Wunda Chair Progression

Hi everyone. Amy here teaching a wonder chair to Nicole and Nicole and I did a class on the one to chair two years ago on this chair in this room two years ago or so, year and a half ago. Uh, and Nicole was in her practice. Now she's been studying and going through training and progressing. So that's the whole point. Of course, learning our practice and going through our practices progression. Have a seat. So we have some energy today. The, the, these two women right here.

So we're going to use that. I want you to kind of cultivate your energy that you have within, you use it to our advantage. Go ahead and push the pedal down to start. Um, so when we talk about progression and we talk about pacing, sometimes things need to get quicker for pace improvement. We don't want to sacrifice control of course, or safety or any of that matter. But we do want to feel like we're working and sometimes letting go of the brain and getting embodied. Okay. So I'd like you to put your hands behind you.

Let's open up your collarbone, open up your chest. Just feel the back rib space right here and breathe in for a moment. Exhale, close the spring. We're going to go 10 times up. Inhaling down, exhaling up. Inhaling down. You keep going to count to 10. I want you to fill this up though. Puffier back into my hand. Use these muscles to push into my hand a little bit. There you go. Do you feel that?

Pilates Stance

All the way together. Ankles. Okay, so pretend your feet a little hands. That's what they're doing. They're on the pedal, right? You're holding that pedal in. Inhale, prepare for it. You're going to exhale. Pick the pedal up with your feet. Inhale. Push it down with your feet. Guys exhale, pick it up. Inhale, press it down. There she goes. Yes.

Arches

Let's say nine and hold at the bottom 10 step to your heels now and let's go kind of good old Jeanie and I want you to actually pull this down a little bit. Yes. As you pull that down, you lift up into that shape. Good. Nicole. Exhale the pedal up. Inhale Dow excelling up, right? And again as if you're picking up the pedal just with your heel bones, which have a direct relationship to our hip muscles like you're doing beautifully push and lift who can't sacrifice the height of our spine?

Heels

Tendon Stretch

Step on down and when you stepped down, you're good. Turn it around and face the pedal. Reach your arms up. Take a nice full body, stretch the arms nice and high. Deep Inhale, rounding down and place your hands on your pedal. Okay, cause I'm kind of playful. You guys know that. So you know over this, like you gotta go over that. Now as you push the pedal down, I won't step underneath you. Pretend I am right. So you're going to move that pedal down.

Washer Woman

And again, pushing it down. So kind of delay moving the springs a little bit. Move the pelvis before the springs. There you go. Pause right there. Narrow your elbows for 10 armed pumps. Ready and pump and pump each time before you pump.

Pretend them crawling underneath their Linde. Make sure there's enough space. Exactly. Enough space. Yes. Five more and one and two. Good. Nicole, three and four. Beautiful. Last one. You're going to hold your arms nice and straight. Take a breath. Remember, delay the springs. Pull your pelvis underneath.

Stack each vertebral one at a time. Light hands are going to lift your arms all the way back up. When I want you to do here is this. Lower your arms. Lift him back up again and do one more full washer woman. Just flow all the way through. Just press it down.

Good and bring it back up. Bring the close out of the Bin and then reach your arms back up to the ceiling and then you'll transition to spring in your arms all the way down. Fantastic. Do this with your hands. Every one index, finger thumb plays that diamond shape on the edge of the Mat to the chair pad. A little lower. So you're going to go right on. Yeah, like that edge or, yeah. Now put one knee cap on that, but before you do a kneecap, think of your single leg stretch in the mat. One knee in one Meehan, do just a couple of knee marches, basically this one knee and then change to the other side. So you start to get a feel for this movement, how you advance your foot forward up on either the pedal or up on the chair pad.

Okay. And then pause this one. Whichever one you're going to do and hold that everyone. Hold it. Make your abdominals work. Now keep them active as you put your knee cap right in your diamond and you'll step your foot onto the pedal. The ball of that foot. Exactly. Oh, okay. Now stay in your c curve.

Push your hands onto the chair so you're actually activating your arms and in opposition, activating your stomach away from your arms. That theme, that will come back into class a few times. Okay, so we're trying to square pelvises. It's useful within it. There's a teacher nearby and I want you to move the pedal with your ankle. Press with the ball of the foot and flex and press good and flex. So throughout these pumps you'll do 10 of them. Keep pushing your arms forward and abdominals back.

Achilles Stretch

Tendon Stretch

Yeah. Good. Now step down with your right foot because that was the first one you used. You'll diamond your hands. We're going for the second ankle press. Okay. She sets the knee cap there and get, take a time. Everybody to push with your arms. Pull your stomach back.

Achilles Stretch

What's really nice about Nicole's position, and you guys can, I think you can see this kind of this circle of shape, that the outline. Yeah, it's just a revolving movement. A revolving movement. One more press. Now hold there. Step the second foot up. Move the hands again to the side of the chair. You're up on your high tip toe position. Everyone. Take a moment, contract your butt, hold your butt from, okay. Now the shape here, arms over wrists, nothing changes.

You've got a lot of scoop in your stomach or contraction. Walk in place. Good. So I'm going to have you speed up your tempo and we'll go up and down and up and down, up and down. Focus on the up, the up and the and the up we go and up. Keep going. So we've changed that tempo. Making sure that you still have your arms pushing down because you're gonna need the arm push when you pull your hips up. And just four, three, two and one. Okay, hold right there.

Running

Pull Up

Pike or side pull up. Let's do one hand here. Uh, let's switch them this good. This guy here and this one here. Okay. All right. I would love for Nicole and you all can take your outside leg off and set your feet side by side. Okay. Different. You don't have a floor for this foot, but pretend it's still on the floor. Everything is still the same. I want you to Nicole, round your spine.

Side Pull Up

Push to pull and then push the pedal down. Hold right there. Hold, hold, hold. Now what I want you to do now, I'm springing this on you. Everybody take your outside leg out to the side pretty high. Make your glutes work. Lower the leg down five times. Lift your leg up, lower your leg down, lift your leg up, lower your leg down. Last two lifted up, lower down and lifted and hold it.

Side Leg Lifts

You get to do a pivot turn toward where we don't have a shark sighting today. We might have some dolphins. All right, so same idea. Yeah, the outside foot is just, it's going to be a floater. It's out to the side, but your feet are side by side. You've got this wonderful curves still. Yup. You're pushing first. The pool follows your push. Notice. I don't need to even be near her. She's so connected.

Side Pull Up

Side Leg Lifts

So we're in some glute territory here before we push the pedal. We know that's coming for single press. Challenge yourself to contract first. Your standing leg butts so much that it's just such an easy thing to lift your pedal foot and then put it down. You might even be so into it that you can put your hands behind that thigh and just focus on the standing leg glute and how strong that is.

When you put your foot back down, it's super light and your hands will come here. Good. Five repetitions. Inhale this, spring down. Woo, and exhale it up. High Heel. Inhale. That's the way so it's just as much about our standing leg as it is. This one.

Single Leg Press

Here we go. High Heel. Now before you do, you can lift it right? No problem. Put down, do another one and do so focus like this. You could do that. Good job. Set the foot down, lightly. Fold the arms. You're taking a breath in. As you push it down and you exhale, control it up. If we can stay in a high heel, she did it.

Amazing posture. Nicole, you're right over your leg. You haven't leaned forward. You definitely have an arched yourself back one last time. Pushing down. Good. Lift the foot. Stepping to the ground. Okay. Shake it out. Walking around. I would love for you to have a seat on the chair facing out. Knees can dangle right over the edge. Both knees. Okay, so we're moving into seated side bend.

Get Cozy on the chair or you right in the middle of it there. Yeah, right in the middle of the chair. Okay. So we still are in a heavy spring and I'm using that for two reasons. So there's enough support for you to push the pedal down, but also where you kind of have to muscle a little of the pedal movement and uh, work the control of that spring. It's a lot going on. Raise your right arm up by your ear. Okay. And for a moment, let's allow this shoulder blade to walk its way up. Okay? Yeah. As long. Yeah and no.

Seated Side Bend

I'm going to challenge you to straighten your legs in front of you like a pike. This changes the game a lot. Inhaling. Good. Exhale. So the reaching arm helps reach in the direction we're going. I've got you here. Good. Nicole, that's an inhale. Exhale yourself up. Okay. One more like this.

Grow ever tall. Ever stretched and the legs are shaking. They should be. There's a lot of work going on and he had his body. Good. Bend your knees for just a little moment now. A little, a little extra knees extended. One more thing. Breathe in. Going over to the side. Now you could certainly just stay here, but let's check in. So we, I want you to tip over onto your left hip a little bit so that you have to keep it there. But drop your right hip down, down. There's your stretch. Do that two more times. Lift your hip. Good. Exhale. Lower your head, reaching that arm. That'll help you lift your hip. Excellent. Lower this hip.

Take one more final breath in and exhale yourself all the way up. Okay. We have the other side. Woo. Okay, good. Perfect. Yeah, so the, the leg extension is definitely a lot. And you know, sometimes I'd like start shaking. We've done a lot of quad work, legwork and shakings. Okay. It's all right. All right. We're bodies are alive talking to Ya breeze. Okay. Remember, I'm okay with this shoulder going up. We did it on the first side.

Inhaling here, going over. Yep. No, I'm just going to keep this hip down. I know my friend here, and this is sometimes what I we want to work with. Inhale. Exhale. Bring yourself all the way up. Inhale, grow tall. Even Taller. Yes. Take that height into the side flection. The underside is still reaching along as well. Underneath they're good and all the way up. Two Times, three through legs extended in front of you. Breathing in. She's got an amazing sense of reach here. Yep. Okay. Yeah.

Good. Exhaling up ever long. Yeah. Nice. Right on Nicole. All the way up. Okay. Rest your knees for just a sec. We've got that extra little thing right with the knee and hip lifts. So inhaling, legs go long. Exhaling over or inhale over.

Rolling. Okay, so lift your hip on an inhale. Exhale, set it down. Stretch more. This arch. Inhale, lift it up. Perfect. Exhale, stretch it down heavier. One more to go. Inhale, stretch. Nice concentration. Exhale. Now juice out the inhale. One more. Look at that stretch. Exhaling all the way up and rest.

Woo. Come up and stand facing the chair behind it. Hamstring stretch. Two arms come up high. Good. Exhale. Rounding over. Guess who's here? Yeah, my mom played with me when I say I have a memory of her doing something like that. Uh, anyway, it's fun. Good memory. Okay. We have those springs. Inhale, exhale and pull the springs back in in case, same as, keep going.

Washer Woman Over the Chair