Follow this hip-opening and shoulder-opening sequence to prepare for its grand finale: Bird of Paradise pose. One of yoga’s most beautiful poses, this graceful posture balances strength and flexibility and promotes a soft, steady mind. It also cultivates the stabilizer muscles of the standing leg and opens the hips and shoulders.
Challange your balance with abdominal and leg-stabilizing poses. Carrie also gives out some helpful tips for how to incorporate balance-building into any practice so as to integrate stability and mobility, and improve functional movement off the mat.
Discover your new best teacher: the wall! The wall can bring newfound alignment into old yoga postures and help you find better balance. The wall doesn’t lie: it clarifies what angles your body should be at and where your weight should be. In addition, it offers support when you explore challenging inversions or balance poses. … Continued
An energy-boosting sequence targeting core muscles of the body! This practice features some of Melina’s favorite yoga poses to build great posture, improve balance, and increase muscle tone. With the longer holds and repetitions, heat up your core temperature and build focus as you move from superficial to deep muscles.
Important functional movements such as walking, hiking, climbing stairs, and balance in general all benefit from the actions of the standing leg in Warrior 3 pose. Join Carrie in this practice, which will build your strength, stability, and mobility through deconstructing and then reconstructing this familiar pose.
One of the keys to healthy aging is to retain core integrity and balance to keep us effortlessly mobile even as we get older and prevent falls and fractures. In this practice, Baxter introduces the first steps to increase core strength in a balanced way to preserve the integrity of the core. We start with … Continued
In this class, Baxter continues his series of yoga practices designed to enhance core integrity and balance. Building core strength isn’t just about increasing the strength of our physical core; it also tends to have effects on our mental and emotional well-being, giving us a greater sense of inner strength and integry. Baxter reviews and … Continued
In this third installment of Baxter’s series on building core integrity and improving balance, we start with a series of gentle warm-ups to slowly energize the core. Baxter then leads us in a series of standing poses, which strengthen the core while also improving balance and functional integrity. Improving balance can improve your overall performance of … Continued
One of the most tragic things that happen as we get older is that we lose the easy sense of balance we take for granted early in life. This in turn leads to falls, injuries, and even fractures which become increasingly common with age. In this class, Baxter completes his 4-part series of practices to … Continued
Increasing balance is important on many levels. In addition to increasing physical balance, it’s important to maintain balance in how we live by balancing effort and ease. In yoga, we look at balance in every way–both in terms of inner experience and in terms of our connection to the outer world. Balance practice is a … Continued
We’ll begin this practice with alternate nostril breathing to help balance the feeling mind with the thinking mind and then move into a practice with several balancing poses. Allow yourself to be vulnerable to the sensations of falling and if you do fall, as we all do, just come right back up!
Dancer’s pose (Natarajasana) is often thrown in as a standing balancing pose in the middle of a class. It is actually a very deep backbend. The shoulders and hip flexors and the spine must be opened, and, in particular the mid-upper back needs to be warmed. This 60-minute level 2 class takes students through a … Continued