Enhance Your Yoga Practice with These Chest-Opening Classes
Discover Our Top Classes for Better Posture and Breath
Chest openers are among the most rewarding stretches in yoga, as they help reverse forward-leaning posture and create freedom and space around your heart.
It’s crucial to maintain an open chest, especially if you spend long hours at a desk or are an athlete. Poor posture from hunching over a computer or improper seating can lead to sharp pain between the shoulder blades, tightness in the back, and compromised lung expansion. Activities like weight lifting or strength training can exacerbate these issues by tightening and dehydrating the chest muscles, which may further impair your posture and breath function.
However, there is no need for concern! Our featured classes will help correct rounded shoulders and alleviate upper back pain, leading to improved posture and better breathing.
Ready to improve your posture and breathing? Explore our featured chest-opening classes below.
Open Upper Chest, Shoulders & Spine with Stephanie Snyder
This sequence is ideal for athletes and anyone experiencing tightness in the upper chest, shoulders, and spine. Activities like swimming, weight lifting, and strength training can shorten and tighten these muscles. This class offers a vinyasa-based approach to open the shoulders, chest, and upper back, creating freedom and space around your heart.
Sign up now to experience this transformative practice.
Open Your Upper Body with Jason Crandell
Designed for desk workers, cooks, baby holders, body workers, car commuters—and practically everyone—this 30-minute practice focuses on opening the chest while strengthening the upper back, arms, and neck. It’s a reliable routine for balancing your upper body against the daily challenges of modern life.
Join us today and start your journey to better posture and breath.
Open Up to New Possibilities with Kia Miller
This strong kriya is designed to open your chest and heart, paving the way for new possibilities. It’s an intensive practice, so please proceed at your own pace and modify as needed.
Rhomboid Strength with Tiffany Cruikshank
Emphasizing rhomboid strength, this class cultivates awareness around the back of the heart to enhance chest expansion. It’s particularly useful for those struggling with backbends, as well as those looking to deepen their practice in backbends and chest-opening postures. Sign up now to experience this transformative practice.
Camel Poses Tutorial with Kathryn Budig
Focus on Camel Poses and their variations in this comprehensive tutorial. Begin with a chest opener and progress through two versions of Camel Pose, a Camel drop-back, Pigeon Pose, and two variations of Half Camel. Be prepared to open your heart, and don’t forget to have a block handy.
Rhomboid Flow with Jo Tastula
In this class, you’ll engage the rhomboids to create space and openness in the chest, lungs, and heart. Specific exercises target these muscles to alleviate upper back stiffness and general lethargy. Enjoy a steady flow through sun salutation variations to build strength and flexibility.
