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YogaMonday - Friday, 8:00 am - 9:15 am Pacific
ZOOM Contact to attend! Ash's story: Yoga found me at 18, living on my own for 2 years already, working a few full time jobs, caring for my 2 younger sisters, and grappling with a lifetime of physical, mental, and emotional familial abuse. It was a couple retired from firefighting who started a yoga studio in their home who introduced me to the practice of yoga. After traveling the world giving safety to others the couple settled down to give from home, transforming the entire ground floor of their 2 story home into a yoga studio. All classes were donation based and no one was ever turned away. It was yoga for the sake of yoga. At the end of the year the couple would host a party for the community, pooling all the donations together in a big glass vase and choosing an organization to donate to on behalf of the community. This blew me away at 18, let me tell you. As a young domestic violence survivor I had no clue that people so loving, selfless, kind, and giving even existed. This changed my life and is the inspiration for this class. |
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Stretch and Beginning ContortionAvailable exclusively with the San Francisco Circus Center!
Take class with Ash 5 days a week ranging from Stretch to Beginning Contortion there's nothing standing in your way! View the class schedule here and sign up for your first class today. Use promocode ASHREXTRAINS for $10 off your first class! |
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Private Training OnlineThe most important thing I like to tell all of my prospective private students is my intention as a private instructor. Flexibility training is a very personal experience. The challenge of flexibility, especially contortion training, is not just physical. My intention as a private instructor is not only to act as a professional eye to ensure safety and progress, but also to help hold you accountable to your goals, assist in developing the discipline required for healthy training, and to act as a mental and emotional guide through the training process.
Personalized training programs: All personalized training sessions begin with a 1 hour initial intake and interview. During this time we will discuss your current state of activity, diet, hobbies and habits, availability, goals, limitations, and expectations. We will also move through some simple range of motion exercises to assess your current mobility. With the info we gather during your intake, together we will set smart goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound). Each package includes your 1 hour initial intake, your personalized training program, and 1 hour follow up training session. Additional training, online or in person, sessions available! Private training: One-on-one training specific to your body and your goals. Sessions are typically one hour long and include individualized active flexibility exercises, various stretch techniques, hands on adjustment, active range of motion drills and even massage. All private lessons begin with an initial check in conversation about recent activities, injuries, stress, diet, and things that may impact your ability to train to the best of your ability and focus on your movement. |
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WorkshopsBook a workshop with Ash for your studio, students, or friends!
2 workshop available as a 4 week series. Classes for both workshops begin with a brief Q&A followed by a group warm-up sequence tailored for the students. The majority of class time will be practicing and fine tuning technique, form, strength, and balance. Each class will end with a 10 minute conditioning and cool down. Following classes students will be sent individualized homework designed to meet their specific needs. Students are expected to practice during the week in preparation for the next class. Each week classes and homework will ramp up in technique and strength driving students toward their goals! This 4 weeks series is custom to the needs of the students enrolled and designed with the intention for students to meet their goals. Students are expected to attend all classes and practice outside of class. Adults only. Trust Dropping Back Sometimes the biggest obstacle for dropping back into our back bend is trust - that you will catch yourself, that the ground will be there, that you CAN stand up! In this 4 week series students will meet with Ash Sunday mornings for a 1 hour class to practice and perfect the art of dropping back into a back bend and standing up. Students can expect to learn foundational techniques ranging from traditional contortion to modern acrobatics, yoga, and dance. Students will also be assigned out-of-class work specific to their personal needs with the goal of perfecting this skill by the end of the series. Forearm Stands and T-rex hands! Do your hands swing in and “t-rex” when you practice your forearm back bend or forearm stand?! In this 4 week series students will meet with Ash Sunday mornings for a 1 hour class to drill, practice, and perfect alignment in this coveted pose. Students can expect to learn foundational techniques ranging from traditional contortion to modern acrobatics, and yoga. Students will also be assigned out-of-class work specific to their personal needs with the goal of perfecting this skill by the end of the series. |
Education and Experience
A contortion practice that started by mimicking Cirque du Soleil as a little girl, a yoga practice that guided her as a teenager. As a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, Ash was able to develop her passion for anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. This study of the human body formed the foundation of both her training and teaching. In 2019 Ash worked as Assistant Director & Instructor for Catie Brier's Contortion Intensive, the program in which she once studied.
Training for movement and body awareness is ongoing. Ash has trained with some of the most influential movement professionals in the United States:
Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist 2020
Catie Brier's Contortion Intensive at SF Circus Center 2016 & 2017
200 hour YOGAMAZÉ yoga teacher training with Rocky Heron
Extreme flexibility with Johnathan Nosan's Contorture program
Modern contortion performance with U.S Aerial Championship 2nd runner up Stephanie Bailey
Mindful Contortion with Micah Walters
Mongolian contortionist and coach Serchma Byamba
Has bendy, will travel.
Training for movement and body awareness is ongoing. Ash has trained with some of the most influential movement professionals in the United States:
Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist 2020
Catie Brier's Contortion Intensive at SF Circus Center 2016 & 2017
200 hour YOGAMAZÉ yoga teacher training with Rocky Heron
Extreme flexibility with Johnathan Nosan's Contorture program
Modern contortion performance with U.S Aerial Championship 2nd runner up Stephanie Bailey
Mindful Contortion with Micah Walters
Mongolian contortionist and coach Serchma Byamba
Has bendy, will travel.