How to Practice Yoga Inversions Safely: Essential Guide to Getting Upside Down

In this essential guide to yoga inversions, we’ll break down the meaning of yoga inversions, benefits, potential risks, and effective inversion yoga poses with important modifications for a safer practice.

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How to Practice Yoga Inversions Safely: Essential Guide to Getting Upside Down

How to Use Yoga Blocks: Poses, Benefits & Pro Tips

Should you be using a yoga block? Yoga blocks can be powerful tools when used correctly. In this blog, we break down how to use yoga blocks to enhance your practice, as well as the best yoga block poses and their key benefits.

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How to Use Yoga Blocks: Poses, Benefits & Pro Tips

What is Yoga Anatomy – A Guide to Safe Yoga Practices

Without drowning in lists of muscles with Latin names, we can benefit from an understanding of the principles of anatomy. What do you need to know to make practice safe for yourself or your students? How do bones, muscles, joints and fascia influence yoga practice? This is your guide to yoga anatomy.

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What is Yoga Anatomy – A Guide to Safe Yoga Practices

Uttanasana – Guide to Standing Forward Bend

Standing Forward Bend or Uttanasana is so common, and yet so often misunderstood. It’s not all about touching the floor. In this Uttanasana guide you can learn the benefits and risks, follow simple steps to find your best Standing Forward Bend, and elevate your practice with expert tips and variations.

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Uttanasana – Guide to Standing Forward Bend

How to Practice and Teach Boat Pose

Boat Pose can easily be modified to suit beginners, or to challenge more experienced yoga practitioners. Drawing on a combination of strength, flexibility, balance and focus, it’s a functional and beneficial addition to your regular yoga practice. Learn more in this helpful guide to Boat Pose.

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How to Practice and Teach Boat Pose

Differences Between Vajrasana and Virasana – Practicing Hero Pose and Diamond Pose

There are important differences between Virasana (Hero Pose) and Vajrasana (Diamond Pose), even though at first glance they both look like simply kneeling. Discover the differences between them, the benefits of each, and handy step-by-step guides with tips for your practice.

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Differences Between Vajrasana and Virasana – Practicing Hero Pose and Diamond Pose

Kakasana and Bakasana – A Guide to Practicing Easy Crow, Crow and Crane Poses

Follow this step-by-step guide to achieve Easy Crow Pose, and progress to Crow Pose and Crane Pose. Arm balances are challenging, and you need clear steps and helpful tips to find your balance in Kakasana or Bakasana. Learn to find calm in these poses and feel the mental and physical rewards.

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Kakasana and Bakasana – A Guide to Practicing Easy Crow, Crow and Crane Poses

Virasana Pose: How to Safely Practice Hero Pose

Virasana is a deceptively simple pose demanding a complex range of motion from the lower body. To protect your joints and muscles, it’s important to practice the pose safely. Learn the how and why of a safe Hero Pose, how Virasana differs from Vajrasana, and which Virasana adaptations might suit you.

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Virasana Pose: How to Safely Practice Hero Pose

Padmasana – Lotus Pose: Tutorial to a Pain-Free & Safe Lotus Pose 

Lotus Pose is a symbolic pose in yoga philosophy. A beautiful lotus flower can grow in the muddiest of water and likewise so can we grow in all types of environments. As on the spiritual path, achieving Padmasana takes effort and patience. It is crucial that we approach this pose with caution to come into it safely. Read on to find out how!

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Padmasana – Lotus Pose: Tutorial to a Pain-Free & Safe Lotus Pose 

How to Avoid Knee Pain & Injury in Yoga for Sensitive Knees

Knee pain is, unfortunately, relatively common in yoga. Read this blog if you have sensitive knees or fear knee injuries. Here I share 11 tips and modifications for preventing knee pain and injury in yoga.

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How to Avoid Knee Pain & Injury in Yoga for Sensitive Knees