Concerned about balance? Learn the foundations of standing balance by building a tree pose from your roots to branches. Get to know some foot anatomy from "Farley" the skeleton, then build your tree pose along with me. Feel free to use a chair or countertop for an added layer of safety.

Check in with your spinal mobility in flexion and extension with three experiential movements often done in yoga class and yoga therapy. If you cannot sit on the floor, the first two movements in this tutorial can be followed from a chair, then check out my other video, "Experience Spinal Movemen...

Explore spinal movement from two different positions from a bed or elevated surface such as a massage or reiki table.

Some verbal cues can sound confusing. Breathing is 3-dimensional, which means that breathing is meant to expand your ribs in all directions, not just the chest.

This clip is from Dynamic Yoga Anatomy during a Yoga Practitioner Training class. Before we can understand different breathing techniques, we must first learn how air flows through our respiratory system from the skull to the throat.

We continue into the lower airway with a description of respiratory anatomy from the trachea, pharynx (voicebox), bronchioles, and lungs.

Follow the pathway of air through the study of form and function of sinus cavities, cilia, mucous membranes, bronchiole tubes, lungs, and respiratory musculature. This lesson concludes with an interactive breathing activity to feel the attachment points of the respiratory diaphragm.

Experience clearer sinuses with this excerpt from my Breath for Health class using tapping, self-massage, and acupressure. Watch to the end for a class discussion about how different yoga postures can help encourage mucous clearing - by changing the head's relationship to gravity.

In this video we learn the ujjayi breath, an applied breath technique to extend the inhale and exhale which can be used in yoga practice to slow down the activities of the mind as well as to coordinate actions.

Yoga nidra is a "conscious sleep" in which you can rest and restore your body and mind in just 20-30 minutes. Here's some simple props and positioning advice I recommend to enJOY yoga nidra at home.

Yoga can do a lot of things, but what can yoga teachers ethically, and scientifically, say about it? Here are some actual pointed questions I've received over the years, and the best way to respond in this lecture/discussion with yoga students. Some questions we discuss are

"Will yoga make my d...

Follow along for six easy exercises to balance and strengthen your pelvic floor using aspects of physical therapy, breathing, and principles of yoga. This is the 2nd part of a longer workshop following a lecture given to a LIVE class. Due to an audio malfunction during the original workshop, I re...

This short "Yoga Snack" will get you standing tall and feeling energized virtually anywhere with a chair, desk, or countertop. EnJOY!

This chant to prana and apana was given from yoga master TKV Desikachar to American yoga master, Leslie Kaminoff, who shared it in a seminar I attended in 2016. Join me in the chant to prana, the inhale, and apana, the exhale, in reverence for the forces that make up our vital life force and focu...

Becoming a teacher of meditation can open a whole new world to yoga teachers, coaches and therapists, and your personal practice. Here's why teaching meditation is the next best step in your yoga education.

Kristen Fewel is an experienced teacher of yoga, meditation, and healing arts for over ...