Rock that Boat: Navasana for Core Strength and Balance

This Navasana practice develops balance and concentration, and also strengthens some of the body’s most important muscle groups: the abdominals, the hip flexors, and the quads. Unlike ab work-outs that round the back, the poses in this video keep the torso long, strengthening the back body as well as the front and improve your posture. … Continued

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Twisting

Twists are well known for detoxifying the body, improving digestion, and toning the abdmonial muscles. In addition, twists can help mobilize the thoracic spine, that mid- to upper-back area that often tightens into a hunch as we sit at our desks. In this well-rounded twisting class, Jasmine guides you through a series of poses that … Continued

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My Favorite Practice

Join Cyndi in this practice focused on cultivating Santosha—contentment. Santosha is one of the niyamas, or guiding principles of yoga, and the term is often translated as contentment or joy. Through this balanced routine, develop that contentment and joy within, wherever you are at.

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Dump the Slump! Deepen Your Backbends to Improve Posture

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

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Beginner Guide to Down Dog

Bring balance, length, strength, and connection to the earth into your Downward Dog through this tutorial. Downward Dog is not a one-size-fits all pose, and as our bodies change from doing yoga, our downward dog pose will shift as well. The guidelines Cyndi provides in this video clarify how to do the pose in a … Continued

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Tutorial Utthita Trikonansana

Master the important nuances and subtleties of this pose with Dr. Baxter Bell. Triangle pose, Utthita Trikonansana, opens the heart, chest, and shoulders while increasing hip mobility and toning the muscles of the legs. Develop a strong and correctly aligned Utthita Trikonansana with this video.   

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Mindful Meditation

Mindfulness meditation allows us to make friends with ourselves and what’s going on in our mind. Whether you are new to meditation or could use a refresher, Cyndi provides step-by-step instructions for making friends with your mind and bringing it back in to the present moment.

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Practice for Morning

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

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Find Freedom in Your Hips

Because the hip is a ball and socket joint, many of us experience tightness in one direction or another in our hips. This class will work to open the adductors (inner thighs), the hip flexors and the hamstrings through many standing and seated postures as well as arm balances and sweet restoratives.  

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Improve Your Posture with Ustrasana

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

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Deep Twists: An Act of Effort and Surrender

Twists are a powerful tool to detoxify the spine, stimulate healthy organ function, and improve spinal mobility. Taking twists to the next level, however, requires a balance of effort and surrender. Take the next step in your twist practice with this video, and find new spaciousness and freedom in postures like revolved bird of paradise … Continued

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Get Focused with Standing Balances

Standing balancing poses require strength and flexiblity, but they also require steadfast focus: if you allow your mind or gaze to wander, the body will follow. This 60-minute class will help you clear out your mind as you work toward many one-legged balancing postures, from Vrksasana and Virabadrasana 3 to Guardasana and the always-challenging Uttita … Continued

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