DJ Townsel – Yoga for Strength & Flexibility

Description of Yoga for Strength & Flexibility

Ready to tap into your innate power? Join Derrick “DJ” Townsel – former NFL athlete, international yoga instructor, and Orlando-based personal trainer – for this six-week online program that will challenge your body and mind. With weekly drills, stretches, and asana practices, you’ll break a sweat and learn new moves that blend yoga and body-resistance training.

Ultimately, you’ll actually discover that it isn’t important whether you can fully transition from Chair Pose into a Pistol Squat. Because, in this course, DJ creates space for you to contemplate how you stand up to obstacles and redefine your limitations on the mat…and maybe in your life too.

What you will learn in Yoga for Strength & Flexibility

Each week includes strength drills and a 30-minute practice around an essential theme.

Over six weeks with DJ, you’ll tackle the essential themes of strength and flexibility, including balance, mobility, control, power, and endurance. Here’s the breakdown:

• Week 1: Balance – Find physical harmony using isolated single-limb exercises
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Stretch (10 minutes)
  • Practice (30 minutes)
• Week 2: Mobility – Understand your body through movement and fluidity
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Stretch (10 minutes)
  • Practice (30 minutes)
• Week 3: Control – Promote stability through core exercises
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Stretch (10 minutes)
  • Practice (30 minutes)
• Week 4: Power – Harness your energy through explosive and pulsing moves
  • Strength Drill (7 minutes)
  • Strength Drill (4 minutes)
  • Practice (20 minutes)
• Week 5: Endurance – Remix previous exercises as static holds and smooth transitions to create resilience
  • Strength Drill (10 minutes)
  • Strength Drill (6 minutes)
  • Practice (25 minutes)
• Week 6: Unite – Bring all your new moves together, and see where you’ve gained strength and mobility… and where need to stick to the prescription
  • Practice (30 minutes)

About DJ Townsel

Derrick “DJ” Townsel, former NFL athlete, is now an Orlando-based personal trainer, health coach, and yoga instructor. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Derrick was extremely athletic throughout his childhood and adolescence. His God-given talent coupled with all of his hard work and tenacity propelled him to a full scholarship playing football at Murray State University as a 4-year starter, and then on to the NFL with the Houston Texans from 2010-2011.

Following his time with the Houston Texans, 2 other NFL organizations and 2 other professional leagues (AFL and CFL), Derrick found his passion helping others realize their physical and mental potential through personal training.

Inspired by amazing individuals on Instagram, Derrick began practicing yoga in 2012. Not entirely comfortable practicing in public at the time, Derrick became a self-taught yogi in the middle of his living room. He followed online sessions and studied the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects and history of yoga.

Derrick has now become an inspiration to thousands who didn’t think a passion for fitness or yoga could be a possibility for them, mainly men and people of color. Derrick is now a sought-after 200-Hour Certified Yoga Instructor, Acrobatic Yoga Instructor, Certified Personal Trainer, and Level 2 WCO Calisthenics Instructor in Central Florida. In 2019 Derrick earned the title of “Titan” by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on the hit NBC show The Titan Games.

Channeling his West Indian ancestry, always listening to Bob Marley while he practices yoga, and his signature crown of locked hair, Derrick has become known to the yoga community as the “Rasta Yogi.” Remembering where he was born (Miami, FL) and where he spent 6 years of his adolescence (Memphis, TN), Derrick uses the name “Dade2Shelby” to remind him of where his journey started.

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