29/09/2025
🛠️ YOGA DRILLS - 1st Session this Thursday!
Its’s recommended that both sessions (Drills for Mobility & Drills for Strength) are completed to enhance your practice.
Thurs 2nd & 16th October 2025, 6.30-7.30pm
Why drills matter:
✨ 1. Build strength for advanced poses
Many yoga poses (like Wheel, Pincha, or arm balances) require not just flexibility, but targeted muscle strength (shoulders, core, glutes, back).
Flows build endurance and mobility, but drills allow you to load specific muscles repeatedly, strengthening them in a way a flow usually doesn’t.
✨ 2. Improve mobility, not just flexibility
Flexibility = passive range of motion.
Mobility = control + strength within that range.
A minute my normal one, please 
Drills (like active shoulder openers, controlled core lifts, or glute activations) help you gain mobility that you can use in asana rather than just “stretch” into.
✨ 3. Develop muscle memory & technique
Repetition trains your nervous system.
Doing a targeted drill (like dolphin push-ups for Pincha) teaches your body the exact pattern of engagement you’ll need when the pose “clicks.”
This shortens the learning curve because your body already knows the pathway.
✨ 4. Injury prevention & longevity
Traditional flows often emphasize moving into shapes without fully preparing supporting muscles.
Drills strengthen stabilisers (rotator cuff, core, glutes) that protect joints and keep your practice sustainable - especially as you layer on more advanced poses.
✨ 5. Fill in the “gaps” of yoga
Classical yoga flows were not designed as strength-training systems.
Drills supplement yoga by adding progressive overload and specificity, which help you build capacity for things like press handstands, deeper backbends, or floating transitions.
✨ 6. Faster progress with measurable results
A flow might open your hips over time, but a targeted hip flexor drill (like active straight leg lifts) will strengthen and lengthen at the same time, giving you more rapid access to splits or strong step-throughs.
