5 Ways To Use A Yoga Block
Unleash the full potential of your yoga practice with the versatile yoga block! Discover 5 creative ways to use this prop to deepen your stretches, improve your balance, and modify poses for ultimate comfort and progress.
Yin Yoga Sequence for Tight Hips
The hips play a big role in the stability of our bodies. Having tight hips can cause all sorts of aches and pains, including lower back pain. To help free them up, try the following Yin Yoga stretches. Pictures and instructions included, as well as a video to practice along with me, and a poster for quick reference.
What's The Point of Savasana and Do You Have To Do It?
Savasana allows your body and mind to come back to neutral at the end of a yoga practice. By laying in stillness, fully relaxed, you allow your heart rate, temperature, blood pressure etc. to return back to its neutral state before continuing on with the rest of your day.
Can You Do Yoga If You're Not Flexible?
Yes, you absolutely can! Yoga is a practice for every body, no matter your size, age, gender, or level of flexibility. Yoga is what makes you flexible! With a consistent yoga practice, your muscles will loosen, relax, and lengthen, helping you get deeper into the poses, and improving your flexibility.
The Story Behind Yoga's Virabhadrasana (Warrior Poses)
The Warrior Poses are named after the fierce warrior, Virabhadra, a mythological Hindu warrior and incarnation of the god Shiva. Said to have a thousand arms and a body as dark as storm clouds, find out the history behind these powerful poses.
How To Do Warrior III Pose (Virabhadrasana III)
On an exhale, push with your left foot and bring your weight forward over your right leg as your left leg lifts up behind you. Your body comes parallel with the floor.
How To Do Warrior II Pose (Virabhadrasana II)
Step your left foot back parallel with the short side of your mat. Align your left heel or arch with your right heel, and lift up the arches of both feet. Bend down into your right knee, and gently draw your feet towards each other.
How To Do Warrior I Pose (Virabhadrasana I)
Exhale, step your left foot back at a 45-degree angle with your legs on two separate lines. Press down firmly through the little toe side of your left foot and pull up the muscles above your left kneecap to engage through this leg.
How to Start a Home Yoga Practice
Here's how to establish a yoga practice at home by yourself, even if you are a beginner, and reap the physical, mental and emotional benefits that yoga brings.
How To Do A Moon Salutation (Photo and Video Tutorial)
What is a Moon Salutation? When do I practice it and what are the benefits? Learn all about the lesser known sister of the Sun Salutation and practice with the next full moon!
What Style of Yoga Should I Practice?
Vinyasa to Iyengar, Yin to Ashtanga - what's the difference, and which one is right for you? This is your guide to every style of yoga out there.