Your first Pilates class doesn’t have to be intimidating: learn what to expect as far as style of Pilates, equipment used, what to wear, and more. Ever walk past a Pilates studio and wonder if the equipment inside is some kind of medieval torture device? You’re not alone. Despite being nearly 100-years-old, the workout method…
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How to Make Practicing Yoga at Home a Habit
By practicing yoga at home, we can roll out the mat regardless of the class times, parking, and packed schedules. For most of us life is very busy, which can lead to us skipping out on yoga class more often than we’d like. Rushing to make a class can add even more stress to our…
YogaToday's Top 10 Beginner Yoga Tips
We believe that everyone can benefit from a consistent yoga practice, which is why we want to walk you through the 10 best beginner yoga tips we’ve gathered over the years. Yoga allows us to establish a deeper connection with ourselves. It offers us a moment to ourselves to slow down our busy everyday lives…
New Year, New You: How To Start Yoga for a Healthy + Happy Body
Is this your year to start yoga, commit to self-care, and feel healthy and happy in your body?! We all have specific areas of the body that tend to ache, cause pain, or grow stiff due to stress or lifestyle. You don’t necessarily need an hour each day to devote to opening up these stiff…
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Yoga Lingo
Yoga lingo can be intimidating to the beginner yogi: yoga seems like a whole new language at first. In a sense, it is. Many of the terms you’ll hear in yoga class come from Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language that is also the language of Hindu scriptures, and from which modern Indian languages are derived….
How to Do Downward Facing Dog
Downward Facing Dog or Adho Mukha Svanasana in Sanskrit just may be the most well-known yoga pose and frequently practiced yoga pose. While in the tradition of yoga, Downward Facing Dog is considered to be a resting pose, don’t let that fool you! This pose requires strength, can tire out your shoulders, and can move…
Beginner Yogi: 5 Mindful Ways to Approach Your First (or 20th) Yoga Class
My first experience as a beginner yogi was a complete disaster. I went in looking to get that blissed out feeling I had heard some of my friends rave about, and yet, I left overwhelmed and achy. During savasana when everyone seemingly relaxed on their mats effortlessly, I felt so flustered with my racing mind…