Amanda Powell thank you thoughtful Amanda! It is Caroline S.’s birthday tomorrow (June 26th) and mine is coming up this weekend on June 29th. 🎂

Full agreement with all comments before me. Approach this class with a playful mindset, as the M/ovement ball is a wiggly bug and may or may not stay where you plan as we are lunging knee onto ball and rising up from the ball, and some other wild muscle engagement. I am grateful for the original ball for under my arches (bigger shoe size here) and under my knee, and the smaller M/ovement ball squeezed behind my knee is the perfect size (still hard to keep it there with movement and sweat, but that’s part of the fun and play!). I did this one Live, but look forward to doing again from the catalog with pause/rewind button for when I need to play fetch with my escaping ball. Adding to Favorites for a playful challenge and a all-muscles-activated-neck-to-toes class.

This no-equipment class incorporates beautiful “hover” moments of pause at the top before descending again- LOVED that! We are first sequencing in standing position and the second half of the choreographic flow brings us down to the mat on knee(s) and hand(s). Low-impact with a brief moment to be light and jump. Need room for elongation, extensions (standing and down on the mat), side to side to have a wide stance and a knee-up from your back leg, and room behind for the curtsy position. It’s not just the current heatwave in the mid-Atlantic; this 20 minute class heated me up!

Class begins with warmup- no chit chat before movement. Another gorgeous, effective use of 20 minutes: my heart rate was accelerated, I was sweating, and I definitely feel more energized.

Jumping jacks, grape vine dancing, center twists, jump options and battement choices; plank dances; so much sweat and feeling aliveness in this hour! ETA: I forgot how much I felt my abdominal muscles for the next 2 days following this class. Whew!

I don't revisit this class enough - an oldie but a goodie. Felt wonderful after sitting a lot today at work.

This is wonderful on its own, and would be great to do before a meditation class to be present and calm (like Rye but awake 🐾).

This was a physical, mental, and emotional reset of a class for me. After all of the large and accessory muscle groups awakened and strengthened and some sweat worked up I finished class feeling present and peaceful in my body. I always love the annual Pride theme classes and this was a wonderful way to kick off the challenge! Others have commented on the class well, and the up and down on the mat. Each part felt well-timed; at the barre, on the mat in planky dances, on the mat belly-up. I loved all of the cross-midline-work and the Pilates vibes on the floor.

Revisiting this for the Unshakable You Challenge, and next time my goal is to stay in the fire more than I did this morning. The ending stretches are extra long, starting gracefully at the barre, bringing us down to the mat in a yogic way, and continuing final stretches down on the mat with a beautiful closing words of meditation. Please leave time for that at the end for yourself!

Firey start to the morning! 🌞