SKILL BUILDING TUTORIALS

SKILL BUILDING TUTORIALS

Tutorials, how-to's and progressive instruction that will support you in building a safe practice with a focus on alignment.

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SKILL BUILDING TUTORIALS
  • Tutorial: Best Style of Yoga for Beginners (5 min) – with Rachel Scott

    Listen as Rachel briefly describes how to pick the right type of yoga for your experience and goals. Have a quick listen before picking your first class!

  • Tutorial: Handstands (11 min) - with Connor Roff

    In this quick tutorial and short sequence, learn how to properly warm up, prep, and build upon your handstand skills with Connor Roff.

  • Yogi Tips: Chair Pose (2 min) - with Mikaela Millington

    Learn some tips from Mikaela on doing a chair pose (utkatasana)
    Here are some pointers for this pose:
    - Chair pose can have your feet together or hip-width distance apart.
    - Weight is in the heels
    - Soften the shoulders away from the ears and widen them if that feels better
    - Make sure your knee...

  • Yogi Tips: Upward Facing Dog (3 min) - with Mikaela Millington

    Interested in learning more about yoga poses? Mikaela breaks down Upward Facing Dog (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana).
    - Untuck your toes and press into the tops of your feet
    - Engage your thighs and activate your legs to lift hips
    - Reach your chest forward
    - Keep your wrists under your shoulders

  • Pre-natal Tutorial: Pelvic Floor (7 min) - with Carine Young

    Join Carine for this Prenatal tutorial. In this quick how-to class, Carine will go over how to strengthen your pelvic floor.

  • Tutorial: Lotus Pose (15 min) with Katrina Chan

    Learn about Lotus Pose with Katrina.

    Lotus pose may look simple, but is a challenging pose to do safely. This is actually quite an advanced pose, that should not be attempted until you've opened up the inner things, quads, and glutes. If your hips aren't open enough to safely do this pose, it ca...

  • Tutorial: Common Mistakes in Forward Folds (3 min) - with Rachel Scott

    In this very quick yoga tutorial, we address common mistakes in forward folds so you can fix your alignment and forward fold correctly!
    Common mistakes include hunching the back, hyper-extending the knees, sitting in the knee joint, and jamming our knees back. Learn how to protect yourself throug...

  • Tutorial: Common Mistakes in Backbends (4 min) - with Rachel Scott

    Fix your backbend or learn how to do it correctly!
    Backbending in Yoga happens in most classes but doesn't already feel great if your alignment is off. Learn about these common mistakes in backbends so you can practice proper alignment. This tutorial uses Camel Pose, Upward-Facing Dog / Cobra as...

  • Tutorial: Common Mistakes Doing Lunges (2 min) - with Rachel Scott

    In this very quick yoga tutorial, we address common mistakes in lunges so you can fix your alignment and lunge correctly! And yes, it does matter. For the sake of your body (and knees!) please lunge correctly and be aware of where you put your feet.

    You'll learn how to:
    - add stability to the po...

  • Pilates Tutorial: Neutral Pelvis (8 min) - with Hana Weinwurm

    This is a quick, Pilates tutorial. This tutorial will cover the "neutral" pelvis often referred to in Pilates classes. This class also focuses on maintaining a neutral pelvis for the many side-body exercises you experience in a Pilates class, as well.

    No props required.

  • Tutorial: Locust Pose (10 min) - with Katrina Chan

    Join Katrina for this quick, 10-minute Yoga tutorial. This class covers "Locust Pose". Locust Pose is a back-bending pose you execute while laying on your tummy.

    Katrina recommends that if you have limited shoulder mobility, you use a yoga strap (or robe tie/scarf) for this class.

  • Tutorial: Saddle Pose (6 min) - with Hillary Keegan

    Join Hillary for a tutorial on how to do "Saddle Pose" and "Fixed Firm" pose (Supta Virasana).
    Saddle Pose is a Yin yoga pose targetting mostly the front of the thighs, as well as the hip flexors and abdominals. It also gives some gentle compression to the lower back. The quads and hip flexors ar...

  • Tutorial: Pre-natal Baby Hug (5 min) - with Carine Young

    Join Carine for a quick tutorial about "baby hugging" or "diaphragmatic breath" that actually hugs the baby. You will pay attention to your breath and move the breath down until you activate the muscles around your baby.

  • Tutorial: Legs up the Wall (12 min) - with Katrina Chan

    Join Katrina to learn more about inverting your legs. You can practice taking the weight and blood out of your feet, ankles and legs by putting them up the wall, or by putting a bolster (or cushion) below your low back. This can feel so nice to reverse the position of our body at the end of the day.

  • Tutorial: Camel Pose (7 min) - with Mikaela Millington

    Join Mikaela to learn about Camel Pose. Mikaela suggests having two blocks for this practice or something else stable you can put weight on and give you a lift from the floor.

    Camel Pose usually includes some prep postures before you go into the posture.

    Camel Pose is a heart-opening shape (w...

  • Tutorial: Dancers & Bow Pose (8 min) - with Hillary Keegan

    Join Hillary as she takes you through Dancers & Bow Pose. These are poses you will often find teachers include in the YHot practice.

    Very often, both Dancers and Standing Bow poses are mixed up in class. These poses are standing poses that spine twisting, back bending, and balancing poses. They...

  • Tutorial: Benefits of Mountain Pose (10 min) – with Rachel Scott

    Learn how Mountain Pose (Tadasana) can help you in every single pose that you do.

    Work towards optimal alignment by breaking the pose down so you can feel the benefits in your yoga practice.

  • Tutorial: Common Mistakes in Warrior II (5 min) – with Rachel Scott

    Learn the proper alignment for warrior II pose and avoid these common mistakes.

    Whether you're new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, this is one of those poses where it's easy to make a common alignment mistake, perhaps without even noticing.

    YYOGA at Home teacher Rachel Scott is here to sha...

  • Tutorial: Eagle Pose (5 min) – with Rachel Scott

    Learn how to do Eagle Pose properly while avoiding common mistakes.

    When we come into Eagle Pose, how we get in there matters. Rachel Scott, YYOGA at Home teacher explains more about this in the yoga tutorial. Enjoy!

  • Tutorial: Sundial Pose (7 min) — with Jayme Burke

    Pair this tutorial with Jayme's Side Body Flow Yoga class, you'll want to be warmed up before you press play.

    When you're ready, this pose guarantees side body, hamstring, hip, and shoulder opening.

  • Tutorial: Core Exercise from Tabletop (10 min) — with Alison Klektau

    Alison takes you through the steps to create a supportive tabletop position to help you move into any core work or glute series in a Pilates class.

    Commonly people mention that their wrists are bothered by this pose or they feel discomfort in their supporting leg when going into any glute activa...

  • Tutorial: Low Lunge (10 min) — with Alison Klektau

    Alison takes you through the proper alignment of a low lunge pose. She also shows another heart-opening variation that you can include in your practice.

  • Tutorial: Triangle Pose (10 min) — with Katherine Moore

    Triangle pose is strengthening, grounding, and stabilizing. Katherine will take you through a few ways you can step into this posture. You'll also be invited to step into slight but different variations to see what works for your body.

    This tutorial uses two yoga blocks and a yoga strap. If you ...

  • Tutorial: How to do Child's Pose Properly (5 min) – with Rachel Scott

    Rachel's quick tutorial shows you how to do this simple and restful pose so that it fits your body! To see what works for you make sure you have a few props handy, including a blanket, a rolled-up towel, and two yoga blocks.
    If you don't have yoga blocks you can use two thicker books instead.