Yoga Journals Yoga Step-by-Step The Total Guide to Beginning Your Home Practice

Session 2: Bending & Twisting Poses for Flexibility with Natasha Rizopoulos

From the editors of Yoga Journal, Yoga Step-by-Step gives you all the tools you need to build a complete home practice. The session begins with 35 minutes of step-by-step instruction from acclaimed yoga teacher Natasha Rizopoulos. She then leads you through a vigorous 20-minute vinyasa flow sequence that incorporates what you've learned into a workout that builds both strength and stamina. If you are less flexible, modified poses help you build the kind of home practice that's best for you. Practice daily and bring the serenity you experience on the mat into your everyday life.

Featuring a 35-minute active instructional session, a 20-minute flowing workout. Poses are suitable for beginners and advanced beginners

Exclusively on DVD: Follow along with Natasha or her assistant Jason, who demonstrates modified poses for less flexible people, understand the benefits of each yoga pose with medical commentary by Yoga Journal's medical editor, Timothy McCall, M.D, and learn alignment principles and correct common mistakes with Yoga Chalk Talk, our exclusive "live drawing board."

Session 2: Bending & Twisting Poses for FlexibilityEnhance your flexibility, lift your spirit, and brighten your mood with this series of bends and twists. Backbends bring energy to the body, while forward bends and twists calm the nervous system. As the poses help you become more flexible on your mat, so too will they help you become more flexible in facing your daily life. Second in the Yoga Step-by-Step series, Session 2 is a complete home class that grows with your yoga practice.