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Types of Yoga Poses

Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga yoga, with its many vinyasas, is great for building core strength and toning the body. Prepare to sweat as you briskly move through a set sequence. Ashtanga Yoga was founded by K. Pattabhi Jois.

Bikram Yoga
Bikram Yoga

Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched. Below is the list of 26 hatha yoga postures and their benefits.

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Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga

What Is Hatha Yoga? Rather than being a style of yoga as such, Hatha describes any kind of yoga where poses are practiced, this would include Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Iyengar yoga to name a few popular styles. The word Hatha is the Sanskrit word for ‘Forceful’, and represents a system of physical techniques.

Iyengar Yoga
Iyengar Yoga

Iyengar Yoga By paying close attention to anatomical details and the alignment of each posture, Iyengar Yoga is the practice of precision. Poses are held for long periods and often modified with props.

Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga

Using sound, breath, and posture, Kundalini Yoga aims to develop spiritual awareness by freeing the serpent power (kundalini) that is coiled in the base of the spine and drawing it upward through the seven chakras.

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Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga

Rather, restorative yoga is intended to take the mindfulness that is found in all disciplines of yoga to the next level. It’s still and slow, and it’s as much (or more) about the mind as it is the body.

Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa Yoga

In vinyasa yoga classes, students coordinate movement with breath to flow from one pose to the next. Ashtanga, Baptiste Yoga, Jivamukti, Power Yoga, and Prana Flow could all be considered vinyasa yoga.

Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga

Yin yoga is the perfect compliment to our yang style of yoga practice. Yang yoga practices include popular techniques such as vinyasa flow, ashtanga, power yoga and even hatha. Yin yoga is a very passive approach to yoga where you perform the majority of the poses seated on the floor or laying down.