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A Well-Rounded Challenging Beginner Flow
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This challenging, beginner yoga class is a wonderfully-balanced hatha flow that stretches and strengthens the whole body, through standing poses, seated stretches, reclining postures and core work. Rachel helps you understand alignment and core activation, emphasizing the proper way to do the poses to obtain the most benefit and to feel rejuvenated and relaxed as you take on your day or prepare to wind down into your evening.
Comments
Hi Rachel,
Hey, thanks for being such a fantastic teacher. I really love your classes... I appreciate all the technical adjustments and don't find they interfere with my concentration or the flow of the class... they really add to it. I do have a question about breath... not necessarily for this class but all yoga classes for any teacher. I started David´s core primer and learned about yoga breath and how it´s tied to core strength... very interesting. Any ways I find during yoga classes often I don't know what to do with my breath. I find my own breath goes out of sync with the instruction (not any teacher in particular) and I´d like to know how to lead it myself. Also and completely related I'm not sure when and when not to engage my core. Lifting my pelvic floor, tucking the belly and pressing the shoulder blades from what I've come to understand cause the lungs to expand more... this is what I understand. Do I engage these parts throughout the practice (minus shavasana)? Also sometimes I hear instructors saying draw the breath to the belly but I understood that with the pelvic floor lifted and belly tucked that the air would draw to the chest and ribs and lungs. I´d like to hear what you think about engaging the core and where to send the breath. In any case, love all your beginner classes, as a beginner trending to intermediate they are perfect.
Have a great day!
Nick
Can you provide this video with lower setting options for mobile devices please. Thank you!
.. in a good way. Did it ever. I feel wrung out, especially in the upper arms.
I'm an active 63 year old male. The mornings feel a little stiff and there is always a low back pain. I'm only willing to put in 20 minutes at a time for yoga so I break this video intro three segments. Afterwords my body feels so much more fluid and there's less pressure on my lower back.