Intermediate to Advanced Power Yoga Flow: Wrist and Hand Free
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- No weight in the hands in this intense and fiery strength building power yoga flow. Featuring long holds in tough, strength based standing balances, with fierce core and leg work mixed in.
This flow is challenging, uplifting, and exhilarating. The major, powerful muscles of the body will get an intense workout, but most importantly you’ll build mental strength, courage, and resilience.
Lots of options offered. We cover:
Physical benefits:
✅ A steady, targeted warm up
✅ Core, glutes, and posterior chain activation
✅ Strength based twists to tone and sculpt the waist
✅ Long timings in standing balances to build endurance, feel the burn, and condition the thighs and glutes.
Mental or emotional benefits:
✅ Cultivate focus and concentration
✅ Develop resilience
✅ Learn the ability to stay calm in situations of stress and challenge
✅ Fuel your growth, doing things you didn’t think you could!
This practice is not suitable for beginners. If you're unsure whether this flow is for you, try my other wrist and hands free power yoga videos first. If you feel good in them, then give this one a go!
In love and heroic strength,
James 💜
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Disclaimer
Remember that although yoga and qigong is for everyone, it is up to you as an individual to assess whether you are ready for the class that you have chosen. If you suffer from a specific injury or are managing a condition please remember it is your responsibility to decide if you should practice. If you feel pain or discomfort please stop.
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Just finished this and once again I feel strong, balanced and supercharged! Couldn't have done it without you James. Thank you!
You're welcome Annie so grateful you enjoyed it!
I love this practice. Integrating balance poses with boat work flowing back and forth is genius ❤😊
Thanks Cindy, glad you enjoyed this sequence!
Thank you James for all the wrist free classes. I have osteo arthritis in my thumb joints,. I actually did too many planks, chatarangas and pushups etc during Covid and that wrecked my poor hands forever for basic flow style yoga. Have been enjoying. Your channel for about 2 months.
Oh Linda, I'm so glad you found this community. You still have many options to keep practicing! Be gentle with yourself.
So much love James. So much gratitude 🙏. Namaste 💚🙏
You are so welcome Mary ☺️
Hi James, i just finished yoga with you. Thank you very much for your time. I love this video =)
My pleasure, so happy you enjoyed it ☺️
Finally a hands-free class with good challenge, not too much chatter and a sweet instructor! Looking forward to trying your other classes! 🙂
YAY! Thank you for being here, glad you enjoyed it!
I love all of your practices - so much that I continue to do the wrist free practices although my wrist injury has healed! Fun, thoughtful, calming, and just the right level of difficulty. I credit you with my wintertime mental health! Thank you!
Thank you for Vikki for this beautiful message. Glad to have you here practicing with me. It's still beneficial to give our wrists a break from time to time!
Yet another beautiful practice from James. This is a very strong long hold class that intelligently targets all the major muscle groups as well as generates amazing energy. If you follow it along with James' JRY Intense Vinyasa playlists (available on his website or his spotify) you'll find yourself in a wonderful moving meditation throughout this practice. Thank you again James for everything that you do!
You are very welcome Perez, that playlist sounds beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the supportive practice for increasing balance and strength. You make it feel doable!
You're so welcome Tricia, glad it's been so supportive for you.
Love these classes. My left wrist has needed a break for a long time, and now it is healing.. Thank you!!
So glad to hear this Karen! Thank you💜
Thanks you soooo much James for your videos! ❤❤❤❤ And thanks for your energy, your sense of homour and for making yoga so much fun!! 😍🥰
My pleasure!
Thank you! I thought I would loose my strength recovering from carpal tunnel surgery, but now I found all these amazing hands free, strong practices.. I'm so grateful to you!! Namaste my friend! :)
You're so welcome Stacy 🙏🏻
This is my favorite. Floating and twisting is so fun.
You're so welcome 💜
Thank you so much for all your Wrist free workouts! I am in an arm cast for 6 weeks on those save me from stopping yoga 🧘🏻♂️ ❤
You're so welcome Francine, happy you found these videos, welcome to the community!
I think I've nearly done all your wrist free now and this was my favorite! Your videos are just brilliant and kept me going during my wrist injury thank you so much. I'd love to come to a class with wrists and the works! I bet they're brilliant!
Thank you for practicing with me, glad you enjoyed this class so much, and i'm really grateful to be able to support you during your injury. I hope you can come to a live class one day soon!
This is such an amazing session, and truly a game changer for me. Actually the entire Wrist and Hand Free playlist is amazing. But this one has become a favorite. I found James and this series after- guess what- I injured my wrist, and then injured the other one too from compensating. With my injury and with James I have learned that you do not stop doing yoga with an injury, but you continue, and the yoga helps you heal. Obviously you need to practice carefully and make changes and adjustments. So beautifully done by James. And what's more, like a seeing person that has become blind, you learn new things and to use your body and your senses in new ways. I now have such a deeper understanding of my yoga practice and so many postures learned from the wrist and hand free practice. Had I not injured myself and not gone through this journey, my yoga would not have advanced as much this year, I truly believe. Thank you James for posting your videos, for sharing your incredible talent, and for your kind and warm hearted offerings to the world.
Yay! thanks Ann Marie, ok well noted to do some more really strong hardcore flows then haha! And i love your observation that you can see or learn so many new things through the gateway of injury. Injury sucks, but there can always be a silver lining 😊
Fabulous!! Challenging, fun, creative! Felt great!! Thanks!
AMAZING Barb, thank you for the feedback, love hearing this.
Today marks 365 continuous days of yoga for me, even through hernia surgery recovery. I chose to finish off my year with a more challenging video, this would have made me cry a year ago, lol. What an amazing feeling!! Thank you so much for your hands free videos, they are fantastic, keep em coming! :)
Hi Kelly - wow wow wow! What a commitment! 😳 I wish there was a way I could give you some sort of trophy or prize haha you totally deserve it thats awesome! I mean this genuinely now -its very inspiring to me and makes me so joyful that platforms like youtube can offer people a way to move and breathe and feel good. Much love to you from London England 💜
so grateful for this inspiring sequence. Send you love and peace
Thank you James, really enjoyed this! Perfect amount of flow and holds, traditional and creative. Those pistol squats and full boat poses are killer! Great pacing and instruction too : ) x
You're most welcome Sally! So glad you are enjoying it all, even the squats and boat poses 💜
A truly challenging power practice -- and wrist-free! I have shoulder issues that flare up and I thought that meant I wouldn't be able to do challenging yoga classes anymore, but you have given me such a gift. I'm so grateful to have found your channel. You are creative and kind and encouraging. 🙏🏼
Thank you for these longer held poses. This is a challenging practice but lots of fun! Your space is beautiful, with all the green plants.
Thanks Christine 💜 🙏🏻
Phew 😅!!! Wobble wobble!
Happy Easter 🐣🐰!
Wobbling is all part of the fun! ☀️ 🌿
Too much weight lifting, too much yoga, one thumb is terribly painful. My PT suggested me to find wrist free yoga classes...and here I am ! Absolutely amazing class ; I confess I had to place one hand on the floor for rerverse half moon and sugarcane😉But I like how you teach, my french ears understand you perfectly so...new sub😀
Aww Sorry to hear about the injury Karine. Be gentle with yourself and welcome to the community, happy to have you here! Merci💜
Loved this! Recovering from fractured elbow, as a paddleboard athlete and desperately missing moving over the ocean, your classes, your teaching style are the next best thing! More like this please. So good.
Hope you are recovering bit by bit Ginnie! 💜
I have been using your videos post shoulder labrum surgery and both my surgeon and PT were pleasantly surprised with my recovery that they asked for your channel to refer their patients. Thank you from the bottom of my 💜.
Wow! Thanks so much Megan - thank you for practicing with me here, its really my pleasure to be able to help you on your road to recovery 🙏🏻🌿
This was awesome and hard! I love your sequences, I definitely get stronger doing your power flows!! Thank you so much!!❤
It's certainly a powerful flow, glad you enjoyed it so much.
Another fantastic class. Thank you sooo much. Also: a couple of weeks ago, I was rather overwhelmed with the trickier sections of the flow and long holds. Today, I almost made it through! 🙂
Wonderful Martin, some days feel harder than others and that is ok. Well done for going back to this practice and giving it another go. You should be proud.
Whoa...hands free😅. No joke! Your hands free offerings continue to change me. With my broken wrist just recently cast free and ready for gentle rehab, I keep coming to these practices. Intensity dialled way up, focus on point, body and breath working together to keep me in it! WOWSER!!! Thank you again James. I was so excited to do this class with you today...now I will rest and absorb it all❤🙏
Thanks Denise! So glad to hear you enjoyed it. 🙏🏻 ☀️
Thank you so much for these videos! After getting really into yoga during covid, I had a climbing accident leaving me with a badly broken arm and elbow and nerve damage in my hand meaning I can't use my left arm or hand. Your videos are absolutely perfect and have allowed me to enjoy yoga at a time when I can't do most of my other hobbies. You make it fun and accessible even when it's challenging and my legs/core are burning! Thank you!
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I have shoulder issues so keeping off the wrists makes a huge difference. But this doesn’t sacrifice any intensity by avoiding the wrists- it’s a completely different flow. I’ve had so much tightness in my psoas and hips, despite doing regular yoga and stretching. I feel like the tightness is alleviated after doing these longer holds. It makes sense that I need to strengthen the surrounding, bigger muscles as well. Thanks!
You're welcome Jenn, I'm glad you are finding these classes so beneficial!
Love love love this one!! Thanks for all your videos, Iv been working up my strength and I felt strong throughout this whole session.
So incredible to hear this Alecia, well done!
Loved that! Made the legs burn nicely 🙃
LOL love that! Thanks for practicing with me Adam ☺️
Whoop. Tough one! Thank you 🙏
My pleasure!
I really love this Practice, it´s such a powerful and restoring one. But I also love your Yoga Flows with Elements of Qi Gong❤️❤ Hope to See more of them on your Patreon. You always motivate me 😊
Thank you so much, I'm really glad you resonate and enjoy these practices. I will certainly be adding more yoga with elements of qigong, now that you mentioned it.
I've been training with your "hands free" videos every day for a few weeks now. I am currently struggling with the effects of my cancer treatment. My daily yoga practice, which is now possible thanks to you, is a real “island of joy” for me! Thank you very much for this opportunity! - Yoga works like magic against weakness and pain. Today I dared to make this video. I had watched it before and didn't think I would last. BUT I DID IT !!! AND IT’S EVEN SOMETHING ELEGANT!!! - How much stronger I have already become! And how much my body can do again! Again: THANK YOU, JAMES!!! Your videos are so great! Not only because you are a wonderful yoga teacher and I learn so much from you every day, but also because they are so full of beauty and poetry! It's almost like dancing! (And then I imagine the many thousands of yogis who have started this practice all over the world, all of us practicing your beautiful workout together. And wobbling around and falling over and laughing and sweating together and in the end creating your beautiful poses and flows. .. Beautiful!)
WOW Marie, thank you for this beautiful, thoughtful comment. I'm so grateful these practices have been such an "island of joy" for you during this period of your life. Well done for making it through this practice, it's not an easy one! I absolutely love your imagery of us all practicing together from around the world, what a gift!
@@MoveWithJames Thanks! And thank you for the Links! I am a member now. And very happy! Thanks!
After spending the past year gaining strength and using my wrists again during yoga I returned to your practices purely for the experience and playfulness and oh boy, I really missed your vibes - you are an absolute ray of sunshine James. Thank you once again. I can use my wrists but I will still be enjoying your classes
Thank you Lucy, really appreciate your support and for you being here in this community! I'm so glad your wrists have recovered.
I loved doing this practice, thanks James❤
You're so welcome Helen!
Another amazing class: challenging yet fun. Your words are both soothing and inspirational. James, you are a joy. Thank you.
Thanks so much Sonia 🙏🏻💜
I'm so happy I found your wrist free sessions! I want to work on my core to strengthen it, but that usually involves a lot of weight put on the wrists, which means that I can do a core focus practice every 3 days or so.
With your sessions I can do them every day 🙂
Was a bit nervous about this one as it's intermediate/advanced but did it and felt absolutely great afterwords. Shavasana was bliss. 🙏❤🙏
I had almost given up yoga due to cists in both my wrists, i was sedentary for nearly a year, and your videos with this great vibes reminded me that i can be strong without using my arms and really motivated me move again, feels so good! thank you!!!!!
Wonderful!
Fantastic. Just fantastic. Thank you!
Thank you so much Dana!
I've been doing your hands free practices for a year now, ever since my carpal tunnels gave out. They are magical and healing, and have actually helped me improve my practice across the board -- for one thing, going hands free forces me to use my core a lot more, which is awesome. I'm recovering from surgery on both hands now, and it is a process. Your hands free sequences continue to help me stay as balanced and comfortable as I can be. THANK YOU.
It's my absolute pleasure and I love to hear how supportive these practices have been for you throughout this time. May you continue to heal and recover with ease and grace.
@@MoveWithJames ❤🩹
This practice was the perfect mix of challenging, where I was definitely being pushed by the postures and the holds, with fun, so that the time still flew by! I recently found your channel James and I love your flows (especially the wrist free ones, for days when my wrists need a break), your positivity, and your background with all the plants and pretty lights!!
Wonderful Rachel! I'll keep 'em coming. Your feedback helps keep me motivated to share with you all. Oh and yes! I go weak at the knees for plants and fairy lights haha 😂
Best handfree yoga ever ♥️thank you sir 🙏
You are very welcome, thank you for being here!
Fierce is the word! You have a way about you that eases us into the most challenging poses with panache. Thank you! More please.
Thanks so much Sally! Lots more videos to come 💜 🌿
So very glad I found you…great practice
My pleasure Margaret!
One of my favourites! ✨
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you so so much! Appreciate your support
Wonderful practice, thank you!
Thank you Claudia, it's my pleasure!
One of my favorites!!!
Thanks Barb, grateful you enjoyed this one so much!
Really great strong class! Love!
Glad you liked it Barb!
Thank you James. I really enjoyed the balance work in this practice, allowing plenty of time to adjust, fall out and get back in 😄❤xx
Thank you for the feedback Heather. Happy you enjoyed it!
Thank you! My physiotherapist said I'm almost ready to go back to my usual flows but I don't even want to! Love love love all your wrist free power flows! Turn up the heat and intensity!!!!
Thank you so so much! You can always do half half, our wrists need a break every so often too.
You've got the moves James! I have missed your classes but I am BACK! Thanks for making me feel strong and capable.
You're welcome Kim ☺️ Welcome back!
Brilliant 👌 so grateful for your strong hands free practice.. keeping me sane as I recover. You are an excellent teacher. Really happy to have found you and for getting back on my hands and practicing with you in the future. 💪👍🙏❤️
I never log in to my google account, haven't for years. But I did it just for you, so I could subscribe and like every single one of your videos! I've done all of your yoga videos, and you've gotten me into qigong - which has revolutionized my practice. You're wonderful! Please don't stop! Please, please! lots of love, mwah!
Ah thank you so much! This really means a lot- it’s a total honour to share this practice with you 🌿
Thank you so much for this practice and for your channel in general! I'm going to create a Playlist for favorite practices and this is the first one in it! Love your energy, warmth, vocabulary and humor 😊
Wonderful! Thank you for flowing with me, so grateful you enjoyed it 💜
Thank you! Such a good strong flow, recovery from a elbow injury and this was just what I needed!
Good luck with the healing journey Brooke! often we really do come back stronger than before 🌟
Absolutely fantastic, challenging, and fun practice. Thank you so much for creating this. Looking forward to doing this class again!
Thanks Craig!
Wow what a great workout for wrist free- really enjoyed it! You are amazing James thank you
Thank you for this! This is the class I have been searching for! I am 7 weeks in to a broken hand recovery and not being able to do my usual advanced practice is very sad : ( To find this challenging, longer class was a jackpot! THANK YOU!!
Hi Pip! Hope recovery is getting there, it can be really slow and frustrating though can't it? I'll keep filming these! 💜
Adoro le tue classi wrist free!!❤
Thank you so much.
Another great video, James - the best Easter surprise for me today 😍 I never thought I could like floating half moons, but I actually love them. And one day the pistol squats and me will become friends, too. The poses required quite some strength, but were never too much, especially with the alternative options. This one goes directly into my „yoga favorites“ playlist. Thank you so much for all these shoulder-friendly videos!! 💚🙏🏻
Thanks so much Inga this is so wonderful to read 🙏🏻 💜 so great to have you practicing here with me!
Thank you for wrist free yoga !
Loved this! Thankyou so much
You're so welcome!
This one is spicy! Thanks hands free yoga king!
Glad you liked it! 🔥
I loved this practice! I enjoyed the longer holds, the twists, and the balanced poses! ❤️ And it was challenging but I feel so calm and in a very good place now. Thank you! 🌺 Do you have any wrist free mandala flows? That would be lovely!!! 🌺🌺
Great practice James thank you! Love all the leg, core, and bridge exercises!
Glad you enjoyed the sequence Debora💜
Nice and good balance work
Great to hear you enjoyed it Sophia!
Awesome, Thank you🌼🤍
You’re welcome 😊
Another brilliant class James, thank you! You're teaching me so many new wrist friendly yet challenging moves - I love it! Even though you count to ten soooooooo slowly.... actually I love that about you too!
Hahaha! Those long holds will be worth it I promise! Thanks so much for your kind words 🙏🏻🌿
I have tendonitis in my wrists and I hate that flare-ups have been stopping me from doing more intense yoga practices. Not anymore though! This is going on my "do it until it's not hard anymore" playlist. Thank you James!
Great practice - I love the slower stronger style. Done too many overly fast flows where there's no chance to get form / breathing down. This is the opposite!
Incredible. Thank u.
My pleasure Helen!
This is an amazing flow. I hurt my shoulder in tennis and thought would never be able to do a real yoga again. This flow challenged me and brought me back to life ☺️ Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Great Negar, so wonderful that you enjoyed the session.
great practice! amazing
Thank you Luana, I am happy to hear!
Well, that was more than I bargained for 😅 loving your hands/wrist free videos post my wrist surgery 🙏🏼
Love, love, love this video! I really appreciate your hands-free practices, I find them so much fun! I keep on laughing throughout the video, I REALLY enjoy practising yoga with you, James! :D Please keep on making these videos
Thanks Nadya! Plenty more coming! 😃
The difference you have made to my life is priceless ❤. I was so upset thinking I'd have to stop my daily yoga practice to recover from wrist surgery; then I came across you 😇
Your style of yoga and beautiful personality has been such a pleasure that you will continue to be part of my morning routine for the foreseeable future
I absolutely love your style of teaching.
Thank you xxx
Thank you James, what a sweetie you are. Fun and unpredictable practice, loved it xo
You're so welcome Amelia, thank you for practicing with me!
Absolutely amazing, I can't believe i only found your channel recently. Where were you hiding 👀 ❤
Hiding in the algorithms! So happy to have you here with me Liz 🙏🏻
Wow wow. It’s official folks you can’t be sad while doing this flow. Great work. Great burn 🔥
Thank you again James!! Super, I really enjoy it.
Glad you enjoyed it Sandra! Thank you 🙏🏻 ☀️
Thank you so much James.I been waiting for this one,much love!
Hope you enjoyed it Gina! 🙏🏻 ☀️
Love this class ♥️ Thank You! 🌈♥️
You're so welcome 💜 🌿
Thanks, James🙏 it was very helpful for me and all I needed this morning! Good luck and keep going ✨
Exceptional!! Thank you for another challenging hands-free practice :) Absolutely love my time with you in the morning!!
I love seeing my notifications pop up with new video!! Absolutely love them, you have been the best thing that has happened to me during pandemic quarantine 🧡. Now, something strange has happened in the last two hands free videos. I feel that the transitions have gotten too fast and I find myself always a couple moves behind 🤷🏼♀️ (which is not fun). Not sure if it’s me.... but wanted to put it out there. Much love 🙏🏻
Brilliant sequence ! loved it as usual. will definitely do again when recovered from a Easter egg eating marathon😁Peace from SA
Awesome! Thank you Priscilla
Yes, it was tough but good. Fast transitions! I like the length of class, 40 - 50 minutes is perfect.
Great to hear! Thanks so much 🙏🏻 🌿
I have never sweat so much in any other online yoga class! This one is truly a gem. Your videos are blessing for me to continue my yoga journey after my wrist Tfcc! Bless you, friend 🙏
Thanks Preetika! 🌿🙏🏻
Thank you so much for helping me keep moving through my shoulder injury. I had a wrist injury a few years ago and could only find a few wrist-free videos available on RUclips, so many thanks for adding variety to this much needed practice variation
You’re welcome Carolina 🙏🏻🌿
I like micro details and i really appreciate you making us aware of them. Please tell me why i am having pain in the knees when i do chair pose with the heels lifted? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong as i can do it just fine without the heel raise, your feedback is most appreciated. Thank you for this practice by the way.
Tough but good! 🧘
OMG this class is AMAZING!!! So intense- start to almost finish. I ended up completely soaking wet 😅 I’d love to see more of these types of classes!! Thanks James! 🙏
Wonderful Beia, I will try for more in the near future! Thank you
Thank you for this James. An amazingly strong and great practise. Thank you. 💚🙏🏻
Thank you James another great practice - challenging and energising! Definitely one of my favourites. Certainly got me back in the swing of things after a break from practice. x 🙏
This is so wonderful to read- thanks so much Emma 🙏🏻 ☀️
Whew, that has set me up for the day, thank you for another masterpiece, James! I wobbled a bit more than usual for this one; I'll get the hands free sugar cane on both sides next time, haha!
You got this! ☀️ 🌿
Thank you for all of these hands free videos! I’m a newbie to your channel and a longtime yoga practitioner, but two in-progress tattoo sleeves mean I am repetitively in need of flows that don’t have me rubbing my forearms all over my mat, and your videos have been perfect and challenging!
So happy to help Christie 🙏🏻 💜