#advancedasana

[yogashraddhasblog]

When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.

[ashtangini]

Yamas and niyamas are descriptive of how an integrated person chooses to act. Meeting the world is a daily challenge to practice our yoga 24/7. Life itself will bring us the experiences we need to ground our practice in real life paired with non-reActiveness.~#yogachallenge #advancedyoga #advancedasana #yogalife #yogilifestyle #yoga #yamas #niyamas #practice #walkthetalk https://www.instagram.com/p/BwYtePZlQdh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n8o9xtgbypx9

[wehealtogether]

This week's advanced asana? Vrschikasana or Scorpion forearm stand ⚡ Join me Thursday evening at 5:45pm at @thespot326 to explore different variations of this shape. We will use props, the wall, and support from our fellow yogis to master this asana! #masterclass #advancedasana #scorpionstand #doyourwork #yoga (at Bowling Green, Kentucky)

[lotusfloweryoga]

#armbalances #yogaarmbalances #yoga #yogaeverdameday #yogi #yogic #yogini #chairpose #yogapose #advancedasana #core #strong #dance

[wyayoga]

This Sunday celebrates our yoga life movement @adinath_yoga_ashram join #karmayoga Class with #gurudharm Because Union is within us. #loveyoga #lovepeople #lovehumanity #yogacommunity #yogalife #bio #hathayoga #thailandyoga #indianyoga #teachercertification #wyayoga #advancedasana #wyacertified #yogateacher (at WYA Thailand Yoga)

[wyayoga]

Join Upcoming Workshop at WYA Urban Yoga Ubon #yogalife #loveyoga #gurudharm #masterdharm #worldyogaalliance #wyateachers #yogawithlove #hathayogi #advancedasana #bestyoga #yogaworkshop #yogaworkshopthailand #20october2018 (at Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand)

[wyayoga]

www.adinath.com Chin Stand Pose in Sanskrit originally we called Ganda Bherundasana and the translation of the Sanskrit name is "Formidable Face Pose" Benefit: help to build up concentration power and Core muscles strength: #chinstand #advancedasana #lovepractice #adinathashram😍 #wyafamily #wyayoga #wyateachers #gurudharm (at AdiNath Yoga Ashram)

[simonborgolivier]

️Here I am demonstrating going from a lotus arm balance to a handstand lotus, then drop over to a backarch then flip over to the splits. This part of a performance I did in front of thousands of School children at the Olympic stadium. This sequence is an excellent abdominal and trunk/spinal strengthening exercise that is really energising, exhilarating and lots of fun if you have an easy pain free back-bend. 🌞TIPS: 🌄(1) To lift to handstand push your sitting bones downwards to activate you rectus abdominis and breathe into your abdomen. 🌠(2) To 'flip-over' from the back-bend shift your body weight from your feet to hands and 'take-off' when the body weight is over your hands. Lift your head as you lift your feet off the ground. Keep your knees bent throughout the flips until you become very fluid. Learn to do it as slow and controlled as possible (holding in scorpion and lolasana if possible) to achieve maximum strength and control over your trunk. Stabilise your shoulders by keeping your armpits pushing towards your chest to create tha-amsa (shoulder) bandha. As you flip over grip with your fingers into the floor to stabilise the wrists (ha-mani bandha) 🌟 (3) For the splits prepare the front leg by activating the knee extensors (pull up your knee caps) and hip flexors ('stretch the mat with your feet') to lengthen and relax your hamstrings and prepare the back leg by lengthening the psoas and other hip flexors. (Practice and try come to the splits from handstand without bending the knees - in this video I am sloppy!) 👳CAUTIONS: Many people do the 'flip over' movement as a 'walkover', ie one leg at a time. This is ok to do but has a very different effect on strength-training and can cause problems in your spine especially if you always kick over with the same leg. So please practice both sides ! For more information on our live and online courses see http://yogasynergy.com/training #asana #advancedasana #padmasana #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogaphysiology #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining #simonborgolivier #breathpower #pranayama

[simonborgolivier]

Supta Bhekasana: (the inverted frog pose): One of my favourite movements in the Yoga Synergy Water Sequence, which I will teach later this week in our sydney vinyasa intensive. It is quite fun going from Supta Virasana to Supta Bhekasana. You need to kind of wriggle and squiggle (that's yogic technical jargon!) to get your hands under your feet. Keep your neck safe with a tha-jalandhara bandha (throat forward and head up), lengthen the front of your hips moving your sitting bones forward and up and the top of hops down to lengthen your lower back, then breathe diaphragmatically to expand the front of your body, release your lower back, stimulate the psoas muscle, stimulate your kidneys and bring blood to your digestive system. Mr Iyengar once told that these postures are great therapy if you feel you have really eaten too much. He said do these postures for about twenty minutes then you can go and eat some more food! Mr Iyengar was such a great man with an amazing sense of humour and jest. He made yoga so much fun when we studied with him. Thanks and love to you Guruji. #advancedasana #pranayama #bhekasana #digestion #funyoga #yogateachertraining #yogaphysiology #yogasynergy #yogaanatomy #yogadance #iyengar

[simonborgolivier]

Surfing kids yoga: it is harder to do this as they get older. This is son Eric age 5 doing dhanurasana on my mayurasana and then trying to surf. I didn't expect him to jump up and down though! Kids just make up their own moves hey! The trick for me however is just to stay relaxed and keep breathing diaphragmatically into a very relaxed abdomen. This l can really help to teach you be relaxed while your kids (or anyone) is 'on your back'! #kidsyoga #mayurasana #armbalance #advancedasana #funyoga #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining

[simonborgolivier]

Eka Hasta Mayura Trivikramasana: A one-handed arm balance in the splits! - Amazing!. This is Kim Wainer (@movementbykim) who I am very proud to have called my apprentice (and my dear friend) for the last four years, as well as a brilliant Yoga Synergy teacher. I thoroughly enjoy doing yoga practice with her and have really enjoyed doing YogaDance performance with her, as she has been in a way a dedicated Yogini since her childhood. On the 9th of May my brilliant YogaSynergy Co-director Bianca Machliss and I are opening our new Yoga Synergy school in Bondi Junction (Sydney) and I am happy to say that Kim and I will be doing a special advanced asana yoga dance sequence as part of the opening ceremony. #advancedasana #handstand #splits #yogasynergy #bondi #yogadance #onehandbalance #yogateachertraining

[simonborgolivier]

🌞Fun transitions: ⚡️Padma Vrsikasna (lotus scorpion) to Urdhva Kukkutasana (lotus arm balance or 'raised rooster pose!): 👳This is great fun but you have to be careful for your lower back, especially when going from an extreme back-bending (such as a 'scorpion') to any extreme forward bend. 👳However in this case, although Sri BKS Iyengar says that 30 seconds in urdhva Kukkutasana is like 5 minutes in pascimottansana, there is no hamstring stretch, and the spinal flexion (forward bending) is done with trunk muscle control (mainly using the rectus abdominis and the diaphragm), so it is relatively safe. 👳It is really important never to bend forward if you are feeling a stretch in the back of the legs (especially hamstrings) and in the back of your spine at the same time. 👳Hence keeping the knees in lotus helps because it does not stretch the hamstrings; and using the rectus abdominis to control spinal flexion and extension while breathing diaphragmatically helps to reciprocally relax (spinal reflex) the muscles that tend to be over tense in the back and thus relieves risk of back damage and especially spinal nerve compression, while encouraging circulation... i.e. These type of movements make you really warm ! #asana #armbalance #advancedasana #bandha #backbend #breathpower #handstand #scorpion #kukkutasana #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining

[simonborgolivier]

🌞Fun transitions: 🌝one legged scorpion handstand: 🍄Eka Pada Vrscikasana: To get the best results: 👳(i) keep your 'scorpion' hip in extension and hold your ribs inwards by activating your central abdominal muscle (rectus abdominis), without tightening your muscles of forced abdominal exhalation (abdominal oblique muscles), which will harden the sides of the abdomen and inhibit the diaphragm, 👳(ii) activate your diaphragm by moving it towards your hips to breathe into your abdomen, which will increase the intra-abdominal pressure (increasing the ha-mula bandha) and which pulls on the origin of the psoas muscle (a hip flexor and a spinal extensor) causing further extension in the parts of spine that tend to be the stiffest (around the kidneys near the thoracic-lumbar junction), 👳(iii) breathe out from the chest, which calms the nerves, keeps the lower front ribs inwards and increases the spinal protective effect of ha-uddiyana bandha. 👳(iv) stabilise your shoulders by keeping your armpits pushing towards your chest to create tha-amsa (shoulder) bandha 👳(v) grip with your fingers into the floor to stabilise the wrists (ha-mani bandha) 🌟For more information join our courses starting May 2015 live in Sydney and online at http://yogasynergy.com/learning #asana #advancedasana #amsabandha #armbalance #bandha #backbend #breathpower #biancamachliss #scorpion #splits #scaryyoga #spinalmovements #simonborgolivier #yogadance #yogaanatomy #yogasynergy #yogaphysiology #yogateachertraining