Sleeping Vishnu Pose - Anantasana
Type of pose: Balancing
Benefits: Improves balance; stretches the hamstrings and calves
Instructions:
1. Lie on your back.
2. Roll over onto the right side.
3. Bend your right arm, and bring your right hand under your head with the fingers toward your chin.
4. Flex both feet.
5. Try to keep your whole body in one line, …
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YOGA – Position Of The Day
YOGA – Position Of The Day
Warrior II – Virabhadrasana II
Type of pose: Standing
Benefits: Strengthen the legs and arms, opens the chest and shoulders, tones the abdomen.
Instructions:
1. From Warrior I, open the arms out, bringing the right arm in front of you and the left arm behind.
2. Open the left hip back.
3. Keep the right knee bent and the right thigh parallel …
YOGA – Position Of The Day
Downward Facing Dog – Adho Mukha Svanasana
Also known as: Downward Dog, Down Dog
Type of pose: Standing, Mild Inversion, Resting
Benefits: Stretches and strengthens the whole body. Can help relieve back pain.
Downward facing dog is done many times during most yoga classes. It is a transitional pose, a resting pose and a great strengthener in its own …
YOGA – Position Of The Day
Yoga Stretches at Your Desk
It’s great to do a yoga routine before or after work, but what about incorporating yoga stretches into the rest of your day? This is especially important for people whose jobs require them to sit at a desk in front of a computer for long hours, resulting in back …
YOGA – Position Of The Day
Extended Triangle Pose – Utthita Trikonasana
Also known as: Trikonasana
Type of pose: Standing
Benefits: Strengthen the legs, stretches the groins, hamstrings, hips, opens the chest and shoulders. Can help relieve back pain.
Instructions:
1. From Warrior II, straighten your front leg (the left leg in this case).
2. Begin the reach the left arm forward, drawing the left thigh upwards …
Finding Love and Stability Within
In yoga, we’re all about creating freedom. Freedom from things like limitation, tension and lack, and the freedom to be who we need to be in order to feel alive, awake to our own potential, and of course, happy. On my off hours at the Omega’s Institute’s Being Yoga conference, I stumbled across Byron Katie’s …
Going in Circles
Two yogis walk into a bar . . . No, it’s not the beginning of a joke. It was my last Saturday night!
I’d just finished two visiting workshops in Boston, and I was ravenously hungry. I’d meant to grab a power lunch between classes, but I was enjoying questions from the students so much …
