Class starts at minute mark 4:40. While totally no equipment and good for on-the-go, I chose to grab hand weights for the arm dance (and slowed it down slightly as a result) and I opted for the modification to use my Movement ball behind my lower back during the Pilates crunches. This brings optional jumps, this brings mixes of standing/down on the mat/standing to shake it up and keep it moving. I found myself breathless and sweaty at multiple points during this approximately 50 minute workout, and I feel wonderful afterward.

Twiggy puppifies this entire class with sweetness, playfulness, and naps. This one brings familiar moves in a mindful way of setting them up and re-exploring them even if you’ve done many classes, then adds some awesome choreography combinations. The messages about bringing joy into a healing space, moving through emotions, letting salt water (sweat/tears) heal is a beautiful. While a bright/joyful class, there is a lot of holding space for deep emotions, and invitations to bring it all to the mat. Mention of an optional chair so you have balance support when feet and legs are close together in a plié relevé as well as when doing a standing one leg lift and wrap around stretch, but absolutely no equipment works with space all around your mat (we incorporate leg extensions all around). While equipment-free, I may choose to add hand weights for my second run through this class for added oomph.

This class brought lots of three and four sets of 8 and seemed to focus on standing and down on the mat work. Our time at the barre was very brief (of course still felt the stretch and the sculpt). The choreography felt interlaced and while the moves were not complex, the pace of changes and shifting was fast. I had to grip my ball even tighter behind my knee in table top position as my legs were so sweaty! Loved the celebration words throughout and at the end "I am enough. I always have been, and I always will be." 

Day after: yes my arms are worked, but there are muscles in my back that are VERY awake today, that I previously did not know existed.

Ohhh this Signature had so many hip opening moves (hip tucks and hip circles in every position I can think of) and serious strengthening and sculpting of the legs and glutes. The ab series was fire as others commented (my child told me "I felt your heat!" as he played nearby). The abs were worked throughout class including standing series, but laying on our backs on the mat the crunches incorporated a "figure four" motion that felt different and intense. Marnie's messages throughout class reminds us of what we can do, we can do hard things, and some say training begins when you are at the point you want to stop. The words throughout felt motivating and supportive.

This class reminds you of YOUR power as you build upon it with heavier weights (I used wrist weights + hand weights). We stand, we pulse, we squat, we plank and table top, and we sit on the floor with our core power and weights lifting. It keeps it moving with short rounds of arms up and down, different than our arm dances in Signature classes with lighter weights where we don’t drop our arms (rather this class offers quick moments of reprieve). Twiggie the puppy makes this class even better. 🐾 Happy Marniversary to Faith, Stephanie, and Anahita! HBD to Lizamary!

Detoxifying, energizing, and mood brightening Signature class. Certainly dancey and bouncy, but with moments of pulse and lots of activating leg lifts in choreography. I loved all of the center line twists for detox. Friendly reminder for fellow #mbodyglobalfam with sensitive knees, as Marnie says in this class if your knees are sensitive when we sit on our shins and knees and hover our thighs just a few inches up, try wideneing your feet below you (as she says) and I also use a Marnie tip from other classes where I place the Movement ball in between my knees for added support. Those strategies help me, perhaps they'll help you too!

I loved the shapes we made in this quickie sweaty class! I remember being so pumped up for the upcoming NYC IRL classes happening just after a week from this Live class.

This was such a sweat fest of a sculpty burn-y class (in all the best detoxifying ways possible).

So I didn’t comment on this class when I did it, but I added it to my own “Badass Ballerina” playlist if that’s any indication of how you’ll feel during it.