#Advanced Yoga Poses

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Celebrate Yoga Day 2024: Transform Your Health with Headstand (Sirsasana)

Introduction: Making sense of Understanding – The Journey to Headstand for Yoga Day 2024 As day breaks on Yoga Day 2024, we are on the edge of rediscovering change in our bodies and lives. Sirsasana or headstand is not an asana; it is an agreement of strength, attention and balance. In this all encompassing reframe we plunge straight into ancient experiences through Headstand with its emblematic…

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Unlock New Levels of Discipline and Focus with Advanced Yoga Poses

Introduction

In today's fast-paced and distracted world, finding discipline and focus can be a challenge. However, there is a powerful tool that can help you unlock new levels of discipline and focus - advanced yoga poses. In this article, we will explore how advanced yoga poses can transform your mind and body, and guide you towards a more disciplined and focused life.

The Power of Yoga

Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years and is renowned for its physical and mental benefits. It is not just a form of exercise, but a way of life that encompasses physical postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and ethical principles. By practicing yoga regularly, you can experience increased flexibility, strength, and balance, along with improved mental clarity and emotional well-being.

Taking Yoga to the Next Level

While basic yoga poses offer numerous benefits, advanced yoga poses take your practice to a whole new level. These poses require a higher level of strength, flexibility, and concentration, pushing your boundaries and challenging you both physically and mentally. By practicing advanced poses, you can unlock new levels of discipline and focus that extend far beyond your yoga mat.

Discipline and Focus on the Mat

Advanced yoga poses demand discipline and focus. They require you to stay present in the moment, listen to your body, and push through discomfort. As you work towards mastering these poses, you develop a sense of discipline that spills over into other areas of your life. You become more committed, dedicated, and focused in pursuing your goals.

Discipline and Focus off the Mat

The discipline and focus you cultivate through advanced yoga poses are not limited to your yoga practice. They carry over into your daily life, helping you stay focused on your tasks, make healthier choices, and overcome challenges. You become more resilient, determined, and able to navigate through life's ups and downs with grace and composure.

Anecdotes and Random Facts

Did you know that the Lotus Pose (Padmasana) is considered one of the most advanced yoga poses? It requires deep hip flexibility and is often associated with meditation and spiritual awakening.

Many advanced yoga poses have animal names, such as Crow Pose (Bakasana), Camel Pose (Ustrasana), and Scorpion Pose (Vrischikasana). These poses mimic the strength, grace, and agility of the animals they are named after.

Advanced yoga poses not only challenge your physical abilities but also test your mental fortitude. They teach you patience, perseverance, and the importance of self-belief.

Conclusion

If you are looking to unlock new levels of discipline and focus in your life, advanced yoga poses are the key. By practicing these poses, you can cultivate discipline and focus both on and off the mat, leading to a more fulfilling and purposeful life. So roll out your yoga mat, challenge yourself with advanced poses, and embrace the transformative power of yoga.

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The 10 Best Yoga Poses Ever? | Akram Yoga & Personal Training

In Today's video, Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Zahir Akram shares with you his 10 favourite yoga poses ever.

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The 10 Best Yoga Poses Ever? | Akram Yoga & Personal Training

In Today's video, Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Zahir Akram shares with you his 10 favourite yoga poses ever.

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Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Zahir Akram shares with you his 10 favourite yoga poses ever.

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How he sleep like that

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Super Soldier pose | Hip opener | Yoga

Super Soldier Yoga pose isn’t a traditional yoga pose, but gained popularity on social media, especially Instagram. Many yoga practitioners have tried this challenging pose over the years. It does resemble Surya Yantrasana or Compass Pose Here’s a wonderful tutorial I found on Pinterest. As a part of a yoga challenge last week, I, too, attempted this pose. I had tried to do this last year, but…

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Practice the Best Yoga on Pole Workouts for Proper Fitness

There are many poses of yoga on pole exercises. Here are some of them such as:

 • Pole dancing –The pole yoga workout where the dancers utilize their bodies to move all over the poles.

 • Pole fitness – This is pole yoga, where people utilize poles to work out with their arms, legs, abs, and core.

 • Pole acrobatics – This yoga exercise utilizes poles to do stunts and tricks.

 • Pole gymnastics – This pole yoga is the same as pole acrobatics, apart from gymnasts performing twists and flips despite only standing over poles.

Advanced Equipment

The pole at PolGa: Pole Yoga is one of the essential parts of equipment for pole yoga. It is similar to an extensive metal bar with grasps on the end, which clutch your hands and feet as you move it. The grasp might be encircling or flat — this usually depends on what sort of pole you utilize.

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Yoga Day 2024: Stretch Your Way to Increase Heights with Yoga

Introduction: The Affiliation Between Yoga and Stature As the yoga community around the world plans to celebrate Yoga Day 2024, interest has risen around the potential benefits of yoga and its well-documented impacts on mental and physical prosperity. Among these is the captivating credibility that certain yoga sharpeners can contribute to extended height. This web diary jumps into the…

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YOGA FOR PREGNANT WOMEN: BEST SEVEN RECOMMENDED POSTURES FOR THE FIRST TRIMESTER

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🎀 Workout Youtubers

I currently do exclusively pilates and yoga workouts from youtube. However, I've done other body weight workouts with various youtube videos and seen results in the past. Here is my list of workout youtubers that you could check out! I will put a * next to my personal favorites! I will include a short list of my current at home workout equipment at the end as well as some items I plan on buying soon!

With any workout program or routine, always be safe, check with your doctor if necessary, and if something doesn't feel good or right, don't do it! No matter what your goals are, it's always important to be safe and stay healthy. Please always take care of yourselves and know how beautiful, worthy and valuable you are no matter what! I love you all <333

🩷 Pilates

Move with Nicole * (also posts occasionally barre and yoga videos as well! I love her videos so so much)

Madeleine Abeid

IsaWelly

Pilatesbodyraven

Lidia Mera

Lottie Murphy

Amanda Blauer

Margaret Elizabeth

Jessica Valant Pilates

Bailey Brown

Dansique Fitness

Flow with Mira

Sivi (she's began posting some pilates inspired workouts and to my knowledge is currently getting certified as an instructor)

🩷 Yoga

Yoga with Adriene *

Yoga with Bird

Boho Beuatiful Yoga

🩷 Bodyweight Fitness/Strength/HIIT

Chloe Ting * (I don't like the click bait, but I like the workouts)

Blogilates

Pamela Reif *

Madfit *

Lilly Sabri * (Some of her videos are titled with pilates, but the older ones I used to do were not pilates, so I categorized her here)

Emi Wong

Shirlyn Kim

Vivian Yuan

April Han

growingannanas

growwithjo * (I love her walking workouts)

Hinafit

Mish Choi

Sami Clarke

Elenifit

Coach Kel (she posts what looks like more barre, ballet, pilates inspored/fusion workouts it seems)

Caroline Girvan

TRAIN WITH GAINSBYBRAINS

Daisy Keech

🎀 Current At Home Workout Equipment I Own

Thick Yoga Mat - since I do mainly yoga and pilates my thick yoga may (amazon brand) has served me well. Even tho I am a heavier woman at the moment, I've never had pain or any issues with this mat, and it came with a carry strap which I love! A good, thick workout mat is definitely necessary for working out at home for comfort, safety, etc. Make sure to disinfect it on occasion, especially if you sweat on it a lot!

Resistance Bands - I have about 3 or 4 at different resistance strengths, and they're incredibly useful for a variety of movements, especially lower body ones. They add some extra resistance and make the workouts a bit more challenging when you need something more advanced. I also got mine from Amazon/Walmart a while back. I prefer fabric over rubber because I like to wear workout shorts instead of workout leggings.

Pilates Ball - not a necessity, but useful with some pilates workouts and movements. I have seen sole videos using this, but am not advanced enough to try it on my own yet. Will use for sure once I'm more advanced.

3lb dumbbells - I thought these would be useful for the pilates workouts that had some upper body focus, and as someone who wants to develop a lean and toned upper body, they are perfect for low weight high rep, controlled movements. Again, not advanced enough to use as I want to master my form, but they're gonna come in handy for sure!

Foam Roller - so so good for stretching and muscle recovery on rest days. I love mine but want one that has the bump things on it to help my muscles more. I can imagine how good it'll feel on my legs during a recovery day when I begin wieght lifting again.

Massage Gun - my holy grail for the days I am sore and needing some recovery. my body feels like jelly after using this, and it's just so nice for the days my muscles feel extra tight and super sore.

🎀 Equipment I Want To Buy

Yoga Blocks - these will help me get deeper into the yoga poses once I get more advanced in my practice

Pilates Ring - this honestly looks so fun and challenging to use, I'd love to add it to my collection of useful workout equipment!

Jump Rope - I used to love this as a form of cardio and as long as I don't move into an upstairs apartment, I'm definitely buying one

Pilates Bar - still iffy on this one, it's supposed to mimic a reformer but I want to get better at mat pilates and see if I even end up ever needing or seriously wanting to buy it, its on my list tho

Ankle/Wrist weights - these are gonna be so useful for workouts where hand held dumbbells aren't useful. Want to buy some low weight ones just to help with resistance and extra strength during pilates workouts

Kettlebell weight - I think this would be useful for a workout at home type situation if and when I switch to not doing just pilates and yoga. I know these are useful in their own right, but not needed in my current fitness stage of life.

Core Sliders - these look fun and interesting. They're on my lost for sure, but not sure about the practicality of their use in my life just yet.

That's all that's currently on my at home workout equipment list! As someone who primarily works out at home, the things I currently own are most useful and most of what's on this list is for fun or extra challenge. Just not necessary yet.

hope you enjoyed this list! if you have any questions about my favorite youtuber workout instructors or favorite videos, please feel free to ask, I've tried so many and can give some guidance from my own experience and research.

til next time lovelies 🩷

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In Today's video, Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Zahir Akram shares with you his 10 favourite yoga poses ever.

[moondirti]

I just know, in my heart of hearts, that those men can bench press a bull but have zeeeeero flexibility/mobility because they don't train it. Pigeon pose? Can barely get their elbows on the floor. Half splits? More like quarter splits. Camel pose? They have already given up.

Cue: yogi/dancer reader, determined to get them to take care of their bodies by teaching the powers of Stretching Properly. And maybe also showing off a little bit...

yoga! reader is brought on to teach the boys how to manage stress through wellness exercises. they’re just so used to the rough and tumble, the physical demands that beat them to a pulp, that it’s almost a necessity at this point. like yeah, they’re complete units, but that doesn’t account for shit when their backs ache so bad in their 30’s and their knees pop every time they crouch – not to mention, how high their blood pressure is from all the exertion.

you’re the top instructor in the region, vetted by laswell and sent to base twice a week to host 90-minute ashtanga classes. which is a form of yoga that doubles as an excellent introduction into flexibility and posturing, or so you tell the begrudging men upon meeting them

though i can't stop picturing what type of student each of them would be–

gaz is a teachers pet, without a doubt. not lacking the reservations the others hold, but willing to try once he sees you bend over in a pair of skin-tight leggings the first time. brings you water and snack bars without having to ask. is the first to arrive to your sessions, even earlier than you do sometimes, and rolls his mat out right behind yours (which he claims is the best spot to get a sense of what you're doing – uncontested, seeing as he mimics you perfectly every time – but it's really because it has the best view of your ass). starts practicing alone in his room so he can impress you with a super cool pose that he totally didn't get off the internet, and ends up spraining his wrist because said pose actually isn't meant for rookies like him! pouts when you scold him the next day – there's a reason i didn't teach it, garrick – and spends the rest of the month sulking after you demote him to simple stretches.

soap doesn't try to hide his intentions. he's outwardly flirty in every capacity imaginable. the logic is, if he's being forced to come here, why pretend he's interested in anything other than the pretty thing teaching him? will pull up in the sluttiest shorts imaginable – i'm talking the tightest hoochie daddy pair in his closet – and a white undershirt, every muscle flexed to its limits. flashes you a big smile when you roll your eyes at his appearance and asks if you'd like to touch them. nae many men are built lik' me, bonnie. might nae git this chance again. definitely pretends to struggle to beckon your attention, despite being the most flexible of the 141. throws a fuss every time you instruct them to take a pyramid pose, complains until you personally position him. huffs and groans as your hands pull his legs the correct distance apart, taking note of the flustered furrow of your brow so when he approaches you after class, he has something to build his advances off of.

price pretends he's far above this whole affair, even though he's the one who needs it the most. will chuckle condescendingly when you ask why he's just sitting to the side, a cigar in hand as he 'supervises' the activities. don' get me wrong, lovie. s'sweet how dedicated you are. but i'm not subscribing to none of this... mm, business. you think it's a masculinity thing – older men are usually more averse to embracing yoga, seeing as it's a female-dominated exercise and they were raised in households that barred that sort of thing. in reality, price is just hesitant to make a fool of himself in front of his men. his joints creak when he moves and he can't touch his toes without toppling over, never mind contorting into intricate poses. the misunderstanding sets off more than one disagreement, and after a particularly rough day – wherein the two of you hashed it out in front of everybody – he starts to feel a tiny bit guilty. you're trying so hard, after all, driving out all this way to help some poor sods get over their physical impediments. so he opts to catch you on your way out to the parking lot, confessing the real reason why his participation is lacking before inviting you to his office for a private session.

ghost doesn't show up. no, seriously. you never see him, though you're aware of his absence; your attendance lists four soldiers, after all. you give him the benefit of the doubt for three weeks before reporting to laswell of his failure to meet expectations – only to be accosted by a big man in a skull balaclava on your way out. if y'wanted to me to watch you bend over so badly, pet, all you had ta do was ask.

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Work out attempt…

I struggled to pull the shorts over my ass but when I finally did I could feel them squeezing it tightly. The shirt I had chosen to wear felt more snug on my swollen breasts. I was going to wear an old sports bra but when I had tried pulling it over my boobs it wouldn’t budge.

My intent was to make a yoga video. I hadn’t done yoga since I had gained 60lbs+. The last time I had done it I had defined abs and weighed 120lbs. I was no longer in shape as I once was.

the first poses were simple but I could still feel how tight everything felt I could feel my new weight making me feel heavier. I had always taken the advanced version of poses before however now when I attempted them I could feel my fat getting in the way of my flexibility.

I had been decently flexible before but now my own body was preventing me from bending fully the way that I had. My breathing increased as I struggled to hold poses for more then 10 or 20 seconds.

I was so surprised that this was so challenging for me. I mean I should still have some muscle right? But when I looked at my thighs that had nearly doubled in size and were covered in stretch marks and cellulite it made sense.

New yoga video tomorrow ☺️

[chelledoggo]

weird dumb TADC headcanon:

Ragatha once tried to teach the other circus members yoga to help them relax.

Gangle got tangled up and her mask fell off. Kinger just flomped over on the mat and fell asleep. Zooble's limbs fell off during an advanced pose. Pomni tried to take it seriously but Jax kept being an annoying a-hole and purposely throwing her off balance.

all while Caine just watched from behind the scenes, confounded yet weirdly entertained by it all.

"so this is how humans relax, huh? well, that certainly would explain a lot, wouldn't it?"