Vinyasa Yoga For Better Health

Vinyasa yoga is a flowing style of yoga, and is characterized more by variation than consistency. Anna Oklinuora, a certified Yoga teacher conducts classes in Hatha Yoga, with flowing Vinyasa style at Mother Tree in Indiranagar.

Vinyasa yoga is a flowing style of yoga. Photograph: Google
Vinyasa Yoga is characterized by a focus on vinyasa, or a dynamic connecting posture, that creates a flow between the more static traditional yoga postures. Vinyasa translates as linking and the system also implies the linking of the movement to the breath. Essentially the breath dictates the movement and the length of time held in the postures. Unlike some Hatha yoga styles, attention is also placed on the journey between the postures not just the postures themselves.

In other words, the teacher will instruct you to move from one pose to the next on an inhale or an exhale. This technique is sometimes also called Vinyasa Flow, or just Flow because of the smooth way that the poses run together and become like a dance. A Cat-Cow Stretch is an example of a very simple Vinyasa, because the spine is arched on an inhale and rounded on an exhale. (MORE)

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