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If you’re taking a yoga class and your teacher tells everybody to do Chaturanga here’s an alternative. It’s called knees, chest and chin pose. If you’re going to do it, make sure you have blocked handy so you can place a block underneath your chest and/or chin. Save this video and follow me for…

The Yamas and niyamas‘s are not meant to be easy. They are not meant to only be practiced if they are convenient. You have to be living under a rock to know the animals aren’t being tortured and unalive for me. There’s no one in the world that doesn’t know that. And if you know that and you…

This is your reminder to slow down and take a breath. #Breathing #BreathingExercise #StressRelief #pranayama

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Sutra 1.5 #Yoga #YogaSutrasOfPatanjali #YogaPhilosophy #YTT

Yoga arm balances! So much fun to do and great for mastering upper body strength! How many of these can you do? Challenge yourself and try them all! If you want to see a tutorial for any of them, let me know when the comments! #Yoga #YogaPose #ArmBalance #yogainspiration #yogachallenge

Iyengar is NOT easy. This is by far the most intense style of yoga I have ever practiced. Every time I take an Iyengar class, I am immediately reminded of the precision of these yoga poses. How they should be practiced and most importantly, the benefits they give you. We get into the pose using…

Save this post so you can practice the difference between warrior 1 and warrior 2. These are very different poses with very specific foot and arm positions. They both have different benefits and I want you to be able to practice them perfectly…

#Yoga #YogaTeacher #BeginnerYoga #HowToTeachBeginnerYoga #YTT

Yoga teachers if you are not breaking down how to do every single pose in a yoga beginner class, what are you doing? #Yoga #YogaTeacher #YTT #YogaForBeginners

Yoga Sutra 1.4. #Yoga #YogaPhilosophy #YogaSutrasOfPatanjali #YogaTeacher #YTT

The most embarrassing thing happened to me in Yoga tonight. Yes the thing that we never want to happen. It happened. #Yoga #YogaBloopers #YogaProblems #Funny.

Not all yoga classes are designed for complete beginners! Here's how to choose your first class without feeling completely lost. 🧘‍♀️ My beginner yoga guide is linked in my bio! #YogaForBeginners #FirstYogaClass #StartYoga #YogaTips

Do you have terrible balance? So do I. It doesn’t mean that you’re bad at Yoga. It just means that that’s your challenge. #Yoga #YogaPractice #YogaForBeginners #Balance

Here is a yoga tutorial on how to do eight crooked limbs pose. In Sanskrit, this pose is called ASTAVAKRASANA #astavakrasana ##YogaPose##YogaPoseTutorial##ArmBalance

Yoga Sutra 1.3 #yogasutrasofpatanjali #yoga #yogaphilosophy

Yoga teachers. I’m gonna hold your hand when I tell you this… Stop being afraid of your students. #Y#YogaY#YogaTeacherY#YogaTeacherTrainingY#YTTYogaClass

I never wanna be the reason somebody is screaming and crying and struggling and fighting for their life. If you consume Animal products and you are the reason an animal is screaming and crying and struggling and fighting for their life. You were the reason they are scared to death. If you are a…

Yoga teachers, if your students were looking around the room… You might be the problem… #Yog#Yogag#YogaTeacherg#YogaTeacherTrainingT#YTTgaClass

Yoga Sutra 1.1. Here, I am discussing the first sutra of the first book/chapter in the Yoga sutras of Patanjali I would love input from anybody who has any more information on this. Let’s discuss! I am not a Sanskrit scholar or professional so if if you are from Indian heritage, please feel free…

Let’s read the Yoga sutras of Patanjali together! If you didn’t read this in your teacher training or you’ve forgotten about it or if you read it, but don’t really understand it or if you are a Yoga student that just wants to learn about the Yoga sutras of Patanjali let’s learn them together! I am…

Question for the Yoga teachers out there. If you are teaching your class from the Matt while you are practicing every pose, who is watching your students? #Yoga #YogaTeacher #YogaTeacherTraining #Yogapose #yogatok

What’s the purpose of yoga? #Yoga #YogaPractice #YogaPhilosophy #8LimbsOfYoga #yogasutrasofpatanjali

Ahimsa. This is the first principal of the first thing of the eight limbs of Yoga. Possibly the most important part of Yoga one cannot reach Samadi without it. It means choosing non-harming, even if it is inconvenience and/or unpleasant for you. There are lots of things that we can choose to do…

There’s a big problem with Yoga at least in the United States. And I’m not even touching on cultural appropriation and how this version of West washed Yoga is a water down version of the actual practice. #Yoga #YogaStudio #YogaTeacher #YTT