
Perform butterfly pose with knees out to the sides and soles pressed together, holding your feet to open your back and relax your neck, or stay more upright.
Practice boat pose: sit on a towel, knees near the chest, lean back to lift the legs parallel to the ground, keep the chest open and shoulders back.
Shift from a low lunge into half moon pose, lift back leg parallel, stack weight from hip to knee to heel, and reach up to open hips and build balance.
Practice revolved half moon pose from a low lunge to build balance and circulation by twisting the chest, stacking the shoulders, and aligning the back leg parallel to the ground.
Learn the standing split pose from 50 yoga poses to promote harmony in your life, shifting weight to one leg, lifting your other behind, and deepening the hip with blocks.
Shift weight onto one foot, wrap the other leg around the standing leg into eagle pose, then sink hips and lift elbows to balance while strengthening thighs and opening hips.
In dolphin pose, lift into a forearm-supported high V from hands and knees to strengthen arms and shoulders; walk feet toward the elbows and keep the belly lifted.
Enter a handstand by shifting weight forward, placing the palms, lifting the leg into a wide scissor, then draw the legs together to balance and strengthen the arms and core.
Extend the hand to big toe pose by holding the left foot's big toe at the hip, then extend the leg to the side.
Cow pose from hands and knees arches the back, releasing the abdomen and opening the chest and upper spine; exhale to release tension, inhale to pull shoulders back.
Perform bridge pose by interlacing fingers beneath you, lifting the hips, and gently holding the ankles to open the upper spine and lengthen the middle and upper chest.
Practice wheel pose by lying on back, bending knees, placing hands beside your head, and lifting hips with breath, rocking gently to open chest, spine, hips, and thighs.
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Course Updated on 2nd May 2016. Earlier the course was having only 47 yoga poses; now we have added 3 more. Now its 50 Yoga poses to bring harmony into your life. Enjoy the new lectures while practising the old poses...
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Yoga has become a very popular form of exercise, however, some styles focus primarily on physically working the back, for instance: the most important Yoga poses in this case will differ from others, remaining the most important Yoga poses for another kind of Yoga. There are also very difficult one might focus on in other styles of Yoga designed to stretch and strengthen other specific parts of the body, and many that work the entire body, treating the body as left and right equals yin and yang.
Yoga poses are the best way to maintain the body flexible, supple and toned up without exerting any force on the body. There is a certain subtlety in this ancient eastern system of body maintenance which keeps one in tune with nature.
Modern lifestyle takes its toll in terms of physical and mental health. Hypertension and diabetes are common ailments and the beneficiaries are pharma firms. Resources that should be spent on other productive channels are wasted in shoring up a tiring body that becomes an open invitation to premature aging and a host of diseases.
There are specific Yoga poses for the floor parts of Yoga exercise, as well as the more familiar standing Yoga poses.