Showing posts with label ashtanga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ashtanga. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Yoga Beginners part 4 of 5

Yoga Beginners Part 4 is a 10 min energizing practice, suitable for beginners. Some of the standing poses you learned in part 3 are repeated, but you learn to get into them differently. I added a few baby backbends that will increase your energy levels, a twist and a hip opener ! Enjoy..

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Yoga Beginners Part 3 of 5

Yoga Beginners Part 3 'Standing Poses' After you have done the first 2 parts of the series, you are now ready for some standing poses to build up strength. Enjoy while practicing, if not back off a little, keep it light.

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Yoga Beginners Part 2 of 5

Yoga Beginners Part 2 "Learn to Flow" Here Esther strings the poses you practiced in part 1 together and teaches you to flow with them on the rhythm of your breath. Keep practicing this part, so you are ready for part three "Standing poses" next. Enjoy while practicing, if not back off a little, keep it light.

Yoga Beginners Part 1 of 5

Yoga Beginners Part 1 "Foundational Poses" Esther's New Beginner Series. In part one of this beginner series Esther Ekhart explains a few of the most used poses in a flowing yoga class. There are 5 parts in this series.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

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.

Sunday, 6 November 2011

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.

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 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.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Yoga

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.

Friday, 4 November 2011

Hatha Yoga Class

This intermediate hatha class gets you moving with an invigorating sequence of classical asanas. This yoga class includes visualization techniques with breath; incorprated to deepen your awareness into body and energy. Poses include: Virabhadrasana II , Uttanasana.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Yoga for strong Legs and Back

This sequence uses a dynamic Warrior II pose , triangle pose and half moon pose to strengthen your legs and back! Hope you enjoy it!