Iyengar
Study one pose at a time in-depth, focusing on structural alignment, using props (including heavy textbooks and couch cushions) to make each pose accessible.
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Iyengar: Confident Inversions • Patricia Walden • 60 minutes
Master Iyengar teacher Patricia Walden offers a 60-minute practice focusing on the king and queen of all poses: sirsasana and sarvangasana. Suggested props: a strap, two blankets and a bolster.
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Unpacking Bridge Pose (Setu Bandasana) • Masaaki Okamura • 20 minutes
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Iyengar: Twisting into Spring • Tristan Binns • 42 minutes
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Iyengar: Standing Strong • Nadja Refaie • 38 minutes
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Restorative: Evening Wind Down • Tristan Binns • 30 Minutes
This shorter practice will prepare your body and mind for a quiet evening or sleep at the end of the day, and can also be useful at any time to calm a racing mind or restless body.
You will need 3-4 blankets (towels will work too) and a chair of any kind (a sofa or armchair will work too), and a... -
Iyengar: Best of Back Care with Claire Carroll
This video includes a set of streamlined poses to relax, lengthen, and mobilize the spine.
All levels class
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Iyengar: Standing Poses with a folding chair 40 min Tristan Binns
Use your folding or yoga chair to enhance common standing poses - Downward Facing Dog, Standing Forward Fold, Triangle and Side Angle, Parsvottanasana, and a very lifted Bridge pose, as well as a truly deeply relaxing Savasana. Any folding chair should work. You will want to be at a wall as well....
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Iyengar: Harmonizing pairs of opposites Claire Carroll 30 mins
In the Iyengar system we use oppositional movements to create space and freedom in the body. For example, as we extend one part of the body in one direction, we offset it with an equal and opposite movement in the other direction. This class explore that principle in a variety of poses.
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Iyengar: Simple standing Twists Nadja Refaie 30 min
In this short sequence, we use the wall and a chair to prepare the legs, upper back, and sides for twists. We prepare for and do parivrtta trikonasana, revolved triangle pose, with the chair.
Level: All Levels
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Iyengar: The Neck and Shoulders • Claire Carroll • 30 min
For many of us, tension tends to accumulate in the neck and shoulders. This can result from daily activities but also sometimes from the way we position the head and the neck in our yoga postures. In this session, we explore ways to establish freedom in those areas, while also strengthening them....
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Iyengar: Twisting Poses to Ignite Your Practice • Claire Carroll • 30 min
Twists are powerful poses to erode physical and mental blockages. Practicing with a chair can help us to establish a stable base, elongate the spine, and twist from the tight spots in our torso
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Iyengar: Simple leg stretches • Nadja Refaie • 16 min
This sequence focuses on stretching the legs, primarily the hamstrings and inner thighs. The sequence also focuses on bringing length to the spine and lift to the pelvis. It can be practiced on its own, to prepare for a longer practice, or to stretch the legs after a run or other activity.
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Iyengar: Stability and Ease while Standing on One Leg • Claire Carroll • 30 min
Learn techniques for bringing stability and ease to body and mind in Vrksasana (tree pose), Ardha Chandrasana (half-moon pose) and Virabhadrasana III (warrior III).
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Covid recovery sequence: Introduction • Tristan Binns • 8 min
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 1: Childs Pose • Tristan Binns • 11 min
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 2 Standing Inversions/Forward Bends • Tristan B
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 3: L shape poses • Tristan Binns • 15 min
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 4: Suptas • Tristan Binns • 16 mins
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 5: Inversions • Tristan Binns • 15 mins
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Covid recovery sequence: Part 6: Savasana • Tristan Binns • 9 mins
Recovering from Covid-19, even the "mild" variant, can be challenging. This sequence is built on the work of Lois Steinberg, and the Iyengar yoga Association of the UK Therapeutics Committee. They both produced resources in spring of 2020, links below. (I highly recommend especially the booklet t...
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Iyengar: Unlocking the Breath's Potential: Pranayama Primer • Claire Carroll •
A short asana sequence to prepare for breath work, followed by two breathing techniques
This segment presents a streamlined sequence of postures to relax the body, open the chest, and smooth out the breath. We then practice two basic Pranayama techniques: Ujjayi I & IISuggested Props: 2-3 block...
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Iyengar: Viparita Karani Cycle • Tristan Boyer Binns • 23 min
Viparita Karani, or Legs Up the Wall, is a wonderful pose cycle to practice at the beginning or end of a longer practice. It is also a perfect stand alone practice to help recharge and revitalize, or calm down, at any point during the day. Truly versatile! Please do the whole cycle, or shorten it...
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Introduction to Iyengar: Leg Stretches • Nadja Refaie • 20 min
This sequence is geared toward students new to Iyengar yoga. Join Nadja for a sequence to stretch the legs by learning the common actions in some standing poses and downward facing dog.
Suggested Props: 2 blocks, wall
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Iyengar: Prepare Shoulders and Groins for Back Bends • Nadja Refaie • 50 minutes
This sequence focuses on opening the armpits and lengthening the groins in preparation for back bends. Includes one chair back bend. Geared toward students with some Iyengar yoga experience.
Suggested props: blankets, belt, blocks, chair