5 minute Strong Standing Yoga Flow

Here's a quick and easy way to get some energy flowing!  It's amazing what 5 minutes can do.  This short vide can bring you energy and strength to your legs and core.  It is great if you are pressed for time and just need a small energetic shift to help you feel grounded, strong, open, and connected.



When stress hits, it sends chemical signals to the skeletal muscles.   The legs hold some of the largest skeletal muscles in the body. By strongly working the legs and core, you can help move stress hormones out of the body and feel more clear and grounded.

3 Ways to Improve your Chaturanga

Chaturanga Dandasana, or four-limbed staff pose (sometimes called low-plank pose) is a foundational pose for vinyasa flow yoga classes.  It is a pose that pose risk for injury when done with improper alignment.  This video is intended to give you a couple ways to practice the pose to fine tune your alignment and get in touch  with parts that should be engaging to keep your body safe and healthy.

Strategy number one is to really dial in youner alignment, finding the lines of the elbows facing forward, setting the elbows over the wrists and lowering the shoulders to elbow height.  This can be practiced with knees lowered to the ground or with consistant practice, knees lifted.
Strategy 2 is to strap around the elbows creating a hammock-like support for the torso.  With the weight of the body out of the equation it can be a great way for you to tap into the parts of the body that need to be working and tune into the more subtle energetics of the pose.
The third strategy is to use a set of blocks or a bolster under the ribcage.  This is another way to take the weight of the body out of the equation and fine-tune the alignment and structure of the pose so you use more awareness and less effort