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Yoga Bliss: Handstand Course

Course program

The Online Handstand Course by Yoga Bliss Lembongan is a short, self-paced program built around the principle that learning a handstand is less about raw strength and more about understanding how your own body moves. The course teaches students how to assess their starting point and design a handstand practice that fits them.

This course is open to anyone curious about handstands, with no prior experience or prerequisites required. It is built for students who are brand new to inversions, those who have been working on their handstand for a while, and everyone in between. There is no athletic background or yoga credential needed to enrol.

The course explores the key principles behind a sustainable handstand practice rather than a fixed routine. Students study evolutionary anatomy as a foundation for understanding why the body moves the way it does, and look at the three main obstacles that hold most people back from balancing on their hands.

From there, the curriculum unpacks active versus passive range of motion and why the distinction matters for inversions. Proprioception, the sense of where the body is in space, is treated as a core skill for learning to handstand safely. The final topic focuses on training: how to self-assess your unique strengths and limitations and build an individualised training program that targets them, so students leave with a method they can keep using rather than a one-size-fits-all set of drills.

The course is led by Gwendoline Ferreira, a senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bliss Lembongan. She came to handstands later in her practice rather than through a gymnastics background, and has since spent extensive time both studying and practising the skill. That experience shapes a course built around how to teach the body to handstand from the ground up, not how to copy a teacher’s shape.

The course is delivered fully online and is 100% self-paced, so students can move through the material on their own schedule. Alongside the lessons, the program offers the opportunity to receive personalised feedback and support on technique, meaning students are not left to interpret the material in isolation. There is no live cohort or fixed start date.

The course explores the key principles behind a sustainable handstand practice rather than a fixed routine. Students study evolutionary anatomy as a foundation for understanding why the body moves the way it does, and look at the three main obstacles that hold most people back from balancing on their hands.

From there, the curriculum unpacks active versus passive range of motion and why the distinction matters for inversions. Proprioception, the sense of where the body is in space, is treated as a core skill for learning to handstand safely. The final topic focuses on training: how to self-assess your unique strengths and limitations and build an individualised training program that targets them, so students leave with a method they can keep using rather than a one-size-fits-all set of drills.

Meet your teacher

Gwendoline Ferreira

Gwendoline Ferreira is an E-RYT 500 and YACEP-registered senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bliss Lembongan. She specialises in yoga anatomy and leads the school's online anatomy training, helping teachers apply anatomical knowledge to their practice and teaching.

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