Yoga Postures
Boat Pose- Boat Pose balances the entire body on your sitting bones. It builds your center core and is associated with willpower.
Bow Pose- Bow pose provides mental stimulation with increased energy and vitality. With regular practice, you can maintain eternal youth.
Cat Pose- Cat pose allows you to focus on movement with breath. It increases flexibility of the spine, keeping it strong and lengthened.
Camel Pose- Camel pose is an intense back bend. It opens up the heart chakra and is associated with love and inner emotions.
Child's Pose- The pose is called Child's pose because you form the shape of a baby and your spine is curved naturally like a fetus.
Cobra Pose- Cobra works on opening up four chakras within the body. It opens up the chest and reduces tension, stress and fatigue within the body.
Corpse Pose- Corpse pose is a relaxation pose that eliminate fatigue and keeps you calm. It is a very basic pose in yoga.
Downward Dog- Downward dog creates great sensations within the body. From your toes up to your hips, and down to your finger tips.
Fish Pose- Fish pose is known as "the destroyer" of all disease. It resembles the fish. It opens the lungs, heart, back and abdomen.
Headstand- Headstand has rejuvenating affects to the mind. It sharpens your memory, thinking power and increases mental alertness and clarity.
Legs Up- Legs up Pose is a restorative inversion. The body is relaxed, with the feet above the heart, allowing the heart to rest.
Plank Pose- Plank pose targets many areas of the body, mainly strengthening and toning the core. It is mostly seen in the sun salutation series.
Plough Pose- Plough pose does wonders to the body physically and mentally. It opens up all the chakras within the body simultaneously, creating balance.
Rabbit Pose- Rabbit pose brings the most stimulation to the crown of the head, which helps improve any hormonal imbalances.
Seated Twist- Unwinding with a seated twist is a great way to relieve stress, mild depression, anxiety and detoxify your body.
Shoulder Stand- Shoulder Stand reverses the effect of gravity by revitalizing the organs as pressure is relieved from the lower region of the body.
Standing Forward Bend- Forward Bends improve circulation, as fresh blood and nutrients are moving down to the brain, which is very calming on the body and mind.
Warrior I- Warrior I is a grounding pose that produces internal heat that purifies the body. It provides balance, confidence and builds stamina.
Wheel Pose- Wheel pose is a backbend that strengthens and lengthens every vertebrae, therefore increasing elasticity and flexibility of the spine.
