Joint Health
Parsvotanasana
- Category: Joint Health, Stress Relief
- Intense stretch of the hamstrings
- Relieves stiffness in legs and hips
- Abdominals are contracted and toned
- In correct alignment, shoulders are drawn back allowing for deeper breathing
Ardha Purvotanasana – Upward Facing Table
- Category: Fun
- Stretches wrists and shoulders
- Expands chest fully for deep breathing
Trianga Mukha Pachimotanasana
- Category: Joints
- Arches of feet are developed
- Hamstrings and quadriceps stretch
- Forward bending keeps abdominal organs healthy and trim
Classical Surya Namaskar
- Category: Basic Yoga Flow, Weight Loss, Get Energized, Joint Health
- Awakens and energizes the body
- Creates heat and stimulates heart rate
- Creates strength and flexibility
- Cultivates steadiness of breath and mind
Ardha Bhekasana – Half Frog Pose
- Category: Joint Health
- Therapeutic for sciatica as a baby backbend and thigh stretch
- Stretches the quadriceps and psoas
- Relief to knee joints
Shoulder Opener
- Category: Joint Health
- Helps to open and create mobility in the shoulders
- Opens chest and heart center
Malasana – Garland Pose
- Category: Joint health, stress and anxiety, detox
- Hip joint and lower back stretch
- Strength and elasticity to the ankles (option -place a rolled mat under heels if heels tend to lift off the ground)
- Tones the spine and makes one agile
- Relieves back ache
- Improves elimination
Padmasana – Lotus Pose
- Category: Anxiety, joints, brain
- Opens the hips, stretches hip flexors
- Orients pelvis and femurs in a strong external rotation
- Grounding and calming for mind
- Awakens energy
Parvritta Malasana – Garland Revolved
- Category: Detox, Joint health
- Hip joint and lower back stretch
- Strength and elasticity to the ankles (option -place a rolled mat under heels if heels tend to lift off the ground)
- Tones the spine and makes one agile
- Massages the abdominal organs with compression in twist
- Improves elimination
Pigeon Prep –Upright
- Category: Anxiety
- Opens your hips
- Great for stiffness in hips and legs
- Moves blocked energy in the pelvis
- With head of the arm bones back, posture corrects rounded shoulders
Parsvakonasana – Side Angle Pose
- Category: Anxiety, Detox, Joints
- Hip opener
- Tones ankles, knees and thighs
- Reduces sciatic and arthritic pain
- Increases peristaltic activity
- Aids in elimination
Pigeon Prep – Forward Fold
- Category: Anxiety
- Opens your hips
- Great for stiffness in hips and legs
- Moves blocked energy in the pelvis
- Calming and grounding
Salabasana – Locust Pose
- Category: Get Energized, Joint Health
- Strenghtens the lower back
- Brings elasticity to the spine
- Energizes body and mind
- Aids in digestion with natural massage of belly
- Helps to open and create mobility in the shoulders
Vashistasana – Sideways Facing Plank
- Category: Joint Health, strength and power
- Strengthens your core
- Places shoulder joint in therapeutic position while weight bearing
Adha Mukha Svanasana –Downward Facing Dog Pose
- Category: Get Energized, Joint Health, Detox, Strength, Brain
- Energizing and awakening
- Relieves pain and stiffness, in ankles and heels
- Opens and activates shoulder joints
- Stretches the hamstrings
- Stretches and awakens the spine
- Rejuvenates brain
- As diaphragm is lifted to chest cavity, rate of heart is slowed down