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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Twisted But Not Tweaked
This 50-minute class is full of twisting postures put together in an intelligent way, so that the body doesn’t become tweaked. As always, be mindful and be aware, listening closely to what your body tells you.
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Triplets
Triplets is exactly what it sounds. Three times for each pose over this 60 minute Power Vinyasa Slow Flow. Let Rudy guide your exploration of basic yoga poses, but with an increasingly myopic approach with every repetition of each pose. This class is ideal for experienced practitioners looking to...
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Rudy Classic
In yoga, basic doesn’t mean boring, and this class proves it instantly! This is a well rounded power yoga vinyasa practice, which includes some great variations of the Sun Salutations. In addition, we will explore other basic yoga poses that help create vital strength and challenge balance.
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Repetition Plus 1
When you feel like you already know some yoga poses almost too well… It’s time to join this class and discover them anew! Focusing on mindful repetition will be the key to our mastery here. Plus, you’ll get the added benefit of a great core workout!
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To Bind or Not To Bind
To bind or not to bind… That is the question haunting every yoga master. This class is about opening the shoulders, getting into the hips, and the hamstrings. There are a lot of big poses here but be mindful of your skill level. As Rudy is fond of saying “Bind or Never mind!”
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Tigers into Kittens
Time to transform from a roaring tiger into a purring kitten! This unique yin class will empower you with a conscious flow to tame the wild side that we all have!
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The Method
After a week of shooting tons of amazing content taught by our UK instructors, Rudy gets the whole group together for one final class – performed in the classic Rudy style. This strong vinyasa flow will make you sweat… Like it made all of the 50 participants!
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Tested Warrior
This is a 60 minute vinyasa flow class that is designed to help you identify and explore the "edges" of your practice. We will test your physical, emotional, and mental boundaries through longer holds, sequencing, and more complex postures. Before beginning take a moment and to focus your body an...
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Shoulder Hurdle
When it comes to having a healthy, toned physique, shoulders are the key. Moreover, strong and mobile shoulders come in handy in everyday life… And the benefits just keep going. In this practice, we will be working the full range of external and internal rotations of the shoulder girdle. Let’s move!
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Functional Upper Body Strength
As part of the functional flow series, this quick 30 minute vinyasa flow focuses deeply on building upper body strength to maximize our everyday performance. However, make sure to listen to your body and stay cautious of your body’s limitations. Modify and take breaks when you need to.
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Functional Spinal Traction
As part of the functional flow series, these specifically designed movements are intended to help us heal from other athletic activities and provide longevity to our yoga practice by developing strength through spinal traction.
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Fat Seeking Missile
Is there a way to keep the heart happy and weight low? Of course, and here it is! Utilizing Rudy's dynamic crescent sprints, this flow will raise the heart rate, crank the furnace and boost the body's natural HGH release which is a fat-seeking missile.
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Low Altitude
Tired and looking for a healthy way to rewind and stay in shape? Keep it low for some deep, slow stretches with us in this class! You might want to grab a block or a bolster to support you through this particular practice. Perfect to ease your mind and body after a long day at work.
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Lighthouse
Can humans defy gravity? Probably not, but we will try anyway! In this class, we will use simple backbends to counter gravity's effect and to turn the heart's light on. This one-of-a-kind practice will awaken your mind and body to things you never thought were possible!
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Hold Your Hand(Stand)
Are you new to handstands? Start here, as this class will prepare you for turning your world upside down. With clear instructions and precise steps, you will soon become a master of doing headstands with confidence and grace!
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Hips It is
In this one-hour yoga class, we will dive deep into the connective tissue within the hips. Getting deep into the hips is not an easy thing to do, so we will work towards accomplishing it by using modifications along the way. By doing that, you'll experience different shapes of the same pose, as y...
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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!