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Fierce Grace Classic: The Hot Yoga Sequence, Pose by Pose

Fierce Grace Classic is the entry-level class in Fierce Grace, the hot yoga system Michèle Pernetta built in London after she brought Bikram Yoga to the UK in 1994. It keeps the backbone of the Bikram series (standing poses, balances, spine strengtheners, a seated finish) and adds core work,...

Posted on 31 May 2019

Yoga Sequences

Fascia and Yoga: What Yin Yoga and Foam Rolling Do to Fascia

Fascia is the web of connective tissue that wraps and links your muscles, bones and organs. Yoga, and Yin Yoga in particular, can make that tissue feel less stiff: long, passive holds and slow rolling on a ball or foam roller increase your range of motion for a while after you practise. What the...

Posted on 30 May 2019

Essential Yoga Body Parts

Om (Aum) Mantra: Meaning, How to Chant It and a 10-Minute Class

Om (Sanskrit: ॐ, also written Aum) is the best-known mantra in yoga: a single syllable, chanted aloud or repeated silently, used to focus the mind before and during meditation. In the Upanishads it stands for Brahman, the whole of reality, and in the Yoga Sutras Patanjali calls it pranava, the...

Posted on 27 May 2019

Yoga Lingo

Quadriceps and Yoga: Quad Anatomy, Stretches and Strength

The quadriceps femoris, the quads, is the large muscle group on the front of the thigh. It has four heads: rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius. All four straighten the knee, and the rectus femoris also flexes the hip. In yoga you stretch the quads by bending...

Posted on 20 May 2019

Essential Yoga Body Parts

Latissimus Dorsi (Lats) and Yoga: Anatomy, Stretches and Pain

The latissimus dorsi, or lats, is the widest muscle of the back. It runs from the lower half of the spine, the back of the pelvis and the lowest ribs to the front of the upper arm bone, and it pulls the arm down, back and in toward the body. In yoga you stretch it every time the arms go...

Posted on 17 May 2019

Essential Yoga Body Parts