Chest-Opening Yoga Poses

These postures will move your heart space in every direction.

Bitilasana is an easy, gentle way to warm up the spine before a more vigorous practice.

Having a tricky time with Bow Pose? Take what you know from Bridge and Camel and change your relationship to gravity. Here's how.

Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, a well-known backbend, will challenge you to lift and open your chest.

Connect deeply with what matters—and find the strength to take action with care and compassion.

It's time to find your center. This practice for the full moon brings you back to your truest source of strength and stability—you.

Bump up your energy (and confidence!) by bending back into Camel Pose. Ustrasana counteracts slouching and relieves lower back pain with a generous, heart-opening stretch.

Bend back into the shape of a bow to feel energetically locked, loaded, and ready to take aim.

Want all the benefits of a big, heart-opening backbend without the big backbend part? These poses bring the same perks with less strain on your shoulders and low back.

This series of yoga postures will keep your pectoral and upper back muscles loose, while gradually opening the chest and shoulders.

Natarajasana is a posture you can choose to "perform" or do with curiosity. And the best way to better observe your movements in this pose is by adding props.

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This guided meditation is designed to help you feel that something has your back, so you can open your heart.

Do this short sequence 3–5 times on its own or as part of a longer practice to open your heart chakra and experience compassion.

Practice these backbends and inversions for increased flexibility and strength and feel the freedom of greater range of motion in your chest and shoulders.

This minor muscle is a major player in backbends. Expand it—and its web of connective tissue—for greater range of motion in your chest and back.

Grab a partner and celebrate American Heart Month with this chest-opening sequence from Two Fit Moms.

Upward-Facing Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana) is a pose that is commonly performed incorrectly. Here's the right way to do it.

Lord of the Dance Pose (Natarajasana) requires foundation, stability, concentration, flexibility, and balanced action -- everything you need as you set out to achieve your goals for the New Year.