Matt Giordano

Matt Giordano Providing you with Monthly Online Yoga Immersions, Teacher Trainings and continued education courses

11/20/2025

1. Forehead on the blocks
2. Chest on the blocks

👉 to fly you need to shift your weight out of your back foot and into your fingers AKA shift forward. Here you can see just how much I lean because I started with my forehead and ended with my chest on blocks

📣 Announcement: “Flying Hip Openers” 10 class online immersion focused on arm balance techniques 👉 registration now open

🌴 Costa Rica Retreat May 2-9th

11/14/2025

🙋‍♂️Anatomy vs Imagery. As yall know I lean heavy on sharing anatomy tips on social media, however there are solid benefits to Imagery. For example moving like water evokes a different quality then moving like wind. Different muscles contract in ways that fast track you through what would otherwise require years of bio-mechanics and anatomy.

What’s your experience, have you used imagery for your movement? 👇

ℹ️The Fire Line vs The Air Line, these are part of a series I Call Kinesio-Elemental Lines that I teach in my online 300 hour training.

🌴 May 2-9 Costa Rica Retreat

11/12/2025

Active vs. Passive Twists. Most often if you aren’t sure which you are doing than it’s passive.

👉The easier method to get into a pose is the one that requires less effort for a bigger result (in the short term). So using your arms and gravity will accomplish that!

🔥 However most of us aren’t practicing because it’s easy, we are practicing to improve our strength, functionality, proprioception and mobility.

👉like most things in life that means doing the hard thing now, sacrificing the immediate result for the long term, big picture gains.

🎯A body that is stronger, more flexible, and has improved functionality will always be far more capable than the body that does the minimum.

There is a time and place for everything but should you want to try an active twist it requires

💪Cross Body Coordination of external to internal obliques of the opposite side ➕Rotators of the Spine.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this video tomorrow

🌴 Costa Rica Retreat Now Open (same location that this video was filmed). May 2-9th, link in bio. 8 rooms left!

11/10/2025

Transversus Abdominis “TVA” in heart openers is like magic. It helps to create the vacuum effect of lifting the rib cage up. It’s literally like night and day, without it engaged back bends feel stiff and compressive, with it engaged it feels like infinite space and length in my spine.

Of course we will be focusing on this in one of our upcoming online classes in “Bring the Heat”. It’s not too late to join the immersion. Class 1 & 2 are now on demand!

11/09/2025

Light up your Psoas with this Boat you probably have never done before. Let me know how much is sucks 😅Want more ways to light up your core? Join us for class today at 12p eastern time or get the on demand replay 👉 “Bring The Heat” in bio

11/07/2025

❓Fidgeting vs. Adjusting: Yogis and Teachers listen up. They are NOT the same.

👉Yoga has been a long standing tradition of discipline, and as a result teachers latch onto “rules”.
🤓 Many times we get excited about a rule that’s worked for us and then as teachers we repeat it out of context thinking everyone needs this.
🔑 Here’s the deal the major difference between Fidgeting and Adjusting is the intent and focus.

🛑If you or your student is moving out of avoidance of general discomfort than yes it might be useful to practice staying still.

✅If the intent is to find a better experience within the pose, and they are DELIBERATELY moving, while staying focused on the sensations of their body this is indeed in directly alignment with the goal of yoga - to harness our intention and take intentional and deliberate actions. Yoga Trolls, Don’t comment with nonsense just go back and read the yoga sutras.

November Online Classes Start Tomorrow: “Bring the Heat” 👉 10 classes all levels, all about refining and deliberate movement. Lets go 🔥 link in story

11/06/2025

Hamstring Bridge: how to target the hamstrings

1. The Set Up: Walk your feel away from you so your heals are not under your knees (there are multiple distances that work well so find the one that challenges the Carter of your hamstrings)

2. To Rise Up: Instead of pushing your feet away from you - press down and PULL them toward you. Thats the 🔥

BONUS: to make it more intense lift and straighten one leg as you see in the video. This will force the hamstrings of the foot on the ground to work twice as hard.

Why?
Functionality of any muscles REQUIRES strength training, it’s not an option. Your muscles are designed to be engaged, if you only stretch them they loose integrity, strength and function. Stretching is good but that sensation can feel productive when in reality your muscles could be doing the opposite of building functionality if that’s all you do.

If you aren’t aware already, I am the founder of Chromatic Yoga. Each week Chromatic Teachers around the world focus on one muscle group or joint actions in their class.

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11/05/2025

Yes this assist can look weird on video. To make it not weird assistant keeps their hips back, so what I do is put my butt on a wall - this puts distance between their hands and your pelvis. Ok but why?

Hands on ankles (not feet or shins) changes the angle of the forarm making the trajectory of push for the practitioner significantly more accessible in the shoulders. It also removes the harsh wrist extension that most people experience when working on full wheel. Additionally it allows the practitioner some support on the rise up, the assistant can take a little weight off making it significantly easier (just like a spotter does when doing those last reps of bench press).

Retreat May 2-9th 👉Costa Rica 🌴
🔗 In Bio

Yogi in Full Wheel: teacher

11/03/2025

🙌Hands Wide, Arm Pits Lift. It looks like “softening” the spine with gravity but it’s actually a strong engagement of the Erector Spinae (back muscles), and it requires a ton of strength to keep the arm pits lifted.

⚠️IF YOU FEEL PRESSURE in your shoulder (where the arm meets the shoulder socket) back away.

👉The point of this is the exact opposite: it should feel effortful and strong but 0 pressure in the shoulder joint.

ℹ️ the reason you would feel pressure or pain is because most people drop their arm pits when the arms are over head and immediate compress the joint. To lift the arm bones requires that the scapula has the necessary range of motion available. Additionally the upper back requires spinal extension. When people see this demo they typically just relax with gravity…that’s not the same thing it’s the exact opposite.

Lift Lift Lift your arm pits ❤️

🌴 May 2-9th Costa Rica Retreat, Registration Now Open 👉 check my story at 12p Eastern Time today for the details

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween Yall! Whats your costume this year? If you’re in Connecticut and looking for something to do I’m playing live music tonight, obviously dressed as MJ. Here’s my music account 👉 7-10pm in Woodbury CT at

10/31/2025

Teacher Training’s, Retreats and Online Classes

⏰ Fall Registration closes Nov. 1st for the 200 & 300 Hour Trainings

🌴Costa Rica Retreat May 2-9th - Registration opens November 1st

🔥 November Online Classes begin Nov. 8th, Registration is now open link in story

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