Lie down on your back on a comfortable mat, carpet of folded blanket. Place your arms close to your body with your palms resting against the sides of your thighs. Continue reading “Y-15 Dynamic Half Fish”

From the Full Bridge use your hands to lift your body up into the air so that your whole body is bent in a backward arch from your hands to your feet. Continue reading “Y-32 Wheel”

With the feet placed a shoulder width apart, bend slightly forward with the spine and head straight and hands resting on thighs. Continue reading “Y-50 Abdominal Lifts”

It is important to begin the series of yoga exercises with a few minutes of one of the relaxation positions. (There are standing, lying on back, lying on abdomen and sitting relaxation positions). Continue reading “Y-00 Standing Relaxation Position”

The balance of the physical body is a mental-neuro-muscular function which requires simultaneous balance of the forces of the mind and the body. For this reason they are beneficial in bringing a harmony and poise to the movements of the body-mind. They also tend to correct the body posture and walking and sitting habits which are often unbalanced. Continue reading “Y-16 Balancing On One Leg”

Shifting all your weight to one leg, bend the other leg at the knee bringing the ankle and placing it on the opposite thigh.

If this is difficult, try to place the sole of the foot against the thigh.

The hands may be placed palms together in front of your heart or over your head.

Nauli is not a beginner’s exercise; actually it is a cleansing exercise for the digestive system. It is presented here, however, because it is, in a sense, a development of the abdominal lift. Continue reading “Y-51 Nauli”

Stand with the legs about the width of your shoulders, and the arms spread horizontal to the ground, palms facing down. Continue reading “Y-01 Swing”

Sitting with both legs bent at the knee in front of your and with the feet drawn in toward the pelvis, put your soles together. Remain in this position feeling where the greatest tension of your legs is and try to relax your legs part by part, i.e., ankle, calf, knee, thigh, hip, etc. Continue reading “Y-17 Sitting On The Ankles”

This pose is named after the Dancing Lord Shiva whose dance is the creation and destruction of physical form.

With one hand holding one leg behind your back, stretch the other upward, gazing at your ginger tips.

In addition to balance, this exercise gives a good stretch to the muscles of leg and back.