For many yoga practitioners, poses like Chaturanga and Side Plank can present a challenge. To protect your shoulders, it’s crucial to approach these poses with stability and proper alignment. In this class, Tamara uses a technique called “root rebound” to build your strength and stability in these postures and help you work toward more advanced … Continued
This gentle yoga class targets people with high blood pressure, who are being effectively treated and have blood pressure readings in the normal range. The practice includes breath work, along with soothing strengthening and stretching postures to help reduce stress and normalize blood pressure.
Session 3: Many people struggle with wrist pain or arm alignment in downward dog. In this session, we stretch and strengthen the arms and wrists to create a strong foundation for downward facing dog. Asanas include supine Savasana with a block between the hands, flexion work, cat-cow, child’s pose with downward facing dog arms and … 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.
Vashistasana is a challenging, core-strengthening and balancing pose. It stabilizes the arms, belly, legs, and wrists, and in its full version, demands flexibility of the legs. In this tutorial, Natasha breaks this pose down into other, more familiar poses whose actions all come into play in Vashistasana, so that the final pose feels accessible.
The one stop shopping of core stabilization! Embrace this powerful pose to strengthen not merely your abs, but your lower belly, back, and hip flexors. Natasha also includes a trick for taking some of the work off of the psoas and keeping the legs more neutral. Discover how transformative Boat Pose (Navasana) can be!
Strength is necessary for both our health and our ability to do things we enjoy in our every day life. Overall strength keeps our joints stable, and gives us freedom to engage in a wider variety of activities without feeling drained or tired. In this video, Dr. Baxter Bell focuses on developing the strength of … Continued
This three-part class series is designed to develop strength, flexibility and intelligence in each of the areas that are crucial to a healthy and rich backbending practice. In this first class, our focus is on cultivating shoulder mobility and stability.
While we focus a lot on the hip flexors in yoga, we rarely hear about the hip extensors. But the action and strength of the hip extensors (particularly gluteus maximus) are vitally important in certain poses, particularly backbends. In this 40-minute class, Julie guides us through a practice showing how to strengthen the hip extensors and … Continued
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