Briohny Smyth – Let Go

It can be difficult to deal with the stressors of our daily lives while still expressing ourselves artistically and creatively. This restorative yoga class will help you release these feelings and habitual tensions by using flows and breathing exercises. You’ll be empowered to create a sacred space where you can let go of worry, fear and anxiety to become more peaceful and present. This restorative yoga at home course will help you:

• Boost your mood
• Increase your energy
• Release tension where you hold it most: the neck, shoulders, back body, hamstrings and hips
• Let go of negative mental energy

Briohny Smyth is one of the most renowned yoga instructors in the world. She’s best known for her signature Fit Flow classes, as well as her dedication to practicing self-care to achieve better health. She found her own path toward healing, health and purpose after ongoing struggles with body image. Becoming a mother led her to share her passion for yoga with others and begin her lifelong journey of teaching. Briohny will instruct you in:

• Inversions and arm balances
• Fun and invigorating flows
• Alignment exercises
• Feel-good poses
• Breathing techniques and guided meditation
• Supported postures

What You’ll Learn In Let Go

Workout Descriptions:

• Let Go Express
  This quick, 15-minute practice will help you create space in the body and relieve tension to calm the mind.
• Feel good
  For busy bodies and minds, open movement is key. Use this quick practice to move through a variety of “feel-good” restorative yoga poses that will help release unneeded tension from your body and mind. You’ll leave the mat feeling refreshed.
• Release
  Thinking or worrying too much can manifest as tension in your body. Through this practice, you will discover how to reduce mental tension and stiffness around your neck and shoulders.
• Sleep Well
  Although the mind can be busy during the day, it’s important to learn how to relax to get a peaceful night’s sleep. In this yoga for better sleep practice, we will use supported yoga poses to help our bodies relax, and yoga breathing exercises and guided meditation to help teach our minds to relax, and ultimately help you fall asleep.
• Be Present
  This yoga practice is designed for anyone who would like to awaken the world around them. We’ll use strong yoga poses, breath work and short-guided meditation to open our eyes and hearts to appreciate where we are right now.
• Stress Relief
  Emotional stress can manifest physically as tension in our neck, shoulders, low back and even our legs. This restorative yoga for stress class focuses on supported postures that help lengthen tight muscles and create space in your body and your mind to relieve stress.
• Anxiety Buster
  Anxiety appears in our minds when we allow fear and worry to take over, causing physical tension in the body. Through this restorative yoga for anxiety class, we will attempt to soothe anxiety through a grounding practice that helps you feel strong and confident in your body and mind.
• Fearless
  Although fear can come in many forms, there are tools to deal with it. In this class, we focus on combating fear with easy yoga inversions.

About Briohny Smyth

Briohny Smyth is best known for her love of inversions and arm balances. She shared her passion with over 8 million viewers in her Equinox videos “The Contortionist” and “The Balancing Act,” which sparked significant conversation in and around the yoga community. Her dedication to her practice shines through in her signature Fit Flow classes; a blend of fun and invigorating flow and eye opening alignment instruction.

Briohny was a child pop star in Asia with a platinum album by the age of 13. In 1999, after years of Anorexia and Bulimia, she found Yoga in Thailand as a way to practice self-care and begin a journey towards good health. After the birth of her daughter in 2004, she decided to embark on the life long journey of sharing her passion for Yoga. Briohny mentored with Annie Carpenter and Lisa Walford at YogaWorks and is certified 500 E-RYT.

Briohny has shared her journey and story as a contributing writer for MindBodyGreen, ElephantJournal, The Huffington Post, and QBlog. She has graced the cover of Women’s Health Thailand, Yoga Journal Thailand, and LA Yoga.

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