In this video, Dina Prioste shows us how to do a yoga grasshopper and peacock pose. First, get into a grasshopper pose with your elbows close together. Place your chin on the floor and pick your knees up into the air. Remember to focus on breathing while you are doing this, because it will be challenging. This is a really deep shoulder opener, so it will be difficult if you have no tried it before. Make sure you stretch out well before you do this, or you run the risk of pulling a muscle. You...
In order to stretch your quads and feet through yoga poses, begin by sitting on the floor with your right leg in front of you. Your left leg should be folded back behind you. Your foot should be just outside your hip. Your foot should be pointed behind you. You can use props to help you. Pillows or folded blankets can help. Lean forward over your forward leg. If you have difficulty reaching your foot, you can use a stretch to help you. Remember to exhale, as you lean into a stretch and inhale...
The cat stretch pose, also known as Marjari Asana, is a pose designed to help improve the flexibility of the neck, shoulders and your spine. This position also gives you intense relief from symptoms such as menstrual cramps and leucorrhea. In this video you will get a quick tutorial on how to perform this pose.
We all know that at thend of a looooonng workday, there's nothing better than faceplanting your bed and blocking it all out until it starts all over again tomorrow.
In this video Kumiko and Patrick show you why it's so important to stretch from your hips. You'll see an immediate difference in the quality of your stretches by getting these basics down cold.
You don't need a pricy gym membership or a personal trainer to achieve a celebrity-worthy body. In fact, all you really need to tone up at home is a yoga mat, a few good exercise videos, and some weights. After all, your own body is often more than enough to act as its own resistance during workouts.
You may not think yoga, calisthenics (jumping), and dynamic flexibility are related to swimming (given that those former exercises occur on land and swimming occurs in water), but all three types of exercises strengthen your ability to swim with ease and strength.
After practicing, the hipster stretching sequence outlined by yogi Sadie Nardini in this two-part yoga instructional video is something you can use to help build flexibility in your inner thighs and quads.
The splits are hot, but Dina has a long way to go and begs for your help. Watch this video to learn how to do stretches that help open your hip flexors and hamstrings to increase your yoga skills.
There are 2 videos showing the different styles in Thai body massage: the northern style puts more emphasis on the stretching, while the southern style is putting more emphasis on pressure point work. No oil or other lubricant is used in this massage technique. This body massage is believed to orginate from India and is sometimes called Thai yoga as the stretches are closely related to Yoga.
This series shows you a quick and effective core strength and stretch routine you can do in a chair anywhere, anytime, with Sadie Nardini, founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga. After watching this you'll be able to stretch right from your desk at work.
A quick and effective sequence, to get your body de-stressed before bed and help relieve restless legs syndrome, with Sadie Nardini, founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga. No more restless nights, no more medication this video shows how stretch and fall asleep comfortably.
The Crane pose is one of the easiest arm balance postures to perform. Place the hands on the mat in front of you. Bend the elbows out a little and place the inside of the knees or upper thighs on top of the triceps (the outer upper arms). Watch this how to video tutorial to see the bakasana or carne pose in action.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the fish pose in yoga.
Learn how to do yoga stretches and poses to relieve headache pain and tension headaches a tension headache with expert tips from our yoga instructor in this free alternative medicine video series.
Learn yoga positions and exercises to relieve stress and pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome in this free alternative medicine video from our expert yoga instructor.
Learn all about Yin Yoga and Zen Yoga in this free video series with expert Scott Soller. You will learn the philosophy behind Yin and Yang and meridians in the body and poses like the subtle pose, seal pose, and the butterfly and half butterfly poses.
The yoga cactus arm movement helps establish stability underneath the shoulders and upper arm area for inversions and back bends. This yoga how-to video demonstrates how to use the cactus arm movement to transition into cigarette girl action. Cigarette girl action is a name that Kira Ryder, our yoga host, has assigned to a movement she uses in her yoga classes. Watch and learn how to transition from cactus arms into cigarette girl movements in yoga.
This instructional fitnes HowTo video demonstrates how to do a ustrasana pose.
This instructional yoga how to video demonstrates how to do an advanced yoga sun salutation called sundance of koundinyasana.
If you're like us, then after a long day working at the computer, coming home to browse the web on the computer, and then checking our Blackberries and updating our Twitters, you're feeling exhausted but can't seem to wind down enough to fall asleep.
A shoulder stand is an important move in yoga. In this tutorial, learn how to perform and practice a proper shoulder stand in Vinyasa. The shoulder stand is great for exercising your neck, back and shoulder muscles.
Sun salutations are popular yoga sequences often used as meditation, worship, or calisthenics and are made up various yoga poses. Learn yoga sun salutation poses from a certified instructor in this free yoga video series.
Yoga sun salutations are a great way to warm up for an exercise routine or more advanced yoga poses. Learn how to do a yoga sun salutation routine with tips from a yoga instructor in this free video series.
Yoga is a great workout and fitness can be even more fun with props and outside tools. This video series will show you ways to use blocks straps and blankets to better your exercise.
Yoga is a great way to treat insomnia. Learn how to do a variety of relaxing yoga poses to help you sleep, with expert tips on insomnia in this free yoga video series.
Forget all the drugs used to induce you into labor. Our nine and a half month pregnant host demonstrates how to do induce labor naturally and safely by massaging pressure points. She also offers great yoga poses to do on a Swiss ball to reduce lower back aches. You don't have to stop your daily yoga routine during pregnancy.
In this video series Scott Soller will teach you Hatha Yoga from the ground up. You will learn popular poses like the bridge pose, baby, warrior, triangle, and table poses. Scott also gives you tips on breathing, safety, and more! Add shoulder stands, mountain pose, baby and corpse pose, and you are set in Hatha Yoga!
In this online Yoga video series, learn advanced Yoga poses from certified yoga instructor Leta Koontz. Leta will demonstrate and teach advanced yoga backbending poses and positions to prepare you for the foot to head pose.
Downward facing dog, or adho mukha svanasana, can help relieve the back and legs during pregnancy. Learn how to adjust the downward facing dog pose for prenatal yoga.
Grab a strap, necktie or belt to do this shoulder stretch. Remember your Ujjayi breathing and be sexy.
Want to add a little variation to the plank position? When you are ready to take it up a notch, lift a leg. Watch this video first, to see what it looks like.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the pigeon pose in yoga.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the lion pose in yoga.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the shooting bow pose in yoga.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the cobra pose in this video.
Part of the lunar flow yoga series with Shiva Rea. A brief introduction is given, and the video continues on without narration, watch and see how to do standing backbend preparation.
Part of the everyday yoga with Rodney Yee series. This video shows how to do forward bends which serve to open up the backs of the legs and relieve tension. This is a great classic stretch.
