Yoga Warriors: Breaking Boundaries with Rudy Mettia
"Yoga Warriors" challenges you to push beyond limits with strength, resilience, and purpose. With Rudy Mettia’s guidance, students of all levels cultivate physical and mental strength, unlocking confidence and embodying the spirit of a true yoga warrior. Each class is a dose of intelligent sequencing, transitions, and a unique sense of humor, allowing everyone to discover new depths in each posture. The flows inside prove that you can stay safe, and still see massive progress in your daily practice.
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Functional Quads
Quad muscles are vital when it comes to so many sports and activities. This quad focused class focuses on stretching the quadriceps with a specially designed set of exercises. This will be supportive for runners, hikers, cyclists, spinners, dancers and anyone else with quads!
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Functional Hips
In this functional class, we will dive deep into hip-opening movements designed to release tension, increase mobility, and bring ease to the lower body. This practice is ideal for enhancing comfort and freedom of movement in both your yoga practice and daily life!
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Functional Hamstrings
Let’s not forget hamstrings, which support our legs and carry a lot of weight day by day. This functional class will engage them in a series of ways, leading to increased strength and mobility.
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Functional Flexion
It’s time to focus on forward folds, which will benefit our whole upper body. The main two benefits of this class include elongating the spine and engaging the core. And the additional pros? Functional flexion and a great tension relief!
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Functional Extension
Activate the whole body using the power of extensions. By doing this, we will improve our flexibility, posture, and range of motion. This class will pay dividends in everyday life, creating space and strength from head to toe.
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Energetic Surge
Intense exercise results in sweating, and sweating offers plenty of healthy benefits. If you were looking to sweat, you just found the right practice. With unique and fun sequencing, we will move non-stop for 60-minutes leaving you both “pranafied” and satisfied.
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Dynamic Flow
It’s high time we awaken all of our muscles that have been “asleep” for too long. We're going to do a lot of movement, finding new muscular engagement from each joint position through the full range of motion, from one asana to the next. Let’s begin!
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Chairway to Heaven
Do you like the chair pose? Hopefully, because this class will be all about it! But to make things a little bit more interesting, we will do it on one leg… May seem hard at first, but you’ll love it at the end!
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Repetition and Then Some
Repetition is the ultimate key to forging good habits. In order to discover the truth of the poses we practice, we need to do them over and over. But don’t be afraid – the more we remove our own resistance, the closer we are to perfection. Tune in and get to know your body like never before!
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Power Squat
Ever dreamed of being a downhill racer, passing through epic landscapes with ease? This class is the right one for you, featuring a posture that will make you feel in motion like never before. New sensations in a safe environment guaranteed!
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Pace with Grace
The truth is, there’s no right or wrong way to practice yoga… But there’s just something very appealing about a person who performs every move with ease and effortlessness. This class is all about finding that grace in the practice - smooth, flowing, and elegant. Join and see whether this is the ...
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Hip Hip Hooray
Do legs and shoulders go hand in hand? Yes they do, and this class is the one-of-a-kind proof! This sequence does two things at the same time, namely builds leg strength and helps with shoulder flexibility. Tune in and feel the difference afterwards!
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Functional Shoulders
As part of the functional series, without the desire to overdo it, this class is going to focus directly on the shoulders. Through extensive stretching and building strength, this unique flow will help us stay mobile and strong in our everyday life.
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Versatile Warrior
The ability to meet different challenges is a skill we could all use in this fast-paced modern life. This class will throw a little bit of everything at you; we encourage you to notice how you react to different poses and sections as you flow through the class. Maybe you love long-hold poses, bal...
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Stalking Warrior
This class is all about “stalking” yourself – cultivating that one-pointed focus that drives you to discover yourself and to stay true to your vision. Here, we will focus on the core – the epicenter of your willpower – and how to move in true alignment. Rudy will teach you to raise your ‘hip poin...
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Seeking Warrior
This class carries you through what appears to be a typical Vinyasa flow, but with a decidedly more inward-looking intention. Rudy will walk you through what he calls the Five Doorways (Focus, Awareness, Consciousness, Imagination, Manifestation), which is fundamental to his teaching. It is a con...
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One More Time
There’s an age-old saying that practice makes perfect… Well’ it’s more than true for all the yogis out there as well! Peeling away the layers of resistance as you would peel the layers of an onion… We use repetition to incrementally arrive at the truth of the posture thus the moment.
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Morning Quickie
Morning coffee or a quick yoga session to kickstart the day? You’ve probably tried coffee before, so we may as well try some energizing yoga this time! This is a slow, sweet 30-minute vinyasa flow to wake you up and get you out the door “feeling flowy” for the rest of the day. Enjoy!
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Lucy In the Sky
It’s more than common to feel tension or even discomfort in the shoulders after a whole day of being busy and working… In this methodically designed class, we will explore how freeing the shoulders and hips leads to expressing the heart in Eka Pada (Lucy) Urdhva Dandasana and Natarajasana. Try th...
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Functional Rotation
Our spine feels way better when it has a solid range of motion. And the best way to do that? Is through twisting and “rotation exploration”, which helps increase mobility and release any leftover tension. We will learn how to do that right here and right now!
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Hip Enough?
Here, we will take a closer look at our joints and bones for ultimate holistic wellness and mobility. This is a unique hip-centric practice for the largest joint and bones of the body, which will make sure everything keeps running smoothly.
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Head and Shoulders
When it comes to the health of our shoulders, there are at least three different components. That’s strength, flexibility and full range of motion. Ideally, we need all of them in balance. And fortunately, this class focuses on the external and internal rotation of the shoulder joints to help ach...
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Functional Yin
TIme for yet another batch of functional movements that empower the body to stay strong and mobile. Here, we will take a deep dive into long, intense stretches that help our joints feel better and function more efficiently.
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Functional Core
Expect a 30-minute vinyasa flow with a strong emphasis on the core. We will explore the front body's relationship to the back body and all that's in between… Which will empower the whole upper body in just half an hour!