Franny Diaz-Gilligan
Yoga is the best thing that has ever happened to Franny.
Practice illuminated her immense potential that traditional schooling methods were blind to. Yoga was a gateway for Franny to access her true self. As a teacher since 2018, Franny seeks to empower others with the tools of yoga. Inclusivity is a core value for Franny. Her classes are both accessible and exciting for all body types and practice levels. Franny loves to stand on one leg, feel held in low plank, and feel the weight of her body become therapeutic in a forward fold. She embraces yoga as a practice of opposites, wild in one moment and calm the next. She is a loving guide who honors the needs of students and challenges them to rise and meet the best versions of themselves. Franny likes to sweat and to explore. She would practice for 8 hours a day if you kept cuing. Yoga is her core form of expression and the cause for great joy. Moving toward discomfort on her mat, Franny has found freedom in her daily life. She continues to develop her practice, taking inspiration from her teacher, Masaaki Okamura, with whom she meets each week. All of her teachers, she describes, as real and moody, unafraid to show their messier angles. Her 500 hours of teacher training, time being an assistant, and dedication to self-study, form a strong foundation for a lifetime of practice and teaching. Her teaching style is as distinct and vibrant as her personality, rich with color and always interesting, infusing her individuality while honoring the ancient teachings of yoga and its traditions.
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Flow: Accepting Polarities • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 40 minutes
Franny Diaz-Gilligan invites you to find your center so you can better accept polarities in this 40 minute vinyasa flow designed to improve strength, flexibility and balance.
Suggested props: two blocks
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Flow: Full Body Flow • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 45 minutes
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Flow: Hips & Low Back • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 40 minutes
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Flow: Sthira and Sukha • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 40 minutes
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Flow: Side Body Space • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 40 minutes
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Flow: Journey Through Triangle • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 30 minutes
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Flow: Neck & Shoulders • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 35 minutes
Props: Strap, Blocks, Tennis Ball
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Restorative: Supported Shoulder Stand • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 10 minutes
Explore the ever-changing sensations of long held inversions with Franny. Fill your asana, sarvangasana, with ease.
Props: 3 blankets, block
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Flow: Hips & Back Extension • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 45 minutes
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Slow Flow for All Levels • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 45 Minutes
This class is a fully body vinyasa exploration at a slower pace. Franny spends time moving through classic vinyasa sequences and takes time to stop and breathe in between. The perfect class for a mid-week break from your normal routine.
All Levels
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30 Minute Slow Flow with Franny Diaz Gilligan
Luxuriate in the potency of slowing down with 30 minutes of Slow Flow with Franny Diaz Gilligan. This class asks you to surrender to softness and explore the depths of your breath as you gingerly move through deep stretching postures. Class finishes with a long savasana.
Suggested Props: Blanke...
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Flow with Franny 60 min
Energizing, hip opener and spinal mobility.
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Power Flow: Feel the Buzz Franny Diaz-Gilligan 45 min
A classic, full body, Franny flow, with attention to detail. You'll work with lunges, twists, back bends, standing splits, balancing, and of course, there’s always options to make it your own!
Suggested props: Blankets and Block
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Flow: Curate your flow Franny Diaz-Gilligan 60 min
This full-body practice allows you to put forth as much effort as you wish as you flow. All props you have been suggested so you can really curate it for yourself.
Suggested props: Blocks, Blanket, Strap
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Power: Spring Flow • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 50 min
This energizing practice with Franny is perfect for awakening your body to warmth, just in time for Spring. You’ll get engaged & springy in your lower body, while still opening up throughout your upper half too. There is a balance between breath and movement, and time to hold a shape, breath, and...
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Power Flow: Bow Bow • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 45 minutes
This practice includes multiple postures that will give you opportunities to incorporate dynamic chest expansion variations. There is a nice balance between holding shapes with breath, observing how the subtle body reacts to them, and opportunities for a more vinyasa focused kind of movement with...
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Power Flow: Deep Hippy Flow • Franny Diaz Gilligan • 60 min
A deep flow that will bring you to spend time in your hips with breath, as well as balancing and back-bending.
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Power Flow: So Raw, So Real • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 45 min
Join Franny in a very raw and real class that will warm your entire body. You'll have opportunities to feel and balance on big your toe ball mounds, which are a huge area of support for your balancing shapes. You might wiggle or fall a few times with Franny, but have fun and enjoy!
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Power Flow: It’s a Burner • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 50 min
A well paced heating sequence that focuses on balancing. You will be with your breath, heartbeat, and legs, while flowing and eventually transitioning from Virabhadrasana III, Warrior III to Ardha Chandra Chapasana, Sugarcane Pose. It’s a burner!
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Flow: Follow your Flow • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 35 min
This class begins and ends slowly, but in the middle is a breath and movement flow playing with funky transitions from warrior 1 to chair, to chair twist, to half moon. It’s not a Franny class without a half moon! We will end with Marichyasana variations and peacefully seated.
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Power: Range of Motion • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 50 min
Tap into a strong foundation in each of your poses while exploring your range of motion in both your body and your breath. Begin on your back, move through Surya Namaskar A (Sun Salutation A), and flow through a series of standing poses, plank variations, and some flips and backbends before endin...
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Flow: Focus on the Feet • Franny Diaz-Gilligan • 75 min
This uplifting Flow class will work with a number of big toe poses. You’ll do them reclined, in forward folds, on your side body, and standing, working towards Utthita Hasta Padangustasana (Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose). Expect a nice balance of moving through shapes and holding shapes. Each sha...