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Ardha chandrasana vs. Virabhdrasana 3 Yoga poses - Click Image to Watch
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Ardha chandrasana vs. Virabhdrasana 3 Yoga poses
Ardha Chandrasana is sanskrit for Half moon pose. Virabhdrasana is sanskrit for Warrior pose, in this case this was the third variation of warrior.
These poses although they look similarly and have the same benefits one the first platform of our body (the feet), it differs structurally in the second (hips) and third (shoulders) platforms of the body. This video will teach you the difference between those platforms in the body so you can practice these poses safely.
As you begin practicing this, feel free to use blocks or the support of the wall as your muscle memory grows so that you can do it independently.
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Vrksasana: Tree pose Yoga variations - Click Image to Watch
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Vrksasana: Tree pose Yoga variations
Tree pose is often times the most well known yoga pose, may that be due to its simplicity or the reminder that it creates for us connecting us back to our source.
It is a standing pose that helps increase balance and strength in the standing leg. If you use the rooting technique in the standing foot it helps elevate the arches of your foot which will help structurally in your body with all things in life from walking, to correcting your posture, and so on.
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Should Stand: Yoga variations - Click Image to Watch
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Should stand: Yoga variations is a video that teaches you how to do the different shoulder stand variations. While headstands are fire building; shoulder stands are cooling poses.
the benefits of this pose:
*Stimulating the thyroid and parathyroid glands and improving hormonal balance
*Strengthening the arms, shoulders, and upper spine
*Increasing flexibility in the spine
*Increasing blood flow to the upper back and brain, energizing the nervous system
*Improving digestion
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Circles in the body: Yoga - Click Image to Watch
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Circles in the body: Yoga
When we practice yoga, there are several different common groups of shapes that we can make. This is a way of classifying the yoga poses as well as remembering some of their benefits as they share commonalities.
Circle poses in yoga help create flexibility in the spine and open up the heart by stretching the pectoral muscles. They also help increase shoulder flexibility.
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Headstands: Yoga variations - Click Image to Watch
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Headstands: Yoga variations
some of the benefits of these headstand variations are:
*Improves body awareness, cardiovascular circulation, and posture
*Reduces swelling and venous congestion in the lower extremities
*Relaxes the heart and the adrenal glands
*Increases blood flow to the head, neck, and face
*Calms the mind and alleviates stress and depression
*strengthens shoulders, neck and arms
watch this video to learn how to do the different variations! make sure that if you are new to yoga you practice against a wall and with a spotter.
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Mini warrior sequence: Training video - Click Image to Watch
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Mini warrior sequence: Training video
in this video i had a friend visiting me in the beautiful Ecadorian forest. The poses in this video that you will see are some of the most common yoga poses used in classes today so take a while to watch through this and try observing the techniques to improve and deepen each pose.
This is especially good for aspiring yoga teachers to see how corrections are made and adjusted.
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Yoga for your arms - Click Image to Watch
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Yoga for your arms
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Iyengar Beginner sequence - Click Image to Watch
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Iyengar Beginner sequence
Iyengar was born as the 11th child of 13, however 3 passed away due to these times being plagued by the influenza virus. Iyengar himself, had been exposed to many major illness in his youth leaving him very sickly with muscle deterioration, so much so that his head hung low requiring great effort in lifting it. Thanks to his cousin he started practicing the different yoga asanas in a 15 day intensive and felt like that had changed his whole life making him into the great man and teacher he became!
This video shows the first sequence that can be found in one of his books the Light on Yoga, which is a book i consider to be the holy grail of asanas. If you enjoy the sequence, or want to improve your practice his step-by-step cues to getting in and out of poses safely are straight forward and extensive, then you can continue one with the other sequences found in the glossary. they continuously build upon one another strengthenig your body.
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Lyengar Week 2 - Click Image to Watch
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Lyengar Week 2
Iyengar was born as the 11th child of 13, however 3 passed away due to these times being plagued by the influenza virus. Iyengar himself, had been exposed to many major illness in his youth leaving him very sickly with muscle deterioration, so much so that his head hung low requiring great effort in lifting it. Thanks to his cousin he started practicing the different yoga asanas in a 15 day intensive and felt like that had changed his whole life making him into the great man and teacher he became!
This video shows the first sequence that can be found in one of his books the Light on Yoga, which is a book i consider to be the holy grail of asanas. If you enjoy the sequence, or want to improve your practice his step-by-step cues to getting in and out of poses safely are straight forward and extensive, then you can continue one with the other sequences found in the glossary. they continuously build upon one another strengthenig your body.
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Lyengar Week 3 - Click Image to Watch
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Lyengar Week 3
Iyengar was born as the 11th child of 13, however 3 passed away due to these times being plagued by the influenza virus. Iyengar himself, had been exposed to many major illness in his youth leaving him very sickly with muscle deterioration, so much so that his head hung low requiring great effort in lifting it. Thanks to his cousin he started practicing the different yoga asanas in a 15 day intensive and felt like that had changed his whole life making him into the great man and teacher he became!
This video shows the first sequence that can be found in one of his books the Light on Yoga, which is a book i consider to be the holy grail of asanas. If you enjoy the sequence, or want to improve your practice his step-by-step cues to getting in and out of poses safely are straight forward and extensive, then you can continue one with the other sequences found in the glossary. they continuously build upon one another strengthenig your body.
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