Former yoga teacher in Wellington New Zealand
These variations for the position of your arms in Warrior I pose can challenge your balance to help improve body awareness in your legs, and give you added stretches in your chest, shoulders and back.
The Copenhagen adductor exercise is a creative way to strengthen the inner thigh muscles, but what does that have to do with yoga?
Tolasana or scale pose, requires core, arm and upper body strength. This gentle version is accessible to most people.
Lolasana requires core strength including your hip flexors, as well as arm strength. Plus it’s fun!
Here are the step by step instructions for a gentle version and full version of side plank (vasisthasana). If you find this pose difficult, try lifting your hips up and down as you breath in and out, instead of holding
These past few weeks many of the tips have focused on stretching the wrists and how to put pressure on them safely in yoga. It’s also good to give your wrists a rest. Sometimes not working the joints can allow
This brief yoga practice video focuses on core and upper body strength by using a block (but you don’t need a block).
These last few weeks, I’ve focused on core strength. I’ve just come across this short mini core workout using yoga poses from a favourite blog on yoga anatomy. Read the brief article for helpful tips about activating the muscles of
Last week I revisited the cue of tightening your armpits. I explained when you try to pull your armpits down, you’re actually tightening the muscles in your core around your sides and back. Not actually tightening your armpits. You can feel
You know all the stretches we do near the beginning while in a mini squat (known as chair pose)? The funny ones, where we roll shoulders forwards and back, and flex our wrists up and down? Those are all combinations