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Handstands is a Journey

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A Deeper Physical Understanding

Your body is an extraordinary instrument. Our workshops help you build a deeper connection with it and discover a new outlook on movement and life.

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Reach New Abilities

We help you discover your true long-lasting potential by building awareness and sensitivity, not by chasing ego-driven success.

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Learn to Be One with Your Body

Mind, body, emotion, and motivation should align together. It starts with a solid base of body-mind connectivity, and we teach how to bring perspective and mindfulness into your everyday movement.

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Why Practice Handstands?

A handstand is more than a party trick. It is concentrated training for the wrists, shoulders, core, and nervous system, all loaded under your own bodyweight. It rebuilds proprioception, develops the kind of active flexibility the shoulders need to stack vertically, and exposes whichever movement patterns are weakest in your body. Pair the practice with steady breathwork and the off-mat awareness work, and the inversion stops being a stunt. It becomes diagnostic.

What Research Says

Balance training of the kind handstand work demands has well-documented carryover. A 2011 Sports Medicine review by Hrysomallis found that balance training improves both static and dynamic postural control and reduces injury risk in trained athletes (PubMed: 21210698). Earlier work by Behm and Anderson in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research showed that unstable-surface training recruits stabilizer muscles around the shoulder, trunk, and hip more strongly than equivalent stable-surface training (PubMed: 16646495). A handstand is essentially the most unstable surface there is (your own hand on the floor), which is why a few minutes of inverted balance work transfers so visibly into stronger standing posture, calmer breathing under load, and faster motor learning across the rest of your Micro-Movement practice.

Our team

MOTI CORE

Moti has a deep background in martial arts and Yoga. He is a certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher, RYT 400 hours by Yoga alliance. Moti is guided by the body-mind connection that leads us to a better physical and mental self. 

LIOR RAPHAELY

Lior is a natural hand balancer and movement enthusiast. His primary focus is bodyweight training and balance. Lior's favorite quote: "I can eat a steak and a kilo rice."