• Chair Pose: Utkatasana
    Chair Pose: Utkatasana

    As a standing yoga posture, Chair Pose engages the upper and lower body as it generates an array of nourishing benefits.  The Chair Pose:

    • Strengthens the hip flexor msucles, the front of your thighs, you adductor musclces of your inner thighs and the gluteus mesucles of your hips.
    • Strengthens and stretches your calf muscles.
    • Opens your chest and shoulders.
    • Improves the range of motion in your ankles.
    • Increases proprioception (or the sense of position in space) in your feet.
  • Warrior I Pose: Virabhadrasana I
    Warrior I Pose: Virabhadrasana I

    Warrior One pose is a classic standing yoga posture.  Warrior One:

    • Strengthens your shoulders, arms, thighs, ankles and the muscles of your back.
    • Expands your chest, lungs and shoulders.
    • Stretches your hip flexors, abdomen, and ankles.
    • Develops stamina and endurance in your thighs and core muscles.
  • Warrior III Pose: Virabhadrasana III
    Warrior III Pose: Virabhadrasana III

    Warrior Three is a classic balancing yoga posture that offers numerous benefits.  Warrior Three:

    • Strengthens your back, leg, shoulder and arm muscles.
    • Stretches your hamstrings and out thighs.
    • Expands your chest, lungs and shoulders.
    • Improves your memory and concentration.
    • Improves your core awareness, posture, balance and coordination.
    • Tones and invigorates your whole body.
    • Builds core strength in your torso, abdomen, spine and pelvic floor.
    • Quiets your mind, calms your nervous system and reduces anxiety.
    • Stimulates your abdominal organs and digestion.
  • Eagle Pose: Garudasana
    Eagle Pose: Garudasana

    Eagle Pose is a warming balancing yoga pose that delivers a wealth of health benefits.  Eagle Pose:

    • Strengthens your thighs, ankles, and calves.
    • Stretches your shoulders, arms and upper back.
    • Develops focus and concetnration as it improves your balance and coordination.
  • Tree Pose: Vrksasana
    Tree Pose: Vrksasana

    Tree Pose is a classic balancing yoga posture that offers numerous benefits.  Tree Pose:

    • Stretches your inner thighs, groin and shoulders.
    • Strengthens your thighs, calves, core, and foot muscles.
    • Strengthens your posture.
    • Calms and relaxes your mind and central nervous system.
    • Develops balance.
    • Increases your mind / body awareness.
  • Warrior II Pose: Virabhadrasana II
    Warrior II Pose: Virabhadrasana II

    Warrior Two Pose is a classic standing yoga posture designed to engage the body with a conditioning energy and focus.  Warrior Two:

    • Strengthens your shoulders, arms, thighs, legs and ankles.
    • Stretches your groins, thighs, and ankles.
    • Expands your chest, lungs and shoulders.
    • Stimulates abdominal organs and digestion.
    • Increases stamina and endurance.
  • Triangle Pose: Utthita Trikonasana
    Triangle Pose: Utthita Trikonasana

    The Triangle Pose is a classicstanding yoga posture that offers numerous benefits.  The Triangle Pose:

    • Expands your chest and shoulders.
    • Increases mobility of your hip joints.
    • Increases neck mobility.
    • Stretches your spinal muscles.
    • Strengthens and tones muscles of your thights.
    • Stretches calf muscles, hamstrings, and hip musculature.
    • Increases proprioception (the sense of position in space) of feet and ankles.
  • Gate Pose: Parighasana
    Gate Pose: Parighasana

    The Gate Pose is a side bending yoga posture that generates an array of nourshing benefits.  The Gate Pose:

    • Stretches your hamstrings.
    • Strecther your adductor muscles and your calf muscles.
    • Stretches the accessory muscles of breathing between your ribs.
    • Stretched you torso muscles.
    • Opens your chect and shoulders.
    • Stregthens the oblique muscles of the core.
  • Revolved Triangle Pose: Parivrtta Trikonasana
    Revolved Triangle Pose: Parivrtta Trikonasana

    The Revolved Triangle Pose is a classic standing and twisting yoga posture that requires special attention to alignment details in order to offer its numerous benefits.  The Revolved Triangle Pose:

    • Expands your chest and shoulders.
    • Increases neck mobility.
    • Stretches your spinal muscles and increases spinal range of motion.
    • Strengthens and tones muscles of your tighs.
    • Stretches your calf muscles, hamstrings, and hip musculature.
    • Can relieve upper back tension.
    • Increases proprioception (or the sense of position in space) of your feet and ankles.
  • Half Moon Pose: Ardha Chandrasana
    Half Moon Pose: Ardha Chandrasana

    The Half Moon Pose is a balancing posture that delivers a wealth of health benefits.  The Half Moon Pose:

    • Expands your chest and shoulders.
    • Increases mobility of your hip joints.
    • Increases neck mobility.
    • Lengthens your sprinal muscles.
    • Strengthens and tones muscles of your thighs and calves.
    • Stretches your hamstrings and goin muscles.
    • Increases proprioception (the sense of position in space) of the feet and ankles.
  • Mountain Pose: Tadasana
    Mountain Pose: Tadasana

    Mountain Pose is a foundation yoga posture for many of the other classic yoga poses and offers numerous benefits.  Moutain Pose:

    • Develops correct posture.
    • Strengthens your thighs, ankles and feet.
    • Tones your abdominal muscles.
    • Calms and clears your mind and nervous system.
    • Acts as a posture for resting during a yoga practice.
    • Acts as a position for centering.
  • Extended Side Angle Pose: Utthita Parsvakonasana
    Extended Side Angle Pose: Utthita Parsvakonasana

    The Extendend Side Angle Pose:

    • Strengthens your thighs, hips, knees, and ankles.
    • Stretches your groin, back, spine, waist, ankles, lungs (intercostals) and shoulders.
    • Massages and stimulates your abdominal organs.
    • Increases endurance and stamina.