Core Conditioning

Course Overview

If you struggle with any of the following:

• tripping over your feet when you turn
• losing your balance
• feeling like your poi are getting away from you
• under leg movements
• behind the back weaves
• back bends
• kicks
• leg lifts
• over head movements
• balance moves

and you don't know what to do, then join us for this fun way to get in an awesome core conditioning poi workout. This drop in class is a 30 minute meditation class consists of drills for to assist with the aforementioned challenges. The class will also do core exercises to help develop the artists connection to their center, thereby improving their balance and ability to control the poi.

Core conditioning drills will be offered for the following moves and combinations:

• wall plane weaves
• barrel rolls
• anti spin barrel rolls
• same and split direction flowers
• spin, antispin and hybrid flowers
• isolations
• stalls
• wraps
• short poi work
• extended poi work
• archer weaves
• buzzsaws
• behind the back weaves
• waist wraps
• glitter needle turns
• under leg moves
• split direction weaves
• polyrhythmic movement
• polyrhythmic isolations

and students may request drills for any other move or combination of their choice.

This meditation class is designed to be repeated as the curriculum varies each session based on the students needs.

To maximize the value of these classes, class size is small (6 or less) and each student receives individual focus from the instructors. Each of the classes meets for 80 minutes.

Prerequisites

Students must know 80% of the movements described above.