Category Archives: Asana and Pranayama

LATERAL SIDE ANGLE POSE (aka BENT KNEE)

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Lateral Side Angle on SUP

"Lateral Side Angle", a great asymmetric pose for on or off the board.

When to perform:
- On your leg training day.
- Any time your emphasis is on strengthening your legs and core.
- As part of your standing warrior series.

Benefits:
- Strengthens the ankles, knees, legs and core.
- Enhances spinal rotation.
- Tones the abdominal organs.
- Stretches the sides of body all the way from the shoulders, to obliques, hips
  and legs.
- Assists in stretching the thoracic diaphragm for deeper breathing.
- It is a great transitional pose leading to several balancing poses.

Benefits specific to SUP:
- It stretches and strengthens the hips assisting with all strokes.
- It stretches and strengthens the shoulders creating a longer and more powerful
  reach.
- It creates muscle memory for the "back heel tail brace".
- It assists your balancing ability required for surfer's stance.

How to perform:
1. Start in Warrior II position with right leg forward.
2. Ground both feet and lift your spine up bending it laterally on the right
   side. Keep pushing through the outside of your back foot.
3. Place you right forearm on your right thigh, palm facing the sky.
(*) If you wish for more of a challenge, straighten your right arm bringing your
    forearm off your thigh.
4. Reach your left forearm up towards the sky, rotate the palm forward and then
   extend it forward as a continuation of the rest of the side of your body.
6. Hold for several seconds to a minute before coming out of the pose and repeat
   on opposite side.

This pose can be performed statically or in a flow.

This pose was brought to you by the Yoga Energy Studio. As always, contact a knowledgeable yoga instructor or personal trainer for contraindications and needed modifications. Please, contact the Yoga Energy Studio at (727) 466-7994 for any questions.

Precautionary note:
This is not a medical statement, but a set of remarks concerning a particular hatha yoga pose. If you are under medical supervision and/or you have any questions whether or not to proceed with the following, please consult with your health professional.

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BRIDGE POSE

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Bridge on the SUP

"Bridge", a great pose for on or off the board.

When to perform:
- On your core training day.
- Any time your emphasis is on strengthening the glutes.
- As part of a floor core flow.

Benefits:
- Strengthens the glutes, legs and ankles.
- Assists in protecting the lower back.
- (*) When performed in a flow it reestablishes proper thoracic diaphragm
      function.
- It reverses the effects of sitting on a chair.
- Stimulates the reproductive organs, the abdominal organs, the lungs and
  thyroid.
- Rejuvenates tired legs.

Benefits specific to SUP:
- Assists in strengthening the glutes in order to protect the back, knees and
  ankles.
- (*) It also strengthens the thoracic diaphragm which ensures better lung
      functioning, hence lower risk of injury.

How to perform:
1. Lie on your back with your knees bent at hip distance and your feet on the
   floor, in line with your knees.
2. Using your glutes, move your hips towards the sky.
3. Push your heels, feet and shoulders firmly into the ground.
4. Use your glutes, not your hamstrings.
5. Lower the butt to the ground.
6. Repeat.

This pose can be performed statically or in a flow.

(*) means that it must be performed in a specific way for this effect to occur.

This pose was brought to you by the Yoga Energy Studio. As always, contact a knowledgeable yoga instructor or personal trainer for contraindications and needed modifications. Please, contact the Yoga Energy Studio at (727) 466-7994 for any questions.

Precautionary note:
This is not a medical statement, but a set of remarks concerning a particular hatha yoga pose. If you are under medical supervision and/or you have any questions whether or not to proceed with the following, please consult with your health professional.

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All about Warrior II

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Warrior II
The Sanskrit name for this pose is: Virabhadrasana II. Vira means "hero", or "brave". Bhadra means "virtuous". Asana means "posture".

Getting into the pose
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STANDING HALF MOON

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Standing Half Moon

"Standing Half Moon" great pose for on or off the board.

When to perform:
- Any time you feel sluggish.
- Before an intense workout.
- On shore, before a paddle.

Benefits:
- Gives you a quick shot of energy.
- Warms up your spine.
- Strengthens all muscles in the central part of the body, especially in the
  abdomen.
- Increases the flexibility of the spine and helps correct bad posture.
- Stretches and strengthens the rectus abdominus, latissimus dorsi, obliques,
  deltoids and trapezius muscles.

Benefits specific to SUP:
Assists in creating flexibility, necessary for proper form of several paddle strokes such as draw stroke, side slip, forward stroke and back stroke.

How to perform:
1. Start in your mountain pose.
2. Inhale arms up over your head. If you can clasp hands together into the
   steeple pose.
3. Drop the shoulder blades, work towards keeping the elbows straight.
4. Inhale, lift the spine, exhale push the hips in one direction, arms pointing
   the other direction, making a half moon shape.
5. Breathe in this position several times.
6. Work towards keeping your chest straight and your back from arching.
7. After your last inhalation come back to neutral (step 2).
8. Repeat on opposite side.

This pose was brought to you by the Yoga Energy Studio. As always, contact a knowledgeable yoga instructor or personal trainer for contraindications and needed modifications. Please, contact the Yoga Energy Studio at (727) 466-7994 for any questions.

Precautionary note:
This is not a medical statement, but a set of remarks concerning a particular hatha yoga pose. If you are under medical supervision and/or you have any questions whether or not to proceed with the following, please consult with your health professional.

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Mountain Pose

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Breathe in through the nose out through the nose!

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Breath in through the nose out through the nose!

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Straight from one of the greatest athletes/yogis/surfers and stand up paddlers in the world!

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YOGA ENERGY’S FANTASTIC FOUR HOT STYLES

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People often ask us what the difference is between Yoga Energy's three styles of hot classes and which style is best for them.

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“HOT YIN AND HOT YANG” AT THE YOGA ENERGY STUDIO

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YOGA ENERGY’S HOT CHAIR

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Have A Seat! Not just any seat, a Hot Yoga Energy seat, Utkatasana (Chair Pose).

This pose (squat) is the lowest common denominator of human movement. In order for us to stand, pick things up, and even sit on the toilette we must first be able to squat. Most of us, as Westerners, have lived a very sedentary lifestyle. With school, work, TV, computer games, etc. our bodies have adopted to sitting. When this happens, our hamstrings get loose and our glutes and quads become weak. Continue reading →

YOGA ENERGY AND THE HOT PSOAS

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Let’s discuss the psoas, one of our body’s hidden treasures. It can be full of riches or deep sorrow. The psoas is a muscle that attaches to the side and toward the front of the 12th thoracic vertebra and each of the lumbar vertebrae. Moving through the pelvis without attaching to bone, the psoas inserts Continue reading →