Is your digestion feeling sluggish or out of sync after the holidays? I invite you to join me for The Motility Method: Yoga for a Healthy Gut! In this class, we go beyond standard stretches to focus on the science of digestive health. Through a sequence of targeted twists, gentle compressions, and rhythmic movements, we will physically massage the internal organs to encourage natural motility and peristalsis. We’ll also use calming breathwork to activate your "rest and digest" mode, helping to ease bloating and stress-related digestive tension. Learn poses that physically stimulate gastrointestinal circulation, discover breathing techniques to tone your vagus nerve, and create space for a happier, more balanced digestive system - all from the comfort of home!

We often blame a lack of strength for why Downward Facing Dog feels so difficult. In reality, mobility and flexibility play a far larger role. When your shoulders and upper spine are restricted, you aren't just fighting gravity—you’re fighting your own body’s resistance. This therapeutic class shifts the focus from "muscling through" to opening the shoulder girdle systematically. By improving your range of motion, the pose becomes more functional and far less exhausting. Whether you are recovering from an injury or just starting out, we meet you exactly where you are. This is a therapeutic space for shoulders of all conditions—from "office tension" to chronic stiffness. No Downward Dog experience required. Come as you are, and learn to move with ease.

Blood Pressure Balance through Yoga Fine Tune Your Inner Engine Science shows that yoga is a powerhouse for heart health and blood pressure regulation. But like a car engine, your heart needs to be able to shift gears—powering up when you need it and cooling down to a healthy baseline for recovery. Join me online for this unique class designed to optimize your "heart potential." We’ll use breathwork to exercise your heart rate, deep stretching to unlock your breathing muscles, and fascial release to de-adhere tension around the chest. Join me online to get regulated, get relaxed, and get back in tune with your heart’s natural rhythm!

In today’s modern world, we have become a chair-bound society. Between the morning commute, hours at a desk, and winding down on the couch, the average North American spends up to 13 hours a day seated—far more than our bodies were ever designed to endure. This prolonged sitting physically shortens the fascia, muscles, and ligaments along the front of the spine and hips. Over time, this "shortening" leads to lumbar disc compression, chronic hip tightness, locked SI joints, and that all-too-familiar ache in the neck and shoulders. Since we can't always change our schedules, we must change how we care for our bodies. The Un-Chair Class is specifically designed to offset the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Through targeted stretching and fascial release, we will mobilize and rehydrate the tissues chronically affected by sitting. Join us to undo the workday and reclaim a healthy, balanced body.

Having a stressful week? Suffering from anxiety or having a hard time feeling settled and calm? Maybe it’s time for a nervous system reset! Through a specialized blend of yogic breathing, gentle therapeutic stretching, and meditation, we target the physiological roots of tension to quiet the mind and settle the spirit. By slowing down the pace of our practice and focusing on the vagus nerve and spinal health, this class creates the essential internal environment for deep peace and cellular relaxation. Whether you are navigating a demanding week or chronic overwhelm, you will leave with a profound sense of calm and the practical mindfulness tools needed to maintain a balanced nervous system in your daily life.

The health of our ribs affects absolutely everything in our body! In today’s class we will take a deep, therapeutic look at the function and health of our ribcage and its many interactions with our neck. We will seek to decompress, mobilize, and balance the tensions and forces that stabilize and move our ribcage, in turn balancing the tension forces that affect the alignment of our neck, as well as the movement possibilities for our lower back. We will hydrate and mobilize our fascia, improve space for healthy breathing, stretch and release our upper back, chest, shoulders, and neck, and leave class feeling open, vibrant, and balanced!

Join me for a class dedicated entirely towards the liberation of our hips! In this class we will explore all of the ranges of motion available to our hips, stretching and mobilizing within each of these options. Hip care is essential to how we feel, how we move, and very importantly, how we age. If cared for correctly and consistently, our hips have an incredible capacity to repair themselves, even when they are experiencing incredible levels of pain and restriction. The key is in the process - how we approach our self-care, and how we meet our hips where they are at. Through mindful stretching, even the most painful hip joint can be taught to move and feel better. In this class we will explore techniques that are proven to work and will discuss how to adjust each technique to help give your unique hips what they need to repair and restore, and become healthy, happy, hips again!

Whether you're an athlete or someone dealing with daily aches, understanding your shoulder health is the first step toward recovery. Although conditions like rotator cuff tears, tendonitis, impingements, and frozen shoulder manifest differently, they often share a single underlying cause: myofascial dysfunction. Your shoulder is the most mobile joint in your body, held together by an intricate web of connective tissue called fascia. When the shoulder girdle falls out of alignment—whether due to poor posture, repetitive stress, or old injuries—the fascial web is forced to adapt, shortening in some areas, lengthening in others, weakening or excessively straining, and throwing the entire girdle into chaos. Through fascial rolling and gentle stretching, you will learn to release your way around your shoulder joint and begin to understand the what’s and why’s behind your shoulder pain so you can help your body do what it was designed to do: HEAL!

This class focuses on balancing stability and release with a goal to address lower back discomfort through an integrative approach that prioritizes structural support. Explore fascial release techniques to hydrate the connective tissue of the glutes and hips, aiming to break the cycle of muscular guarding that can irritate your SI joints and cause pain in your back. Experience gentle mobility exercises that emphasize symmetrical pelvic movements to help restore natural alignment without overstretching vulnerable ligaments. Create relief through spinal decompression to alleviate pressure on your lumbar discs and sacrum. Finally, we'll finish it off with some gentle stretching to promote release and create the space needed to supporting long-term lower back health.

We’ve previously explored the inner and outer knee, but in this session, we investigate the often-overlooked front and back compartments. The knee joint requires balance between the complex ranges of motion happening at the hip and ankle. Discover how imbalances above and below can create joint strain. Through mindful movement and targeted yoga poses, we will explore specific triggers in the front and back of the knee, helping you cultivate "happy knees" and balanced forces. Join me for this class to deepen your knowledge and ease your pain!

Do you get pain in your lower back or hips? Pain after a long walk or first thing in the morning when you get out of bed? Do you struggle with pelvic alignment or mobility? Are you looking to improve and protect your posture as you age? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class is for you! If you get pain anywhere in your lower back, pelvic, or hip regions, this class will show you tested and effective ways to improve the situation and with it, your health! Learn to balance and mobilize your joints in a way that will improve your alignment and posture, and create the environment for healing and productive progress in some of the body's most crucial joints. When the pelvis is balanced and aligned, the rest of the body has an easy time following suit. When the pelvis is out of balance, not only do we experience pain, but also enhanced wear and tear that increases the aging process in the joints we use to keep us mobile and out enjoying life! Join me in this class as we take both a restorative and preventative approach to caring for our SI Joints, Hips, and Health!

Our knees play a critical role in mobility and share an intimate connection with our feet and hips, continuously navigating the complex ranges of motion which happen above at the hip, and below at the ankle, while trying to create aligned action through a much less diverse hinge we call the knee. When the forces from above and below are balanced, we tend to see happy knees. When certain things go out of balance, we experience joint strain, wear and tear, and the ability to easily 'tweak' things into pain and inflammation. In this class we will look specifically at the relationships which tend to cause pain, strain, and injury to the lateral (outer) side of our knees, assessing what may be causing our pain, and learning to heal and prevent future damage.

What do diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive problems, immune conditions, chronic pain, low libido or sexual dysfunction, stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma all have in common? This spread of disorders covers such a wide variety of humanity’s most common health conditions that it’s hard to consider them all being in some way connected. However, in reality, they all share a common source point – they are all symptoms of a dis-regulated autonomic nervous system! Our autonomic nervous system refers to the part of our nervous system which regulates all of our involuntary or unconscious body processes such as our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, digestion, and sexual arousal, as well as the well-known phenomenon of our stress response / threat detection system which enables us to fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn in response to danger, real or perceived. When our autonomic nervous system is well regulated, we can navigate through life’s many stresses in a way that allows us to stay calm, clear, and in a healthy physical state which allows our organs to get plenty of cleansing and repair time. When we begin to get stuck in mental habits of chronic fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn responses, our internal systems and organs become negatively affected. They rely on calm, safe, and restful moments in order to complete their own repair, cleansing, integration, and maintenance. Whether we’re talking about repairing injured tissues, digesting food, fighting and preventing disease, rejuvenating our energy reserves, or experiencing a state of inner peace and tranquility without a well regulated autonomic nervous system we will face growing issues in one or all of these categories at some point! Join me for this polyvagal theory informed class where we learn to understand how our nervous system functions, how it relates to both physical and mental health, and most importantly, how to improve your own autonomic tone and take control of your health and your life!

Our knees play a critical role in mobility and share an intimate connection with our feet and hips, continuously navigating the complex ranges of motion which happen above at the hip, and below at the ankle, while trying to create aligned action through a much less diverse hinge we call the knee. When the forces from above and below are balanced, we tend to see happy knees. When certain things go out of balance, we experience joint strain, wear and tear, and the ability to easily 'tweak' things into pain and inflammation. In this class we will specifically look at the inner side of the knee and what causes pain and damage here. Not only how to care for an injured inner knee, but also how to give it what it needs to get back on track, and heal the hidden causes that made it susceptible to injury in the first place!

Sleep is critical element of human health and wellness and it is a far more active process than most realize! During our sleep cycle we repair damaged tissues and heal the body, regenerate our cellular structures, boost our immune system, clean out our systems and detox, produce large number of anti-inflammatory proteins, rest our heart, consolidate our memories, recharge our brain, balance our hormones, and reduce stress in the mind and body. So what happens when we don't get enough quality sleep? Well, not only do we feel the lack of energy provided by good rest, but we become much more prone to injury, pain, disease, and mental health disorders as these systems fail to receive the time needed for their maintenance and repair. Sleeping better is one of the single best things you can do to improve your over all health! Join me for this class where we experience yogic breathing techniques which calm us down, mindfulness techniques which clear our minds, and stretches and postures to unwind our bodies and get us ready to rest and enjoy a good night's sleep!

As yoga practitioner's around the world and throughout all ages could tell you, regular yoga practice dramatically increases one's sense of vitality, vibrancy, and energetic output. As modern research shows, this is not just a 'felt' phenomenon, but actually a result of how the postures and breathwork of yoga affect our internal systems, their inner harmony, and their health. Among the many benefits which result in this energetic enhancement, is the affect of yoga on our metabolism. Metabolism is the process by which the body's cells convert food and drink into energy, a process that requires constant chemical reactions to keep you alive and functioning. This includes everything from breathing, circulating blood, and regulating body temperature to growing, thinking, and eliminating waste. Our metabolic processes both break down molecules to release energy, as well as create the molecules needed to sustain life. When our metabolism is healthy, we see benefits not just at our waist line, but also in the vibrancy of our internal systems, and in the increased energy we generate to fuel our day! Join me in this therapeutic exploration as we learn best yogic techniques to boost and balance your metabolic health!

Welcome to SI Joints & Hips - the Therapy Ball Edition! In this class we continue to explore ways to connect with our bodies and find the areas that may be contributing to pain in your hips, SI Joints, or lower back. Today we dedicate the entire class to fascial rolling techniques, loosening all the way around the pelvic crest, back to front. From back pain or injury, to pelvic misalignment, chronic deep hip pain, sciliosis, pelvic or abdominal surgery, c-sections, and inflammatory digestive conditions, there is one common theme which all of these things share - adhesion and scar tissue! Scar tissue and adhesions happen where the fascial network of the body has either been damaged, badly inflamed, cut, dehydrated, excessively compressed, over lengthened, or any combination of. These adhesions restrict healthy pelvic movement and can often be the hidden cause of pain which manifests in other areas of the body. I invite you to give this sequence a try. If you make it through without a single sore spot or wincy pain face, then you know your pelvis is in top notch shape! If not, don't worry, repeat this class regularly and one day it will get there!

Do you get pain in your shoulders or upper back? Do you feel pinchy sensations in the joint when you go to lift your arms up? Do you experience weakness, or a slow recovery from shoulder exercises? Do you use your arms regularly throughout the day? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are likely in need of some shoulder repair and maintenance! The human shoulder is and incredibly complex joint, and in this class we will take a multifaceted approach to it's care, learning how to decompress and realign the joints, hydrate and repair their fascia and musculature, and mobilize and balance their range of motion. When our shoulders are healthy and mobile, our upper back and neck can relax, our ribcage can function better, and we can enjoy the enhanced vibrancy and enjoyment that only happy shoulders can provide! Join me for this upper body exploration and learn what yoga therapy can do for your shoulders and your life!

Mental health is a crucial component for human well-being, influencing how we think, feel, and act. It plays a significant role in our relationships, productivity, physical health and affects how we handle stress, relate to others, and make decisions. Mental health is the single most important element in our overall wellness and vitality, and yet an overwhelming amount of people struggle in this area and fail to find the inner peace they need and deserve. In this class we will discuss yogic techniques, philosophies, and strategies which will help you to become the master of your own mind, and the creator of a healthier and happier future you!

Are you experiencing tightness, stiffness, or discomfort in your hips? This virtual yoga class, "Holistic Hips," offers a balanced approach to healing and releasing tension in this crucial area of your body. Taught by experienced yoga therapist, Erin Jacob, this online class is designed to address the root causes of hip pain, promoting lasting relief and greater freedom of movement. Addressing your hips from a holistic perspective is essential for long-term health and well-being. A purely mechanistic approach may offer temporary relief, but it often fails to address the underlying causes of pain and stiffness. By embracing a holistic approach, you can find greater ease in your body and a deeper connection to yourself. Try this class and start your journey toward happier, healthier hips!

Join me for a class dedicated to celebrating and nourishing the most solid and fundamental element of our bodies - our skeletal structure! In this class we will discuss some interesting concepts about your bones and joints, their make-up, their repair processes, and their needs. Learn to prevent and care for arthritis and osteoporosis as we explore stretches, strengthening, and mobility exercises to improve your bone density, health, and happiness!

When was the last time you used your feet? When was the last time you prioritized their care? (Pedicures and washing aside, that is) The average person takes over 200 million steps in a lifetime - an immense amount of useage which carries us a very far way in life. Your feet contain more bones, joints, and ligaments than any other part of your body, and they play a critical role in mobility, balance, agility, stability, and environmental and situational awareness. Strong healthy feet are the foundation for everything else which possible in human movement, alignment, and connectivity. So, when was the last time you gave them the care and attention they deserve? Join me for this foot fixer journey and learn how to get the most of your feet now, and in the future!

SI Joints & Hips’ is our most popular and often requested class topic. Since so many of us or working on this area as a top priority in our wellness routines, I like to dedicate numerous videos to the topic so we can keep learning new perspectives, insights, and inspirations as we continue to give our SI Joints and Hips the care they need and deserve! This class will teach you to understand where your SI Joints are and how they function, and will allow you to explore and consider an important question: Can your SI Joints move through their full range of motion? We will explore techniques to stabilize, decompress, mobilize, and repair the key areas that affect SI Joint and hip function in a routine that can be repeated regularly for maximum benefit!

Join me for a day dedicated to the maintenance and improved function of our knees, IT bands and upper thing musculature, and our hips. Through a combination of fascial rolling, long hold stretching, stabilizing techniques, and accessible anatomy concepts, this class will give you key insights into what is happening in your own knees, how you can improve pain and restore / maintain healthy mobility and strength, and why your IT bands and hips are important in the process of caring for your knees!

The diaphragm is a dome shaped muscle at the base of your ribcage which separates your lung cavity from your abdominal cavity and functions as your primary muscle of respiration, controlling over 75% of your capacity to breath. Since breathing is our most vital function, we can immediately appreciate how important the diaphragm is to living life! However, your diaphragm allows you to do more than just breath. It also acts as part of our body's core support system, helping to control our posture, it aids in digestive processes, mobilizes your abdominal organs, helps your kidneys filter toxins, controls internal pressure, prevents acid reflux, aids in lymphatic movement, and helps to control tone in our parasympathetic nervous system. This single muscle is the master of many important body functions, and yet it rarely receives the attention or care it deserves! In this class we will learn to strengthen, stretch, and mobilize this critical muscle, as well as exploring ways to remove fascial adhesions, increase efficiency, and repair any areas that have opportunities for better health and diaphragmatic happiness. This class will leave you feeling more relaxed, more alive, and more connected to your breath and the possibilities it brings to life!

In this class, we return to the basics and do, in Erin's opinion, one of the most important routines needed in maintaining full body health - stretching the '6 directions of the spine.' Join us as we explore the natural functions and ranges of movement which indicate a healthy spine, learn to detect and understand where our spinal tension is out of balance, explore ways to rebalance and repair it's tissues, discs, and nerves, and find relief in the knowledge that even severe spinal damage can be improved or healed. Learn this simple and effective process of spinal restoration and help get your spine back on track so you can live your best and healthiest life!

Your hips and their movements are not isolated experiences within your body. In reality, every movement of the hip joint requires movement of the both the pelvic bones and their associated sacro-illiac joints (which connect your hips and pelvis to your spine.) As such your hips are greater than the sum of their parts in the fact that they are part of a much broader system. Like all systems based approaches, improving the functional efficiency of each individual part will, in turn, improve the function and efficiency of the whole. When our hips are stiff, inflexible, or injured, we require more energetic and muscular effort to move or stabilize our body. When the tissues surrounding our hips are flexible and easy to move, we can accomplish the same tasks with less effort and resistance, increasing our pelvic efficiency, reducing strain and fatigue, and improving all elements of our mobility! Join me for this Hiponomics class which will give your hips, pelvis, and entire self more freedom to move and enjoy life!

The health of our ribs affects absolutely everything in our body! In today’s class we will take a deep, therapeutic look at the function and health of our ribcage and its many interactions with our neck. We will seek to decompress, mobilize, and balance the tensions and forces that stabilize and move our ribcage, in turn balancing the tension forces that affect the alignment of our neck, as well as the movement possibilities for our lower back. We will hydrate and mobilize our fascia, improve space for healthy breathing, stretch and release our upper back, chest, shoulders, and neck, and leave class feeling open, vibrant, and balanced!