Beginner's Guide to Vinyasa Yoga

Vinyasa yoga focuses on flowing from one yoga pose to another with proper breathing. Learn Vinyasa yoga in this video yoga lesson.

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Flow from one pose to another
Purify the body
Uses standing & twisting poses
Keep rhythm

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, we're going to have a beginner's guide to Vinyasa yoga. Vinyasa yoga is flow yoga. It means you flow from one pose to the next connecting your breath, so it becomes a rhythm, it's almost like a dance, flowing from one movement to the next with each inhale and each exhalation. It happens to be my favorite style of yoga because it is so much like a dance. As with all yoga, you're looking to purify the body and release the body of toxins. It's going to give you strength, stamina, flexibility, toning, and you do this by using a series of poses. Normally you do sun salutations, which is a group of exercises designed to stretch every part of your body. You do standing poses, twisting poses, bending poses and you do them all with a rhythmic flow of the breath, so it becomes a beautiful practice. As with all yoga, you are working to connect with the divine so you build up an inner heat and an underlying vibration that allows you to tap in to your superconscious, your divine source of consciousness. So flow yoga, it means flowing from one posture to the next, moving rhythmically with your breath, and it's really beautiful posture that I think you'll really enjoy. Namaste.

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