The headstand can be quite challenging posture for many reasons. When it comes to practicing inversions, it's important to use your head... to make the right decisions, NOT for supporting your bodyweight! Did you know the average human head weighs…
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Connect + Move: FeetUp Online Class Schedule
Busy is better than bored, and boy OH boy have we've been hard at work to make sure our stay-at-home FeetUp community can make the most of their movement practice! Each week, we will post TWO FREE CLASSES on our…
Staying Connected in a Time of Social Distancing
At the time of writing, humanity is facing an incredibly huge obstacle: COVID-19. Borders are closed, people are in quarantine, and stress levels are rising as we face uncertain times. The world as we all know it has been turned…
FeetUp Asana Basics: Warrior I
An incredibly powerful standing pose, Virabhadrasana (pronounced veer-AH-bah-dra-sanna) can build strength while developing flexibility and balance. Although Warrior I may look simple from the outside, there are many angles and forces at play internally. With a little bit of patience…
Pranayama Basics: Enjoy Simple Meditation With a Full Yogic Breath
Similar to meditation, pranayama (that's yoga talk for "the science of breath") can easily be mistaken as complicated because it seems easy on paper but can get quite challenging once you start losing focus. The truth is quite the opposite:…
FeetUp Asana: Downward Facing Dog
Good ol' Downward Facing Dog. A dynamic pose equal parts restful and energetic, inverted and grounded, lengthening and strengthening. When considering the amount of time spent in this pose compared to all others, one could easily argue that Down Dog…
FeetUp Asana Basics: Chair Pose aka Utkatasana
Are you looking for a standing balance pose to help build strength in the legs, length in the back, openness in the shoulders, and stability in the core? Do you like to pretend to sit in a chair without having…
As Above, So Below: Spinal FeetUp Wall Flow
Here is a short sequence that explores how one can translate grounded movement into their inverted poses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6tTK52Mgw Use the lifted cat/cow spinal wave in the beginning to wake up the muscles and listen to your joints (shoulders, elbows, knees,…
How to Assemble Your New FeetUp® Trainer
This quick and straightforward video should offer some helpful guidance for the visual learners who are super excited about making the most out of their new investment.
What Does it Mean to be Ethically Vegan and Why is That Important?
From our very beginning, sustainability been one of FeetUp’s highest priorities. We treat our suppliers fairly, invest back into the communities that support our production, and have carefully crafted an ethically vegan item that contains no animal products. “But what…