Welcome to day 28 of the month-long Houston Chronicle Yoga Challenge. Today's move is Standing Halfmoon Backbend. This will give you a great openness in your chest while challenging the muscles in ...

Editor’s note: Dana Santas is the creator of Radius Yoga Conditioning, a yoga style designed to help athletes move, breathe and focus better. She’s the yoga trainer for the Atlanta Braves, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yoga is all about being in the present moment: meeting yourself exactly where you’re at on the mat without judgment or ...

If you’ve mastered the basics of yoga, you might be ready to take on something a bit more challenging—like those gravity-defying holds your 6 a.m. front-row is known for. To help you get started, we ...

Yogasana is a form of posture exercise whose roots lie in the ancient Indian yoga practices. Standing poses in yoga are performed while standing upright, often focusing on balance, strength, and ...

“Inhale as you reach your arms up. Exhale as you lower your arms down.” “Inhale as you arch your back. Exhale as you fold forward.” Many yoga practitioners are used to being instructed to connect ...

The stand and bend yoga pose lengthens your spine, shoulders and chest. It focuses on your core, helping to reduce belly fat. It also gives your full body a great stretch. The energising beginner yoga ...

Balancing yoga poses: Beginners' balances are an important way to build core strength for advanced yoga poses. Backbends: Beginners generally start with gentle spine flexion and extension, eventually ...

This list of standing yoga poses is organized by difficulty, beginning with a group of easy, all-level moves you can incorporate into a warm-up and ending with a handful of challenging poses the ...