Workshops & Retreats
Part 1: Saturday Oct 31st, 2026
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Part 2: Saturday Nov 14th, 2026
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Led by Julia Hollenberg
The Hanged Muse
An Inversion Immersion Workshop Series
What happens when you turn your perspective upside down?
Inversions are more than a physical feat. They ask us to develop a different kind of intelligence: to listen closely to the body, cultivate trust in our own support, and become willing to see and feel things from a completely different perspective.
The Hanged Muse is a two-part immersion into the foundations, skills, and playful possibilities of going upside down. Drawing inspiration from the Hanged Man archetype, we’ll explore inversions as a practice of self-study—examining our mental stories, moving through fear, building embodied intelligence, and finding ease in uncomfortable moments. Along the way, you may discover a deeper well of inner strength, resilience, and empowerment than you knew before.
This series is for students wanting to build the strength, body awareness, and confidence to explore inversions with greater curiosity and play, and less intimidation. Whether you’re brand new to going upside down or looking to refine an existing practice, you’ll develop practical skills and a deeper understanding of how the body organizes itself in space.
Teachers looking to increase their confidence and skill in practicing or teaching inversions are also welcome.
Part 1 — Up-Side-Down Foundations
Before we go upside down, we’ll build the physical intelligence that makes inversions more accessible, sustainable, and fun.
Through familiar asana like Mountain Pose, Down Dog, Chaturanga, Warrior III, and Dolphin, we’ll explore alignment, strength, and support through the core, pelvis, shoulder girdle, and hands. We’ll learn to feel support and structure from within, developing the internal map we need to eventually take our practice upside down.
We will not actually invert in Part 1. This workshop also stands alone as an opportunity to deepen your understanding of foundational poses and develop greater body intelligence. It is a pre-requisite for part 2.
Part 2 — Flying Heels over Head!
Now we take what we’ve cultivated and hang upside down!
Using Headstand and Handstand as our primary inversions, we’ll explore progressive variations and wall-based practices to build strength, skill, balance, and confidence.
The wall becomes a laboratory for experimentation, refinement, and play as we explore not only the mechanics of getting upside down, but also the less tangible dimensions of inversion: trust, courage, surrender, and perspective.
The invitation isn’t to achieve a perfect inversion. It’s to become curious about what happens when you change your point of view.
Come for the inversions. Stay for the inner perspective shift.
Part 1 lays the foundation. Part 2 takes us upside down. Together, they invite us to discover what becomes possible when we’re willing to look at the world—and ourselves—differently.
