Name: Top 10 Beginner Yoga Poses - Online Yoga Classes
Uploaded: 2013-10-03T02:43:18.000Z
Duration: 23 min 20 s
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Hey guys. Welcome back to Reflexion Yoga. My name's Kyle. If you've been on the site

of course you know this young lady. This is Erin, she's one of our instructors. For today's

breakdown, she's going to be our model for Tadasana or 'mountain pose'. This is a very

posture that you see in almost every single one of our Yoga flows, so we wanted to give

quick posture breakdown to make sure that you're doing it with proper alignment.

So, Erin's going to get started at the top of our mat here. So the feet can be either

big toe mounds kissing and then just a slight sliver facing the heels or they can be inner

distance apart, whatever feels good for you. Erin's going to go inner hip width distance

facing forward and we start from the ground up here, so we're really rooting through the

the feet. That's the corner behind the big toe mound and pinky toe mound and then the

the heels. So when you root down through these parts of your feet, all ten toes should be

sort of wave back at your face. Moving up from there, we activate the quadriceps so

caps lift. We don't want to lock out or hyperextend the knees but we want to stay active. So Erin,

your left leg here to really pop it back, like hyper extend it. See like that, she's

muscle engagement. Know the difference, you'll feel this in your body. Know the difference

active and then really just throwing the legs back.

Now the tailbone is the biggest point of concern in Tadasana. Too many people tend to bring

back, go 'cheerleader butt' style. That's not good for anybody; a lot of crunching in

if we bring it too far forward, that doesn't look very comfortable either. So, the hips

the knees and then the shoulders are directly above the hips, so Erin's honoring the natural

of her spine and then on the inhale, we'll take the arms up high for mountain pose; Tadasana.

do me a favor and scrunch up real high. See, that's not comfortable for anyone. So we set

the arm bones back into the shoulder girdle and then raise the fingertips up towards the

to turn the pinkies in and then spread my hands to really tone up the muscles of the

forward, chin is slightly lifted and you'll notice Erin has one straight line from heels

to crown of head and out her hands, so that is our breakdown for Tadasana. I know it seems

a lot going on in a fairly simple pose, as you'll find that tends to be the case with

posture you visit as you get deeper into your practice. Please check us out for more posture

and full-length videos here at Reflexion Yoga. I think that's it for us. I'm Kyle, this is

˛ What's up guys? Welcome back to Reflexion Yoga. My name's Matt, this is Kyle and we're

to break down a pose that comes up a lot in Yoga practice; upward facing dog pose. We're

just going to talk as we do this, so just start out with downward facing dog, if you

downward facing dog, just take a moment here, find your distance and our focus here for

to be upward facing dog. So we're going to work through the Chaturanga. We have a breakdown

Chaturanga on our site, so we're really going to focus and get into detail on upward facing

forward to plank if you would, inhale. Exhale, Chaturanga, lower halfway down, thinking about

this external rotation of your shoulders. Good. Now from here, flip your feet, press

lift up through your heart. Come into upward facing dog. So first you'll notice the tops

have flipped over, so they're on the ground, so avoiding the tucked toes under. And then,

through your feet so much that your thigh bones start to lift up. Now, starting to get

on here. Think about rolling open through your shoulders and you'll notice Kyle doesn't

muscles around his elbows. He's not crunching here, he's rolling open and then his shoulder

working down. That allows for his heart to lift up, so his heart's breathing through

up through the crown of his head and he's not tilting his chin so that he's crunching

neck. He's reaching up through the crown of his head and then just reaching back through

this is kind of a breakdown of what's going on with upward facing dog. Go ahead and tuck

just press back to downward facing dog. So I just threw a lot of information at you there,

to watch this again; that's the beauty of this site. And be sure to check out all our

˛ Hi. Welcome back to Reflexion Yoga. My name is Ben, this is our lovely model Casey

going to be working into downward facing dog. Now we're going to begin this posture in tabletop.

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