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Yogasthenics – Full Body Class

Yogasthenics – Full Body Class

Yogasthenics  Yoga meets Calisthenics for a total body and mind workout  Join us for this Yogasthenics ultimate yoga workout. In this class we raise the heart rate a bit more than the usual yoga classes by combining traditional yoga poses, pranayama (breathing techniques), calisthenics exercises, and meditation. However, it is still true to the principles [...]
Seated Forward Fold – Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana

Seated Forward Fold – Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana

Seated Forward Fold - Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana Learn how to do the seated forward fold (Ardha Baddha Padma Paschimottanasana) with a half-bound lotus. Stretch your hamstrings, open your hips, and release tension from your lower back. This pose is from the ashtanga vinyasa primary series, it's a challenging forward fold that includes a half [...]
Advanced Yoga Asanas: Mukta Hasta Sirsasana C

Advanced Yoga Asanas: Mukta Hasta Sirsasana C

Free Hand Headstand Mukta hasta sirsasana is an advanced free hand headstand from the second series of Ashtanga yoga. Do not do this unless you have a good, regular headstand in your asana practice. If you are new to headstand practice, start here. Remember that mastering a headstand takes time and you shouldn't be rushing into [...]
How Yoga Can Help To Reduce Snoring

How Yoga Can Help To Reduce Snoring

Do you want to reduce snoring? Aside from being unpopular with roommates, snoring has negative implications on your sleep quality. If your respiratory system is not working properly, then your body is not receiving the oxygen that is required to repair the body during sleep. In extreme cases, this can lead to sleep apnea or [...]
“But I am not flexible enough to practice yoga.”

“But I am not flexible enough to practice yoga.”

Understanding Flexibility Flexibility is not just the ability to move muscles and joints through their complete range. It’s also an attitude that invests and transforms the mind as well as the body. According to Michael Alter, author of Science of Flexibility (Human Kinetics, 1998), current research demonstrates that individual muscle fibres can be stretched to [...]
Yoga for Eyes

Yoga for Eyes

Release Eye Tension with Yoga for Eyes With the progress of digitalization and the endless opportunities to be online, we inevitably fix our eyes more and more on screens during daily life. The eyesight-related problems resulting from looking at screens are called Computer Vision Syndromes (CVS) and may include: eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision and dry [...]
Yoga for Seniors – Sun Salutation on a Chair

Yoga for Seniors – Sun Salutation on a Chair

Chair Yoga for Seniors One often forgotten group of people that can greatly benefit from a regular yoga practice are senior citizens. Even if you are not in this group, you likely have parents, aunts and uncles or grandparents you can introduce to yoga so that they may reap the benefits of yoga for seniors. [...]
Yoga in 2020 – From Social Norms to Inner Observance

Yoga in 2020 – From Social Norms to Inner Observance

The Inner World of Niyamas In part one we discussed the Yamas. Read the article here. Part two will look into the Niyamas, which are positive duties or observances. As the Yamas are more directed towards society, the Niyamas are more internally directed.   Śaucha Saucha means cleanliness or purity. A certain hygiene is required [...]