Sequences of Yoga Poses to be Done in a Flowing Vinyasa Style

Use this sequence in your home practice when you want to work on stretching your hips and hamstrings. Doing these poses at home gives you the chance to take your time going deeper into each pose.

Weight bearing yoga poses to tone the arms.

Yoga teachers often use the phrases "go through your vinyasa" or "take the vinyasa of your choice." What are they talking about?

Many short sequences offer the building blocks of a great yoga session.

The Sun Salutation sequence is at the center of vinyasa-style yoga practices. Learn this sequence and you'll be able to practice it at home any time.

Most yoga classes will start off slowly, giving you the chance to warm up along the way, but it's not a bad idea to know a few poses you can do on your own to warm up while you wait for class to start or before a home practice.

Basic stretches like forward bends and lunges work the whole body without getting too complicated.

Students often want to know if yoga can make them taller. While yoga is not going to make you grow, it can noticeably improve your posture, making you look taller, thinner, and more confident.

Based on my own daily yoga routine, these poses will stretch your spine, hamstrings and hips.

The Yoga for Abs Sequence will help you get flatter abs and improve core strength.

Workplace stretches you can do at your desk.

This sequence puts together five warrior variations for a series that improves leg and core strength, and includes balancing, forward bending, and back bending.

A sequence of chair yoga poses.

This variation on the classic yoga Sun Salutation - Surya Namaskara is sometimes called a Moon Salutation - Chandra Namaskara.

A step-by-step guide to a sequence of standing yoga poses. Includes a photo and links to detailed instructions for each standing poses. Use this guide to enhance your home practice.

Standing balances are tough to master, because they require strength and flexibility in addition to the ability to balance on one leg. This sequence offers a real challenge as you move from pose to pose while keeping the lifted leg off the floor the entire time.

How to put together a series of inversions you can practice at home.

This is a series of seated yoga poses that stretches and opens the hips.

A series of yoga poses designed to support back health and relieve back pain.

This Prenatal Sun Salutation - Surya Namaskara is a variation on the traditional yoga Sun Salutation sequence that is suitable for pregnant women.

Variations on Extended Side Angle Pose - Utthita Parsvakonasana for advanced students, including a photo of each variation.

Variations on Pyramid Pose - Parsvottonasana for advanced yoga students. Pyramid Pose - Parsvottonasana is a standing forward bend.

Sun Salutations - Surya Namaskara are the core of a Vinyasa style yoga practice. A sun salutation is a series of poses done in succession so that one pose flows into the next. The pace of the flow and how long the poses are held may vary, but the movement is done in accompaniment with the breath. With variations for beginning and advanced practitioners and links to yoga pictures.

It's important for runners to stretch in order to improve flexibility, which helps prevent injuries. The following sequence of yoga stretches targets the major muscle groups used when running. These stretches should be done when the muscles are already warm.

Cyclists often experience tightness in the major muscle groups used in riding a bike: the calves, quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, hips, shoulders, and neck are particularly in need of regular stretching. This short series of yoga poses is designed for the recreational cyclist and should be done when the muscles are already warm. It's useful to have a few props handy, though you can substitute ho…

Cat-cow is a basic vinyasa sequence, involving only two steps. Learn how to move your spine with your breath,