Strengthen your bones and your balance with this practice designed by Ellen. This is a great video for anyone with osteopenia or osteoporosis, and it also offers an opportunity to counteract the all-too-common hunch by opening up the upper chest and building body awareness.
Flexibility is one of the four key life skills for healthy aging. Dr. Baxter Bell has designed this practice to increase the range of motion you have in your shoulders, upper back, and neck area. Each one of us is dealing with our own flexibility issues, which have likely been stable for some time. Through … Continued
This gentle but stimulating practice will help wake you up, warm you up, and get you going. Melt away the grogginess and bring the energy of the new day into your body. A good coffee replacement (or add-on), this practice has been designed by Cyndi to perk you up and put you in a good … Continued
The amount of time we spend sitting in chairs closes up our front body: our hips flex at a right angle; our arms stay low, which tightens our shoulders; our diaphragm is compressed; our chest dropped; and our mid-back flexed. It’s no wonder we face a challenge with backbends! In this video, Julie guides you … Continued
Many of us spend much of the day in postural habits that cause us to slouch.These longterm habits create chronic tightness and/or weakness in our pectoral and thoracic muscles. With Ustrasana and all its prepatory poses, we can wake up and strengthen our mid-upper back while stretching and opening the pectoral muscles. This combination builds … Continued
In this practice the entire body will be nourished with the help of passive stretches designed to bring more blood flow to the organs. Unlike most yoga classes, whose aim is to simply stretch the muscles and connective tissue, this course focuses on specific techniques to help optimize the flow of prana (blood and lymph) … Continued
Learn two gentle, restorative versions of Fish Pose (Matsyasana) from Tias Little. These baby backbends will open the chest and fronts of the shoulders, helping to reverse the tendency most people have to hunch forward.
This practice is designed for the beginner and older beginner yoga student who is new to backbending. Julie lays the foundation of how to practice backbends and teaches everything you need to know to practice these energizing poses safely and effectively. Julie has expertly crafted this practice to first warm up the shoulders and core … Continued
Considered a more advanced pose, Urdhva Dhanurasana stretches and opens the entire body, while stregthening the arms, wrists, spine, legs and abdomen. This sequence will carefully prepare you for this strong pose by opening up the shoulders and the upper back, as well as the front body. This pose especially opens up the quadriceps and … Continued
Backbends are essential for counteracting long hours of sitting, but if done incorrectly they can place stress on the spine. This class focuses on the actions needed for healthy back bends. A healthy back bend is one that cultivates an increased mobility in the upper back without compressing the low back. We’ll also work to … Continued
Tap in to your energetic body with this practice centered around Tantric principles and techniques. Whether you are new to tantra, or looking to reinforce basic principles, this accessible practice with Katie Silcox will take you through asanas, bandhas, and finally mudras, for a well-rounded tantric practice. Focused on upward and inward movement, this sequence … Continued
Building on the foundation of the first two classes, Ana next guides practitioners through an exploration of the heart—our own personal drum beat. This practice explores gentle backbends to broaden and expand the front and side bodies for a heart that is open and nourished. Part of the Easy Does It series.