How To: Strengthen your core with the crow yoga posture
Sadie Nardini teaches you how to unlock all your arm balances faster with the proper balance points of the crow foundational yoga pose.
Sadie Nardini teaches you how to unlock all your arm balances faster with the proper balance points of the crow foundational yoga pose.
Sadie Nardini teaches you how to do chaturanga yoga push ups.
How to do a headstand or topsy-turvy posture in hatha yoga. This posture is used to observe celibacy and preserve energy and vitality.
This video is a silent video of B.K.S. Iyengar demonstrate yoga postures in 1938. A powerful demonstration of proper posture and technique by a master.
Richard Freeman shows how to do various seat backbend poses. Among these are the noose pose, heron pose, side bow pose and camel pose. As the yoga poses are being done, a narrator explains how to do them. Geared for an intermediate level.
We don't usually think that you need exercise equipment in order to work out effectively. In fact, most of the time you can achieve comparable results to going to the gym simply by using your own body weight (doing push ups, for instance, or the Warrior 3 yoga pose).
Almost everyone wants to be a little bit taller. By following the simple stretches and exercises outlined in this video we learn that it's possible to gain that inch or two simply through straightening your spine and posture, and through overall muscle health. Listing a dozen mostly yoga related positions, ranging from the Cobra position to the Yawn stretch to the Downhill, along with supplying health diagrams for each and every one, this video shows you how to get the most out of your body's...
A better body image in six steps, and dieting isn't one of them. This video will show you how to build a better body image.
Sadie Nardini teaches you a very challenging pose for practitioners of all levels
Awakening the sixth chakra – known as the third eye – also awakens your sixth sense, and unlocks psychic potential. In this tutorial, learn how to harness your spirituality and get in touch with your third eye.
Tara Stiles teaches us how to reduce anxiety using yoga in this video. You can do this any time of the day, and it will help you relax and have some time for yourself. Start by sitting up against a flat surface, and rest your hands on your knees. Close your eyes for a few minutes, following your breath. The thoughts will still happen in your head, but try to focus on your breathe as much as you can. After you do this, take your body to the side and bring your arm around your head while lookin...
In this video, we learn how to lose belly fat through yoga with Cindy Mastery. Start out in a seated position with your legs out in front of you. Then, bring your hands out in front of you. As you exhale, make a circle motion around your feet. Engage your core and keep your shoulders leveled during this exercise. Do this several times, then go into starting position. Now, bring your fingertips over your toes and reach your fingers up to the sky. Bring the arms up, then reach back down to the ...
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.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to do a mom's yoga breathing exercise. Begin by sitting down on your knees and spread your fingers wide apart. Take a deep inhale, as you exhale open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue. When you exhale, roll your eyes up and look up to the ceiling. Continue inhaling and exhaling for this exercise. This video will benefit those viewers who are interested in health and fitness, and would like to learn a yoga exercise that will help improve the bl...
Rasas Book Lecture Extract 7 of 22 : By fasting from anger for some time, we learn to control anger in our lives. It teaches us to better manage our expectations, because anger comes when our expectations are not fulfilled. Part of a Yoga class on Rasa Sadhana, the Tantric practice of emotional fasting. See also www.rasas.info.
If you are not naturally flexible, you can learn quickly, but you cannot simply do average stretches and hope to see big results. Diet and nutrition play a very big role in increasing flexibility as well. This yoga tutorial teaches you how to increase your flexibility safely and quickly.
In this how to video you will learn a yoga routine is designed to help you sleep well. All you need is you and your bed. You can sleep better and wake up well rested with this great before bed routine.
In this how-to video sequence Kira Ryder plays with the simple action of turning the head and neck more effectively and with greater awareness. Strengthen and ease the neck with simple neck turning exercise from yoga.
Abdominal lifts give a great core workout while developing breathing muscles in your abdomen. They tone your abdominals, strengthen your lower back, and boost your metabolism. They're a great way to start any workout. Some dieters use them to help them loose weight. Watch this this how to video to learn how to properly incorporate abdominal lifts into your yoga routines.
If you experience nasty calf cramps during the night, then this prenatal yoga pose is for you. Learn how to do head-to-knee pose to relieve your tight muscles.
This video demonstrates how to do the downward facing dog technique in yoga. The video walks you through the movement of the arms, the position of your tail bone, and your breathing pattern while doing this technique.
Check out this video to learn how to do the basic plank position for yoga. Start off on all fours and put your feet out straight behind you.
Yoga butterfly breathing is a great way to start you day or any work out. It gets you well oxygenated, helps you eliminate toxins, gets your cardiovascular system revved up and bumps up your metabolism. Watch this how to video and start using this butterfly breathing technique.
Dina invites you to explore your wild side with the yoga crow pose. She demonstrates crow pose for beginners and for those a little more advanced. Strengthen your upper body and your core.
No need to use a pillow for this fun variation of an earlier arm balance. Watch this video to practice the challenging yoga side crow pose.
Joe Kulak shows us how to do the chair pose in yoga.
Learn how to relax with a partner by doing partner yoga stretches.
In this video, Rodney Yee shows us how to do the half-fish pose. This yoga pose primarily aids in digestion. It is also a common hamstring stretch done in most sports, with no yoga connection.
Awakening the female energy that resides in the base of your spine is not a process that can be done in an afternoon but is something you work towards though lots of work in kundalini yoga and work toward an enlightened state of being.
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.
Pilates is fantastic exercise. If you are a beginner, though, it can be confusing to choose the right type of class. Check out this tutorial before you head to the studio and ensure you get the most out of your exercise routine.
Want to increase your flexibility, tone your back and core, AND relieve stress all at once? It sounds nothing short of a miracle, but with a good yoga practice you can have all three at the same time.
In this Fitness video tutorial you will learn how to do a yoga handstand correctly. Bend forward and place both your hands on the ground. The fingers should be pointing forward and the palms should be flat on the ground. The shoulders should be naturally in to the body. They must not be stretched. Keep both the legs bent at the knees. Now lift one leg and practice kicking slowly with the other leg and pulling the navel in towards the spine. And eventually the full body will lift up and go bac...
As women, we're naturally prone to complaining about our bodies. Either our pores are too big or our boobs are too small or our abs are not small enough. There's really no limit to what we bash ourselves about, and it varies from day to day (thanks, societal beauty standards).
When you begin practicing intermediate to advanced yoga, you have to challenge yourself with harder poses like the handstand, which requires a strong core and ripped arms. Though after practice the handstand gets easier to do, we know you're only human and have some off days.
Back pain is a common discomfort that women experience during and after pregnancy. Though a short, effective standing and seated series, this yoga how to video concentrates on alleviating some of these common aches and pains. Side bending poses help release lower back pain by stretching the latissimus dorsi (lower back) muscles. Forward bend and hip openers release and extend the lower back, hip and hamstring muscles. Twisting poses help stretch and release the back and shoulder muscles, crea...
This video is for people who are interested in yoga but have trouble doing the most basic positions. Often these people just give up, when in fact they need asana practice more than anyone else!
In this how to video, you will learn how to become more flexible. This refers to the range of motion you can attain around a joint. This can be useful for keeping your body fit and becoming a better lover. You will also be less prone to injury. You will also get slimmer. The best time to do this is after a workout. Hold each movement for ten to fifteen seconds. Although you may feel a pull in the muscle, do not stretch to the point of pain. Yoga and Pilates is another away to increase flexibi...
In this series our expert, Hitesh Shashikant Shah, gives tips and advice on Surya Namaskar Yoga exercises and leads you through the mantras, poses, and positions including safety tips and advice on how to relax after untangling yourself.
The Golden Egg is perhaps more of a state of mind than a posture in yoga. The Golden Egg involves sustaining and concentrating your core strength, creating what Sadie Nardini calls an "abdominal balloon."