Imagine I could hand you a perfect freestanding handstand right now.

No falling, no faceplants, no kicking your feet into the air a gazillion times wondering if you're actually improving or just repeatedly demonstrating the theory of gravity.

You just have a perfect straight-line handstand. Effect...

There's a point in learning an inversion where the wall stops being a prop and becomes a full-blown security blanket you drag everywhere.

You can reliably kick up to it. You can hold your Handstand there. It lets you post your "OMG 30 second handstand hold!!" Insta reels.

And then someone goes, "O...

Let's settle something that has confused a LOT of yoga students:

Is Crane Pose just Crow Pose with straight arms?

Because if you look at the two poses, it certainly seems that way. Same general shape. Same arm-balance-y-ness. Same "why the hell are my feet not on the floor?" energy.

So when your ...

Every time someone tells me they can't step their foot between their hands because they have short arms, I want to ask...

"Who told you that?"

Because it's one of those yoga myths that just keeps getting repeated.

Somewhere along the way, "You have short arms" became the go-to explanation for any...

If you've taken more than a handful of yoga classes, you've almost certainly heard the (probably slightly confusing) cue: "Engage Mula Bandha."

Usually, it arrives right before something that requires a little extra oomph.

Maybe you're setting up for an arm balance. Maybe you're about to kick into...

When I started Yogi Flight School, I thought I was just creating a place where people could learn arm balances.

A place to teach the mechanics, break down poses, and help people stop believing they simply "weren't strong enough."

I never imagined that one day I'd walk into a room full of people wh...

You already have Crow Pose. You know how to balance on your hands. You know how to bring your knees onto your arms and find that little moment where your feet stop feeling quite so attached to the floor.

Then you try One-Legged Crow.

You bring one knee onto your arm, start shifting forward, and su...

When most people think about arm balances they could realistically learn, they usually picture the same handful of poses.

Crow. Headstand. Handstand. Maybe Forearm Stand if they're feeling adventurous.

Beyond that, everything starts looking like someone paused Cirque du Soleil halfway through a pe...

I can teach both tripod and bound headstands in the same class and watch the room split clean down the middle.

Half my students float into bound headstand like they've been doing it their whole lives. The other half wrestle with it for a few minutes, switch to tripod, and immediately go, "Ohhh... t...

You've done thousands of poses. Maybe tens of thousands. But here's a question worth sitting with: do you actually know what's happening inside them?

Most of us learn yoga shape by shape. Down dog, warrior, pigeon, repeat.

Eventually, you hit a ceiling where you've been practicing for years but so...