FREE Video: Yoga postures for Lower Back Pain
This is a brief 12 minute video to help release tightness and tension from the lower back and to help increase mobility and flexibility in the hip joints and thighs.
Yoga Here + Now, Yoga video for beginners in English and Spanish
My deep trust in the importance of developing a personal practice as well as my years of experience teaching beginning students motivated me to create and release this instructional bilingual yoga video, Yoga Here + Now. This video is appropriate for true beginning students. My video guides beginners in 8 sessions of integrated yoga practice that include appropriate postures, breathing, meditation and guided relaxation. This video, one of the only yoga videos for beginners in both English and Spanish, is the result of the generosity of my family, the continuous support and help of many friends, teachers and students. Thank you very much for all your help and support! Yoga Here + Now is a complete practice designed with beginners in mind. It includes:
- 7 different sessions ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- 1 special session focused on relaxation, breathing and meditation, particularly useful to release stress.
- Basic principles spelled out in easy-to-understand language.
- Bilingual edition, in both Spanish and English.
- Guided pranayama (breathing) and meditation practice in each session.
Yoga Here + Now
I am especially grateful to Camilla for always being my inspiration, Luz Vi & Adolf for amazing production and financial support, Adri & Carlos (aguamboire.com) for recording sound, composing and performing the best soundtrack I could have wished for, Natalia for delicate and elegant graphic desing, Daniel Medina for excellent direction and editing, and Nicolás Ospina for working the magic of throat singing so impeccably. Thank you everybody who made this dream come true. I really hope that the video will be useful to people who want to start practicing Yoga at home.
Yoga Here + Now Trailer : yoga video for Beginners (from Yoga Here + Now)
Basic Principles for Yoga Practice (from Yoga Here + Now)
Ujjayi Breath (from Yoga Here + Now)
Basic Standing Posture to Start Practicing Yoga at Home
Easy Chair Yoga Postures to Release Tension
Correct Sitting Posture to Prevent Back Pain
Simple Yoga Meditation for Beginners
FREE Video: Yoga movements for Shoulder Pain
This is a 10-minute Simple yoga sequence to release tension in shoulders and neck. The focal point is to reverse a tendency to roll the shoulders forward in combination with increasing the range of movement of the shoulders in order to help the neck relax.
FREE Video: Yoga postures to Improve Shoulder Flexibility
This is a 10-minute clear and simple sequence of exercises to help us explore range of movement in the shoulder, to relax shoulder, neck and upper back and to restore the natural flexibility of the shoulders.
Free Video: Easy Posture to Relax your Back and Shoulders
A simple and effective posture to let go of back and shoulder tension.
Free Video: Yoga Posture to Help Restore Balance in Hips, Legs and Lower Back
This simple posture can help us notice imbalances in Hips, Legs and Back and, at the same time, can help us correct such imbalances.
Free Video: Sequence of Yoga Postures to Prevent Pelvic Imbalance and Reduce Lower Back Pain
This sequence of simple yoga postures in 17 minutes helps you discover and correct imbalances in your pelvis to prevent lower back pain.
Complete Yogic Breathing for calmness, health and concentration
This simple exercise can help you clarify your relationship with you breath and improve your breathing capacity while also relaxing and focusing your mind.
Easy meditation for beginners to relax, reduce stress and calm the mind
This exercise offers easy suggestions to start meditation with a video of a sunset by the ocean. Quite effective to calm, relax and to assist in concentration.
Simple and easy movements for healthy joints
This video offers a very easy and simple sequence of movements to help us keep our joints healthy by maintaining the natural range of movement in our joints.
Suggestions for Meditation
A few simple suggestions to enjoy meditation and its benefits.
Moving Meditation: Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Basics
This is a simple, effective and enjoyable technique to improve concentration, coordination and mental processing capacity.
Moving Meditation: Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Combining Horizontal and Vertical
Expanding our repertoire and therefore our abilities through putting two simple patterns together.
Moving Meditation: Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Modified Initial Position
When you know the basics and want to add slightly more complexity to enhance improve concentration, coordination and mental processing capacity.
Moving Meditation Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Links Horizontal – Vertical
To expand our capacity and to clarify our movements, we can connect each position in one pattern to each one of the positions in the other pattern.
Moving Meditation Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Transquarrtes – skipping one position
Change in the order of arm movements so that instead of going from 1 to 2, you skip 2 and go directly to 3.
Moving Meditation Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Arms and Legs
Increase the level of complexity by adding movement of the leg while you move your arms.
Moving Meditation Dance of Shiva (Shiva Nata) Arms and Legs with Movement in 3D space
When combining arm and leg movements because effortless and fluid, consider adding movement in 3D space to keep your focus and coordination expanding.
Introduction to Meditation in 5 minutes
A very simple approach to meditation.
11 Steps to Learn to Meditate
11 simple steps to help us establish a meditation practice. (Details on the 11 Steps to Learn Meditation)
Chair Yoga
Complete yoga asana practice in a chair to expand perspective and clarify interrelationships between body parts and joint actions.
Yoga for Improving Joint Flexibility
This 30 minute practice is focused on enhancing joint flexibility through awareness and regulation of movement. This practice of yoga asanas also helps us explore connections between different joints.
10 minute meditation for calmness and peace of mind
Enjoy this 10 minute meditation observing the flow of a gentle breeze on a water lily pond.
Relaxing practice for overall flexibility (1 hour)
Complete yoga practice including exploration of full range of movement in various joints in the limbs and in spinal column. This sequence is also directed to notice relationships between different body structures, arms, legs, shoulder girdle, hip girdle, legs and spine. Includes guided breathing and brief meditation.
Simple being – Backyard meditation (5 minutes)
Sit back, relax and take a break for your busy life to recharge and energize.
