HANDSTANDS & INVERSIONS

Have you ever watched someone seamlessly move into a handstand and balance for what could feel like a lifetime with unwavering concentration and focus? 

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What a powerful experience to be able to control and guide one’s physical frame through three-dimensional space with such ease and precision. 

 

Handstands and inversion practices involve so much more than being upside down: to find actual value and progression, you’ll need more than just a wall and some hopeful ambition.

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There are innumerable physical benefits to learning to invert your body and control it through space, including balance, spatial awareness, strong and coordinated wrists, arms and shoulders and a connected, powerful core. Not only that, the mental clarity and concentration-building benefits of the practice are tremendous.

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By learning to invert our bodies, we invert our perspectives, we invert our consciousness and allow ourselves to witness and experience reality, quite literally, upside-down. This can be a powerful tool for thinking and contemplation: to invert oneself and shift one’s perspective. To flip our default perspective on its head and consider that reality may not be quite as we once viewed it. We build a new framework for thinking about things…