Beginners' Yoga Sequences

What if we say the key to making it to your mat on days when you’re dragging is beating your chest like Tarzan?

Rock climbing and yoga reinforce the mind-body connection through similar types of movement. Become a better climber with these six poses.

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Getting back into a regular routine is no easy feat. Breathe into fall's frenzy with this energizing sequence.

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Use these barre moves from Elisabeth Halfpapp to hit core muscles your regular rotation of asanas might not.

Stretching sideways can 
activate core muscles, expand breathing, and bring 
feelings of spaciousness and levity.

Yoga teacher to Britney Spears shares a sequence to stay calm + centered, no matter how busy life gets.

Daily yoga keeps Victoria's Secret's Miranda Kerr toned and transcendent. Here, her teacher shares her 5 go-to poses.

To calm nerves and tone up all over, incorporate these five poses into your practice.

Tomorrow we celebrate the longest night of 2013, a time to put forth your best intentions for the coming year.

Sometimes a little shift can make a big difference in how things feel. Sage Rountree explores what happens when you shake up a traditional asana.

Can't sleep? Yoga practice and philosophy can help you let go and find rest.

You can always find joy inside of you, if you just take the time to tap into it, writes Erica Rodefer Winters. This week, she shares 5 poses that help her find happiness when she's feeling blue.

Keep young and aging bones healthy with these yoga poses.

So you want to practice at home but you don't know how to begin? Here are nine ways to start.

Relieve a tension headache with this yoga sequence designed for focused relaxation.

Virabhadrasana III (Warrior III) can help us both watch our habitual patterns and work to change them. Sage Rountree explains how.

Transform tight or achy neck and shoulders with this dynamic hands-free vinyasa sequence.

The surprising key to soothing sciatica and lower back pain is a muscle you may never have heard of—the piriformis.

Feel ease and increase flexibility in your hips with three propped hip-opening poses.

Yoga helps swimmers, rowers, and kayakers build needed core strength and relieve upper-body aches and pains.

Connect with the warmth of the sun as you nourish your body and spirit with this revitalizing sequence.

Free yourself from ordinary back pain by doing these five simple poses each day.

Road tripping? Leave stiff muscles behind with these poses targeted at car-bound bodies.

Stave off back and neck pain with better posture.

Learn one simple alignment technique and three common poses to ensure pain-free backbends.

Prepare yourself for life's inevitable storms by cultivating better balance and stability.

Relieve anxiety naturally with poses that unlock your breath.

Get your inner glow on with gently flowing, quieting Moon Salutations.

Create a stable base, and you'll be free to expand ecstatically into Wild Thing.

Numbness and pain in your arms or hands may stem from upper-body tension. Learn to gently release it.

Prep your body to work in your garden and celebrate your connection to the earth by taking your practice outside.

Start your day with reverence for the sun, and harness its life-giving energy with Surya Namaskar.

For a radically different approach to weight loss, start not with diet and exercise but with connecting to yourself.

Give roots to your restorative practice and to feel free to expand.

This post-flight practice helps you get grounded to enjoy your destination.

Move with music. Energize your practice by setting it to a happy beat.

Align body, mind, and spirit with nature by practicing this seasonal sequence.

For a sense of ease that can permeate your whole life, try practicing mindfulness meditation techniques on the mat.

In our speed-driven world, yoga is often fast-paced. Yin Yoga offers an opportunity to slow down and come back into balance.

Try this series for a practice that promises to increase flexibility.

That most familiar of asana sequences, Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) is as rich in symbolic and mythic overtones as it is in physical benefits.