Navigate yourself to the right skill level calendar, then follow along each day with your prescribed workout. Each day's workout for each level is located in the drop-down menu on the series page here! WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE 2020: This one is designed to help all abilities and all body shapes focus on weight loss through healthy activity and healthy lifestyle tips. Crafted with precise diligence, this collection is part of the "Best of Gaiam TV" series, and there will always be three distinct fitness levels to consider in each workout or practice. This design has two-workouts per-day as the default, a morning and afternoon session tailored to your level. The goal is to workout for at least 25 days per month, 22 at least. See if you can get two-a-day in, but always consult your physician to see if these exercises are correct for your body. Download one of the PDF calendars and choose your own adventure, marking off each workout that you complete on the calendar!
Healthy Tip #101: Having a fitness parter committed to the same journey and program format as you can increase your success rates, happiness, confidence, and overall well-being. Is there a friend or partner that might take the challenge with you? Simply texting back and forth that you've completed your workouts or practices for each day can amplify the accountability you seek to complete this challenge and see the results you are energized towards by even being on this digital page in the first place. Self-motivation and social-motivation can team up on this experience, use your talents, make your goals!
Explore how to safely and effectively practice three of the most common yoga postures: downward dog, cobra and standing forward fold. Learn how to perform these poses with healthy alignment so you can avoid injury and increase strength and flexibility.
Billions of people have practiced yoga for over 5,000 years. Ashleigh presents a practice that looks into why such simple body movements, when choreographed with a conscious mind, can be so profound for our health and wellness.
Ashleigh starts off Season 2 with a morning routine that features some of her favorite moves, coordinated in a sequence that brings balance and energy into your body as you bring your awareness to the day ahead.
Looking to wind down from a busy day and get ready for a restful sleep? In this simple 25-minute sequence, Ashleigh incorporates some ordinary home items into the practice, including a chair to put your feet up on at the end!
This one is all about twists and generating equilibrium in the mind and body. Twist to calm down, or twist to perk up, but explore the energy balance you can achieve in simply twisting with intention.
A great sage once said that enlightenment feels like space in the joints. With over 300 joints in your body, learning how to fluid, spacious, and rhythmic in each will allow you to live life with ease, adapting and receiving moments as they come.
Ease your mind and prepare for sleep with this relaxing, prop-supported practice guided with Rodney Yee. Have two blocks, a bolster, a blanket, and a chair nearby for this practice.
Everyone can benefit from a restorative practice. This short 12-minute class uses 3 supported postures with thoughtfully positioned props to encourage your body to relax by releasing muscles associated with the fight vs. flight response. Breathe easy.
In this Body Positive Pose Guide, Rodney takes a student through a variety of standing and seated postures, as well as inversions and balancing poses, focusing on alignment and how to find more space and ease in the body so that yoga feels good.
Because Savasana is one of the greatest poses in your practice, learning how to lie down properly is key. When done with technique and awareness, you provide your body with a position that is relaxed and receptive. Play with variations as you settle in.
Take time to transition from your day to night and then to sleep by unwinding with supported yoga poses designed to slowly relieve tension and tightness. This class is a great way to prepare your consciousness to enter a deep state of quietness and rest.
Transition from your busy day to a series of slow, mindful movements allowing you to calm the mind and release stress. Take it down, one pose at a time.
How can yoga help you with your relationship to food? Mindfulness is the key, training for awareness through gratitude. Rodney helps you center in poses that connect your mind & body as practice for those moments before, during, & after a nourishing meal.
Use this 10-minute guided meditation to help ease your body into a state of rest and sleep. As you feel the weight of your body drop into the earth, you begin to erase the residue of agitation and the tension that prevents us from getting the rest we need.
Follow this 10-minute meditation for pain relief to bring awareness to your body and the location of your pain. By paying attention to the sensations and allowing yourself to be curious, you can begin to decrease your pain and start to enjoy a full life.
What if conflict is an illusion that stems from something that is whole being divided into two parts? Use this powerful 10-minute meditation to learn to receive the world as it is, learning to better understand who you are and where your boundaries lie.
A yoga meditation to foster good dreams & restful, nourishing sleep. Rodney provides a foundation that allows you to access feelings without limitation, energy centers without draining them, all while you conduct your awareness into a deep slumber.
A short, yet extremely effective practice to help you find a sense of steadiness in the midst of fluctuating emotions.
A meditation practice that immediately takes you back to the remembrance that you are not alone and that you are always supported and connected to those you love.
Learn to find an inner state of calm that can transform your stress into power.
