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Matt Giordano, 30 Highmeadow Lane, Goshen, CT (2025)

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 🌴
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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

10/29/2025

Among many things Yoga provides us with Skill development “Asana” - the physical practice of improving our connection to this physical body. Like every other skill, beginners are timid, intermediates are impatient, and advanced practitioners lose interest. Every stage of practice has its challenges. Seeking the right support, discipline, inspiration (respectively in order) is key at every phase.

As a teacher my aim is to provide all levels experiences which means each class must include the appropriate step by step guidance for beginners, harness the attention of the intermediates so they can stay focused on the actions vs the end results, and inspire the advanced practitioners to reignited their passion.

The system is what I built to help other yoga teachers provide the same.

Events:
1. 200 & 300 Hour Online Trainings start Nov. 8th, REGISTRATION closes Nov. 1st

2. Costa Rica Retreat May 2-9th opens November 1st for waitlist members first - join the waitlist - send me a DM

3. November 8th starts the next Online Immersions “Bring The Heat” - 10 all levels appropriate livestreams with lifetime access

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10/28/2025

November 1 and 8th!
1. 200 & 300 Hour Teacher Trainings: Registration Closes Nov. 1st

2. 🌴 Costa Rica Retreat May 2-9th Registration Opens Nov. 1st,

3. Bring The Heat: 10 Online Class Immersion begins Nov. 8th, registration is now open! Link in story :)

DM me for retreat or teacher training info

10/27/2025

1. Externally rotate shoulder for the pecs stretch variation (this leads to the over head version King Dancer)
2. Retract the shoulder blade - toward spine (don’t miss this step, and hold retraction)
3. Use quads to kick back into your hand
4. Use buttocks and hamstrings to kick up to the sky.
5. Lean into the wall whilst lifting your heart

🌴Retreat: Costa Rica May 2-9th Registration opens November 1st! DM me to get on the waitlist and get early access to the details to plan your experience

10/22/2025

STOP judging online yoga vs in person yoga. The same way you wouldn’t judge in person yoga by the teacher or style, online yoga is a skill. Some teachers are better suited for the skill of teaching online while others are better in person. This is because they are two very different skillsets. And while SOME teachers have learned how to teach in both formats very well, most are doing their best with the format they have learned from the most.

There are endless benefits of online classes, trainings and courses that you just can’t get in person. And there are endless benefits of in person events that you can’t get online.

Instead of pretending one is better than the other, look for the benefits so you can be clear about which format is best for you. But secondly, look for the right teacher that has the skills you are wanting to develop and also has the skills to deliver in the format they are offering those skills.

📚200 & 300 Hour Online Teacher Trainings - Registration Opens November 1st

Do sign up for these if you are a visual and/or auditory learner

Don’t Sign up if you are looking to learn through physical touch

Do sign up if you want to be able to rewind, rewatch, be quizzed to help integrate the information you just learned

Don’t sign up if learning isn’t your priority and just want to meet people in person

Online courses have their strength in Education.

🌴If you want the in person experience where you meet your people and make friends for life - join me May 2-9th in Costa Rica

DM me for details

10/21/2025

Is Table Top a Backbend? My friend asked me to weigh in on this conversation and having just finished certifying the 18 new teachers questions like this are at the top of my list to answer. The reason is as Chromatic Teachers we aim to provide the highest level of clarity for our students, seeking to demystify anatomy, bio-mechanics and the postural practice of yoga.

🎯In short: the reason this is confusing

👉the same muscles of back bending are fully active in reverse table top
❌the spinal joints are NOT in spinal extension aka your spine is NOT in a backbend

How can that be?

In Reverse table top you are fighting the weight of your body against gravity, plus the tension of your shoulders and hip flexors. As a result you need to activate the posterior (back) chain of muscles to create the pose. However most people dont ever get to a point where their spine goes into much extension (but yes it’s possible)

📚200 & 300 Hour Teacher Training Registration closes November 1st.

Looking to get Chromatic Certified, or simply advance your knowledge and skills as a practitioner and teacher? Put the number 200 or 300 below

(200 is for yogis not yet certified to teach, 300 is for certified teachers)

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