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Pose of the Week Guide: Warrior III Pose
Warrior II Pose or virabhadrasana II, is a foundational yoga pose that you’ll see a lot in a yoga flow class. This pose is great for strengthening the body, but also the mind, as it helps you to tap into your inner warrior. Benefits: Strengthens the legs, stretches...
Pose of the Week Guide: Goddess Pose
Channel your inner goddess with utkata konasana. This pose is great for harnessing strength and power and is a heck of a workout in one pose! Benefits: Strengthens legs and core, as well as the back and arms. Stretches the hips and groin. How to: Begin in mountain...
Pose of the Week Guide: Dancer’s Pose
One of the most instaworthy yoga poses is Dancer’s Pose or natarajasana, and for good reason. It’s beautiful and elegant and makes for some amazing photos. Try this pose for yourself and then snap a photo and tag us @oxygenyogaandfitness so we can see! Benefits:...
Pose of the Week Guide: Tree Pose
One of the most familiar poses associated with yoga is tree pose. Easily modified for every flexibility level, tree pose or vrksasana, is a beautiful and grounding asana. Benefits: Strengthens the legs, helps with balance and grounding. Stretches the thighs, groin,...
Back Flexibility Part 4
This is the last of our 4-part series on back flexibility and back strength. Bent-over Reverse Fly: Stand with your feet about hip distance apart, hinging forward at the hips with a slight bend in your knees. Bring your arms to your sides with your palms facing...
Pose of the Week Guide: Eight Angle Pose
Tap into your inner balance, strength, and flexibility with eight-angle pose astavakrasana. While this pose looks like an impossible balancing pretzel, it is a lot less involved than it appears at first. There are multiple ways to get into those pose and we’re going...
You can do it, put your back into it part 3: back strength
Just because your back is flexible, doesn’t always mean it’s a strong back. So many of us focusing on strengthening our core, but we neglect to work on that back! Read on for how to fix the situation! Plank: Oh the pose we love to hate! There are lot of options for...
Pose of the Week Guide: Headstand with Butterfly Pose
We’ve already done one variation of headstand in our pose of the week, but this time we’re adding a little extra flourish with butterfly legs bada konasana. For this week’s guide, we’re going to go through the bound or supported variation of headstand salamba...
You can Do it, put your back into it! Part 2 on back flexibility
We’re back again for part 2 of our series in back strength and flexibility! If you missed the first part of the series, you can find it here. Back flexibility is key to getting through many yoga poses and fitness moves but also an integral part of our day-to-day...