How To Do Vinyasa Yoga Video

Vinyasa yoga focuses on breathing during exercise routines. It smoothly combines yoga positions. Learn about Vinyasa yoga in this video lesson.

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Change poses on inhale & exhale
Flow with rhythm of breath
Center the body
Focus internally

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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. Vinyasa Flow Yoga is a wonderful style of yoga. It flows with the rhythm of the breath. So there's a new pose for each inhale and a new pose for each exhale. Sometimes, you hold the breath and just stay in the pose as you build on the flow, but it really feels like a dance, because you're just flowing with the rhythm of your breath. It's really beautiful, using the breath to build for each pose and to carry on. So, let's let Faith show us a little demonstration of what flow yoga is about. She's coming into warrior two. She's going to inhale and reach her arm up as she stretches back into reverse warrior and then as she exhale, she's going to come forward into a side angle stretch. So, using her breath at the full extent of the inhale, she reaches her arm up and at the full extent of the exhale is when she finally moves to the pose. So you're not moving to the pose and holding it. You're waiting for your entire breath to get there, so that you can keep flowing through the movement, feeling the rhythm of the breath and using that energy that's generated to carry you on through the next pose. So, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a wonderful type of practice, you use your breath. You must center your body and focus, bringing the focus internal. It put's you in a much more meditative state and flowing from one pose to the next, allows you to draw energy to be able to come into the next pose.

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