Yoga for the New Beginner

If you've never tried yoga before and have been worried about jumping in, here's your chance! Sarah leads a gentle and deliberate series of asanas geared toward the brand new yogi. Where you take this practice will be your journey. Welcome!

Yoga Mudrasana - Advanced and Beginners

A Yoga Posture for health of the abdominal organs, for better digestion, for inner surrender and relaxation. Aruna shows you different variations: More advanced as well as beginner's variations of this Hatha Yoga Asana. This Video gives valuable hints for the beginner, the intermediate and the advanced student. It is especially helpful for Yoga Teachers who want to see the different variations they can recommend to their students.

Energizing Yoga Flow with Jessica Hatchett

Please welcome new yogatic teacher Jessica Hatchett. She leads us through an enrgizing flow.

Hatha Yoga Asana and Meditation Patanjali Raja Yoga 1-2

Swami Satchidanand giving the First of Two Energy Enhancement Talk about Hatha Yoga and Meditation and explaining that every Yoga posture or Asana is a path to Enlightenment.

Originally the word Yoga meant Union with the Absolute or Enlightenment. He then talks about the Eight Limbs of Yoga by Patanjali - Raja Yoga - Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi.

Yoga - Hatha Yoga Flow 4 - Full 1 Hour Class

This is a favorite of people who like their class to move along. Each movement flows into the next in this gentle sequence. Teacher: Setareh Riahi

Yoga Flow 101 | 37 Minutes | Challenging Beginner Practice

This class is part of an app called Yoga 101 available as an app on itunes. Search words: Yoga 101. This class is designed for the absolute beginner to vinyasa flow yoga, the most popular style of yoga practiced in America today.

Yoga Music Video - Tranquil and Beautiful Meditation - Blank and Jones Lullaby

To celebrate our Buddhism and Yoga pages on the Buddhism 101 project the video workshops of the Buddha's Face have commissioned a beautiful and calming music video of high definition yoga images and set them against a video backdrop of yoga and HD beach scenes. The music is by the trance artists Blank and Jones and is called Lullaby.

Intermediate Yoga Power Half Hour with Jen Yocum

This 27+ min yoga class is designed for those who have some experience with yoga or are strong beginners. It's a slightly rigorous class based in Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, and good for when you don't have a lot of time. Enjoy!

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Gentle Hatha Yoga

A classical hatha practice to bring you into your body, and into the now.

Beginner Hatha Yoga Class

Learn some of the beginning hatha yoga postures that will begin to build your foundation towards a deeper practice. Proper alignment, corrections, and body awareness, plus modifications of each pose will be shown to address common difficulties in performing yoga poses. This yoga class is an excellent foundation to creating a strong practice for a beginner yogi, or to develop greater understanding of various poses for a more experienced practitioner. Yoga postures include: Child's Pose , Easy Pose.

Hatha Yoga Video Tutorial - 1. Introduction

This video is the first part of eleven video segments that make up a Hatha Yoga tutorial on two series of yoga asanas(poses) The Surya Namaskaram and The Chakra Asana Series.

Advanced Hatha Yoga

This intermediate-advanced sequence of yoga asanas is designed to embrace the flow of your breath. Through the exploration of hip openers, backbends and balancing poses, you will invigorate your body and free your soul.

Hatha Yoga for Endocrine Health

Hatha Yoga for Endocrine Health is a gentle, restorative yoga class that addresses the health and balance in your endocrine system. The endocrine system is a ductless glandular system featuring the thyroid, thymus, hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands, as Unlike the digestive system, which secretes enzymes through ducts into the digestive organs, the endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream. In Yoga for Endocrine Health, Leela guides you through a series of postures that help to balance your mood, appetite, sleep functions and sexual hormones by creating glandular locks throughout the body to refresh and stimulate the endocrine system to improve your overall sense of well-being and health. Teacher: Leela Francis

Hatha Yoga For Beginners, A guide with 10 poses.

A video of beginners version of Hatha Yoga Sequence. 1. Let's start with easy Leg Raises: One leg is raised while the other remains flat on the floor. Inhale up, exhale down. Then both legs together. Lift as high as comfortable. Pay attention to the abdominal ad lower back muscles. Relax the shoulders and neck. 2. Simplified Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar): See description for more details: Here's how to do it: Inhale exhale palm together in the prayer position Inhale, stretch arms up, look up Exhale, fold forward Inhale look up Exhale Child Pose Inhale Cobra Exhale Downward Dog Inhale Lookup Exhale, fold forward Inhale, arms up Exhale, gently come back to the starting position 3. Child Pose (Balasana): It is a relaxation pose. Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. 4. The Forward Bend ( Paschimothanasana): The asana reduces fat and stimulates the nervous system. The first version is for more advanced while I did second simplified version. Try to keep the spine straight while inhale, then exhale just fold a little bit further. Gradually, you will be able to fold forward more each time. 5. The Bridge (Sethu Bandhasana) and The Wheel (Chakrasana). The Wheel is a most dynamic backward bend; it stimulates the energy centres and leaving us feel exhilarated. Please note that The Wheel might not be suitable for very beginners, if not, then repeat the bridge. 6. Spinal Twist (Meru Wakrasana): It stretches the spine, and tones the nerves, alleviates backache, neck pain.

Hatha Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Health

Michael Riel leading you through a one hour yoga flow designed to release those hard-working neck and shoulder muscles as well as loosening the related muscles and joints through the whole body.

This class is designed to decrease headache and shoulder pain as well as increase awareness of how the whole body interrelates. Using twists, strength building postures and backbends, this class will help you bring circulation to your body after a long day.

Hatha Yoga 1 -Easy Ground Work

This mat based Hatha Yoga flow is gentle and perfect for a "lazy" yoga day. Diane leads you through a gently active sequence that awakens your body without any strain, leaving you calm and refreshed. Duration: 43 min Teacher: Diane Jacobs

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The emphasis in this hatha class is on asanas involving twisting postures and movements. Twists release tension in the spine and increase shoulder and hip mobility, thus help to create structural balance. Twists stretch and open back muscles, and in this way are great for relieving backaches. Twists rejuvenate and revitalize internal organs and glands, keeping these important systems of the body healthy and balanced. Yoga Postures include: Navasana , Sukhasana.

Hatha Yoga Flow

This is a favorite of people who like their class to move along. Each movement flows into the next in this gentle sequence. Teacher: Setareh Riahi

Hatha Yoga Flow 2 with Diane

Hatha Yoga class with Diane Jacobs is great for beginners but more experienced yogis are encouraged to go deeper into the poses to make is a more challenging flow. With a calming sequence of backbends, heart opening postures and twists you will tone your nervous system and massage your internal organs. The opening postures will reduce the symptoms of PMS. Enjoy a special relaxation at the end as you are guided by Diane's warm voice, deeping your experience of Savasana and leaving you feeling refreshed and open. This class will still be slightly challenging because of it's duration. Duration: 55 minutes Benefits: opens heart chakra, lengthens the spine, increases lung capacity, reduces anxiety and PMS, tones the nervous system, improves digestion, increases body awareness Contraindictations: if you have any acute shoulder pain or lower back pain, be sure your spine and shoulders are safe at all times; always modify the poses so that you are comfortable Teacher: Diane Jacobs Poses in this Class: Seated Twist Side Stretch Cross Legged Forward Bend Cobblers Pose Lateral Inclined Plane Plank Butterfly Pose Downward Dog Cobra Crocodile Cat Cow (Angry Cat) Child's Pose Hero Pose Lunge Pose Triangle Pose Wide Legged Forward Bend Wide Legged Windmill Sun God Pose.