Examining The Self

My Yoga Online is proud to introduce its' new Mind Body TV featuring shakti mhi. This thought-provoking video segment examines concepts of self-perception. What are our authentic thoughts? What are our authentic feelings? How do we see ourselves in the eyes of others and how do we draw from this in our creation of the self? shakti talks about how we develop our own concept of who we are from the moment we are born.



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About shakti mhi: After nearly 30 years of personal practice and teaching thousands of students around the globe, shakti mhi has made Yoga her passion and her life's purpose. Since the age of 14 when she first discovered Yoga, she has traveled the world in search of Yoga and Zen teachers who would expand her knowledge of all aspects of Yoga. Her dedication to the ancient ways of yoga led her to study with a variety of accomplished Zen teachers, deepening her understanding of the original intent of Yoga. Learn more about shakti.


Preview shakti mhi's selection of download products available at MyYogaOnline:

Guided Zen Meditation - click to preview
This class will prepare you for silent meditation. When you hear the sound of the gong, you will sit for ten minutes in silence.

Full Body Relaxation - click to preview
Enjoy being guided into deep mental serenity and physical release through song and visualization.

New Vinyasa Yoga Video Class

This advanced Power Yoga class explores long standing sequences and arm balancing postures. Build strength and steadiness while expanding your awareness to inner connection.



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New Yoga Video - Padma Beginner Class

We are pleased to announce two new videos available on My Yoga Online featuring Padma of Padma Yoga and Meditation:
Mountain - Classical Yoga postures and breathing to develop a gentle foundation.
Ocean - Classical Hatha Yoga flows creating fluid movement and rejuvenation.

Purpose and Focus Through Yoga

We live in an age of distractions and clutter that cloud the mind, create heaviness on the physical and burden the soul. In Yoga, these distractions and obstacles are called Chitta Viksepa. With even small adjustments in behavior, thought, and action, we can shift to a greater state of clarity and focus. This clearer sense of focus allows purposefulness to abound and abundance to flow.

Purpose and Focus Through Yoga...

Yoga Poses - Exploring Warrior 1

Virabhadrasana 1 (Warrior 1 pose) is a wonderful warming yoga posture that can be enjoyed in most hatha yoga practices when aligned mindfully. Yielding numerous benefits Warrior 1 pose strengthens the shoulders, arms, thighs, ankles and the muscles of the back; expands the chest, lungs and shoulders; stretches the hip flexors, abdomen, and ankles; develops stamina and endurance in thighs and core muscles; stimulates abdominal organs and digestion; improves balance, concentration, and core awareness.

Exploring Virabhadrasana...

My Yoga Online Introduces New Seaside Video

My Yoga Online introduces a new hatha yoga class "Seaside Yoga Flow" to its selection of outdoor yoga videos. This invigorating, flowing, hatha yoga practice will bring energy and inner stillness to your body, mind, and spirit.

Seaside Yoga Flow

Body Rolling Techniques For Yoga and Pilates Safety

Body rolling techniques like Yamuna have grown in popularity and have worked their way into Yoga and Pilates classes. Body rolling incorporates gravity based body positions and movements along with various sized balls to massage blockages out of muscles, fascia and connective tissues.
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Protecting Your Neck in Hatha Yoga

Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand Yoga Pose) and Halasana (Plow Yoga Pose) are the most common Yoga inversions that move the neck into a deep forward flexion. These inverted Yoga postures provide wonderful benefits in our Yoga classes:
* tones the legs, buttocks, back, and core muscles
* stretches the shoulders and improves flexibility of upper spine...

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Use Yoga For Neck and Shoulder Pain Relief

We have a new article "Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy for Neck and Shoulder Pain" that offers great insight into the likely cause of chronic neck and shoulder pain in most people. This Yoga anatomy article explores alignment cues for your Yoga exercises and aids in bringing awareness to your overall posture in helping alleviate these chronic conditions.

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Hatha Yoga Balancing of Flexibility and Strength

Hatha Yoga explores various methods of expanding into the muscles and joints creating freedom and healing properties. As much as we enjoy creating flexibility from our Yoga poses, we need to understand the necessity of balancing this growing flexibility with strength and endurance.

There is a growing interest in restorative and passive-style Hatha Yoga classes like Yin Yoga. These Yoga practices incorporate a beautiful method of creating layers of physical, mental and emotional release. Yin Yoga is designed to move flexibility through the muscle tissues into the connective tissues.

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Twisting Yoga Poses and Positions

Twisting Yoga poses like Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Twist pose), Parivritta Trikonasana (Revolving Triangle pose), and Parivritta Parsvakonasana (Revolving Side Angle pose) create joyous benefits. The twisting motions increase mobility in the vertebral column, massage internal organs, massage nutrients in and through the spine, aid in moving material through the digestive system, tone back and core muscles, and balance energy flow throughout the main energy channel (Sushumna) that travels along the line of the spine.

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Yoga Pose For Stretching Hamstrings

One of the benefits of many forward bending Yoga poses is expanding and stretching of the hamstring muscles. We should take time in our Yoga classes to align the sit bones and leg bones so we can target the proper line of stretch of the hamstring muscles. With this alignment, we should understand the basic anatomy and mechanics of the various hamstring muscles.

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Yoga Nidra - Yogic Sleep and Pratyahara

Yoga Nidra is a powerful practice of creating an altered state of consciousness by planting healing seeds of affirmations (or sankalpa). As a form of Pratyahara, Yoga Nidra moves one to a state where one can withdraw from the senses and the influences of the mind which do not serve us on the path of enlightenment.

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Defining Yoga Postures - Asanas

Asana can be defined as a physical Yoga posture or position that is designed to help master the body and enhance the body’s functions. Yoga poses are, in essence, Yoga exercises creating strength and endurance, improving circulation and energy flow, cleansing organs and other systems, and expanding muscles and joints.

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