Yoga Video - RSI and Wrist Rehabilitation

Emily Collins demonstrates some techniques to prevent yoga practice from harming the wrists and in fact to help make the wrists more open. This is particularly useful for those who suffer from RSI and carpal tunnel syndrome.

This is a great detail to accompany any exercise that involves placing your weight on your wrists, but it is particularly good for exercises such as the Yoga Video - Sun Salutation B or Surya Namaskara B and Yoga Video - Sun Salutation A

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Yoga Keeps Ryan Giggs in the Game

Despite playing for Manchester United, the club that opposition fans love to hate, you will be hard pushed to find anyone who doesn’t offer Ryan Giggs grudging respect. Unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, his current teammate, or David Beckham, with whom he learnt his trade as one of United’s young starlets in the 1990s, Giggsy, as he is universally known, does not attract vitriolic hatred from the stands. He is that rare thing in football parlance, a “good lad”. Read more

Yoga Video - Headstand Posture - Sirasana

Emily Collins demonstrates Headstand Posture, or Sirasana. This sometimes referred to as the king of asanas. It is an extremely important posture that can bring vitality and clarity to the body and the mind. Studies have shown that it can increase the hemoglobin content of the blood and can convey increased blood supply to the pituitary and pineal glands in the brain. This is a posture that is really recommended for intermediate to advanced practitioners of yoga. It is important to support the weight equally with the wrists, forearms and elbows only, not with the head. This develops strength in the arms and the shoulders, keeps the body centered, keeps weight off the head and avoids injury to the neck and spine.

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Introduction to Yogic Breathing

In this video, Prasad Rangnekar introduces the first principles of Yogic Breathing. How to breath correctly, how to breath deeply and to try to understand why breathing has become more important today then ever before. Breath has a profound effect on your body as well as your mind. In times of stress if we focus on the breath, and in doing so, stabilise our breath, then we can also stabilise our mind.

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Yoga Video - Sun Salutation B - Surya Namaskara B

Emily Collins demonstrates Sun Salutation B, or Surya Namaskara B. This is the second variation of the classic Yoga warm-up which should be practiced before any Yoga routine so that your body is fully warmed up before you practice. It is a complete workout in itself, loosening and heating up every joint and corner of the body.

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Yoga Video - Bridge Posture and Upward Bow Posture

A Yoga video by Emily Collins demonstrating a series of back bend poses, Bridge Posture - Setu Bandhasana then into Upward Bow Posture - Urdhva Dhanurasana. These are very good especially if you work at a computer and you feel tight in your chest, shoulders and wrists. Wonderful for elasticity of the spine, and opening the chest and the heart area.

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Yoga Video - Hero and Reclining Hero Posture

This is a great Yoga video by Emily Collins demonstrating Hero Posture or Virasana, great for stretching for the thighs and ankles. Emily then goes into Reclining Hero Posture, or Supta Virasana, great for opening the chest and shoulders. A particularly good exercise for all you out there who work on a computer, which can cause your chest and shoulders to get very tight indeed.

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Yoga Video - Sun Salutation A

A great way to start the day.

Teachers: Kay Hunter Saber and Wendy Wardell

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