Bend With Jess

Bend With Jess Jessica Frances Köhler is a multi-talented performer and coach whose approach to contortion and fle
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August Online Class Schedule ♥️This month we’re exploring mixed skills, with a varied line-up of backbends, arm balances...
06/08/2026

August Online Class Schedule ♥️

This month we’re exploring mixed skills, with a varied line-up of backbends, arm balances, transitions, splits, leg lines and more.

All live classes and recordings are included for Core Plus Patreon members, along with access to my full on-demand library. Once-off drop-ins are also available through my website.

Classes will be modified to suit the levels attending. Members are always welcome to message me with questions or requests ♥️

Mondays: Backbends at 6 PM SAST (75-90 mins)
Wednesdays: Leg Flexibility at 6 PM SAST (60-75 mins)

I can’t wait to move with you this month ♥️🙇🏽‍♀️

30/07/2026

Your body is constantly communicating with you. Learning how to listen, and having the flexibility to respond, is one of the most valuable skills you can develop in your movement practice.

If you’d like to train with me, you can join my Patreon for weekly live classes and an ever-growing library of recorded sessions to explore at your own pace.

If you’re looking for more personalized guidance, I also offer custom training programmes and 1:1 coaching, where we can respond to exactly what your body needs, step by step.

I’ll see you on the mat ♥️

28/07/2026

Working on your ankle grab? Try integrating this exercise into your training ♥️👇🏽

By the way 🤭👉🏽 If you’d like to train movements like this more consistently, I have a growing library of recorded classes on my Patreon that explore ankle grabs, overhead reach, backbends, and the strength and mobility needed to support them 😍👏🏽 As a member, you’ll also gain access to my weekly live classes and recordings 👏🏽 all members have access to these classes to build these skills step by step.

If you want to try this 👉🏽 please only explore this if you have some backbending experience and your body is thoroughly warmed up, particularly your hips, shoulders, and back.

Start by developing comfortable shoulder rotation with a bent arm 🙆🏽‍♀️ From there, if you have the mobility, comfort, and control, you can gradually explore the same rotation with an extended arm (more advanced shoulder rotation 🙇🏽‍♀️)

When that feels calm and comfortable, you can begin working towards gently finding your foot or ankle, allowing your back leg to support the curl into your ankle grab, and eventually an extended-arm ankle grab lunge.

Take your time with this one. Smooth, patient repetitions will always be more valuable than forcing the final shape ♥️

Join my Patreon for more, come move and learn with me! 🙆🏽‍♀️♥️

27/07/2026

When it comes to contortion and flexibility training, compound movements like this are where all the smaller pieces begin to come together 😍

This is an example of a really satisfying exercise that develops your ability to transition into your needle scale and your stability in your needle ♥️

👉🏽 Balance, standing-leg stability, shoulder rotation, strength in shoulder extension, back-leg opening and body awareness all play a role 👏🏽 That’s why I saved this transition for the final week of our Needle Scale Lab, after spending the month building the foundations first.

Join me on Patreon for the full class and access to my growing on-demand flexibility library, or train with me in a group or private session. We’ll build towards movements like this step by step ♥️

This month online & on my Patreon ♥️🦋👇🏽 👉🏽 Needle Scale Lab 🌈 Every Monday during our weekly backbend classes, we explor...
15/07/2026

This month online & on my Patreon ♥️🦋👇🏽

👉🏽 Needle Scale Lab 🌈
Every Monday during our weekly backbend classes, we explore opening and developing range and deeper comfort in Needle Scale elements (backbend splits, hips, shoulders, etc…) improving your ability to get closer to your needle, and variations of needle ♥️

👉🏽 Wednesday Leg Flexibility Classes 🤸🏽
Every Wednesday we focus on mobilising and developing range, strength and release in your splits, some weeks we focus on front splits, others middle splits 💫

🦋 Sign up to individual classes via my website (recordings can be given on request) or 👇🏽

🕺Become a Patreon member for access to live classes, and my on demand class recording library ☺️👏🏽

I’ll see you on the mat ♥️

01/07/2026

Can anyone else relate?? 😜🤣 As a loud and proud shortie, I honestly feel like I work extra hard for these legs and lines 🤣

As a coach it is so cool seeing how different shapes and lines are expressed in different bodies!! Everyone is so unique, and one shape will look so different on two different bodies/humans ♥️

ACCEPTING our bodies and working with what we’ve got unlocks a lot more happiness and satisfaction than fighting what we’ve been given. Every body can expand its capacity, learn splits, backbends, shapes, but the way those shapes looks on your body is completely unique, and that pretty damn beautiful ♥️

But seriously, hands up if you worked hard for your splits 🙋🏽‍♀️🤣 Join my weekly Wednesday classes for legs legs legs, recordings are posted weekly on my Patreon ♥️

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