09/26/2025
Our community are no strangers to getting upside down🤸🏼✨ From playful headstands to steady handstands, inversions are a chance to shift perspective, build strength, and cultivate trust in your body.
Here are Pure’s top 3 anatomical tips to support your inversion journey:
1. Build a Strong Foundation
Your wrists, shoulders, and core are your base. Strengthen your serratus anterior to protract and stabilize the shoulder blades, and engage your transverse abdominis (deep core) to keep your trunk solid. Think: plank holds, hollow body drills, and scapular push-ups.
2. Find Your Balance Through Alignment
Balance isn’t just strength, it’s stacking joints. In a handstand, your wrists, elbows, and shoulders align vertically, while your ribcage tucks slightly to keep weight centered over your hands. Practice at the wall, focusing on pelvis positioning (posterior tilt) and active legs to lengthen through the kinetic chain.
3. Breathe + Stay Calm
When inverted, your breath becomes your anchor. Diaphragmatic breathing regulates your nervous system and helps maintain stability through the core. A steady inhale lengthens the spine, while an intentional exhale draws the ribcage in, reinforcing balance and calmness even when upside down.
🌟 Bonus Tip: We’re hosting a Handstand Workshop with this October! This progressive series will give you drills, alignment cues, and coaching to help you refine your inversion practice.
