Myriad Yoga, 1060 N. Capitol Avenue Suite 4-108, Indianapolis, IN (2025)

09/10/2025

Active Pose of the Week: Parvritta Trikonasana (revolved pyramid)

Revolved Triangle (or pyramid) finds the back and the front of our heart space broad and open. We symbolically reach out in a giving and receiving of love. The open arms bridge ourselves between earth and universe, our grounding and our spiritual connection, as Anahata is the bridge of the chakras.

Begin in a standing Mountain pose (tadasana).

Step your left foot back about 2 – 3 feet like Pyramid Pose. The left toes will turn out about 45 degrees.

With your hands at your hips, start to lengthen the spine and fold over the front leg.

Place your left hand to the floor beneath your shoulder and bring your right hand to your hip.

Begin to twist your torso to the right looking straight ahead over the right leg.
If it feels comfortable, you can reach the right arm up to the ceiling.

Hold for 3 – 5 breaths and switch sides.

Revolved Pyramid is a deep twist and a big tug on the hips. Here are a few tips to make this posture more accessible. First, don’t feel like the feet have to be on a balance beam. Take your feet wider on the mat left and right – think riding a bicycle. Once you fold, bring your grounded hand to a tall block to create more space in the torso for the twist. As you twist to the right, use your right hand at the hip to help pull the hip back and open up. Remember, there is not perfect alignment for any one posture. There is your body and the alignment that suits your unique structure. Seek the space that provides sensation with out escessive discomfort.

09/09/2025

Passive Pose of the Week: Gomukasana (Cowface Pose)

Gomukasana opens the heart space and helps us connect to Anahata Chakra.

Begin sitting on the floor with the legs straight out in front of you.

Slide the right foot in towards your body and cross the right foot over the left leg.

Roll onto your left hip, bend the left knee and slide the foot towards the right hip. If you are able stack one knee atop the other.

Reach your left arm up to the ceiling, bend the able and tap your upper back.

Bring your right arm behind you, bend the elbow and reach for the left hand. You can grab your shirt or hold a towel or strap between the hands if they do not meet.

Hold for 3 – 5 breaths before slowly coming out and switching sides.

Gomukasana is a posture that is greatly enhanced with props! By adding props in, we can sit more comfortably in the pose, remove distractions of the body, and allow ourselves to focus on the internal, or the breath. If reaching behind you and grabbing your hands isn’t acessible or comfortable, trying holding a strap or towel between the hands. Still feel too much happening? Reach one arm overhead and tap behind you towards the upper back. Take the opposite hand and place it on the lifted arm’s elbow, pulling the arm towards center (see the images above). Press your head into the arms and sit up tall.

09/08/2025

“As you open your heart to wisdom, you will begin to see the unseen essential.” – Bryant McGill

Weekly Focus: Anahata Chakra (heart chakra)

In Sanskrit, “Anahata” translates to “unstruck,” “unbeaten,” or “unhurt. Anahata is our heart chakra, the fourth chakra in the yogic system. This chakra is associated with love, compassion, and emotional balance.

As the fourth Chakra in the seven Chakra system, Anahata serves as the bridge between our lower three grounded chakras and the higher three spiritual chakras. When this space is in balance, we feel a clarity and balance of our emotions and relationships, and we see ourselves capable of giving and receiving love.

Related to the Air element, there is an aspect of being able to move freely and uninhibited, just as the air moves in and around us. This relationship to air encourages us to keep our heart space open, clear, and free of energetic blocks.

When Anahata is in good alignment, you feel open to all of life’s experiences, both challenging, invigorating, and simple. Discomfort, disease flow through you, rather than feeling resistance.

How can we embrace a more loving attitude, open mind, and open heart?

09/04/2025

September’s full moon is the Harvest Moon. This lunar cycle we gather up the last of what the warm months have to offer us. Both externally—like fruit and veggies and time in the sun, and internally—like new revelations, clearer intentions, and composted patterns. Join us as we pause to practice gratitude for all we’ve been given and release anything we won’t be taking with us into Autumn.

Join Cory for a restorative practice paired with journaling prompts to reflect on our harvest.

In this 75-minute class, you’ll be guided through:

📓Journaling + Grounding (10 minutes)
🧘Restorative Yoga (65 minutes)

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09/04/2025

Active Pose of the Week: Eka Pada Utkatasana (Standing Figure Four Pose)

Utkata translates as “fierce” or “difficult.” This “fierce” and “difficult” posture requires a sense of focus and concentration to keep the body awake and active in the posture and to keep from toppling over!

Begin in a standing Mountain pose (tadasana).

Set your drishti or gaze to a non-moving point in front of you. Focus your eyes on that space.

Shift your weight into your right foot and begin come onto the toes of your left foot.

Slowly lift the left leg up so that the knee bends to about 90 degrees. Reset your focus.

Bring your left ankle to cross the right knee. As you do, sit your hips back, like you are sitting in a chair. Allow the right knee to bend.

Arms can press together lightly at heart center or reach up over head, pending your preference.

Hold for 3 – 5 breaths and switch sides.

In the spirit of focus, take your time and move slowly through your balance this week. Slow and steady is the name of the game. When you set your gaze, try looking lower to the ground, it will aid the balance. Each time you move into a new position, pause, and reset your gaze and focus. Be patient, and notice how it feels.

09/03/2025

Passive Pose of the Week: Ardha Padmasana (Half Lotus)

Half lotus is a traditional meditation pose, though it may not be comfortable for all practitioners for extended lengths of time. Luckily, there are plenty of prop modifications and alternatives we can use to find a sustainable seat for meditation.

Begin sitting on the floor with the legs wide and straight out in front of you.

Bend the right knee and pull the foot in towards the pelvis, letting it move towards the inner left thigh. The legs will be in a checkmark shape.

Bend the left knee in, and using your hands to help, guide the left foot in to the crease of your right hip. The foot and leg will be sitting on top of the right leg.

You may stay upright or fold forward over the legs. Hold for 7 – 10 breaths.
Slowly come out of this position, using the hands to help you unravel the legs slowly.

Find your second side.

A lot of factors might make this position uncomfortable to sit it. Tight hips, lack of ankle or knee mobility, or even just being used to sitting upright on the floor, can all contribute to discomfort in the pose. No matter how you feel in this pose, adding a blanket underneath of your seat is an excellent addition for all. Sit on the edge of your folded blanket to offer a tilt in your pelvis, this will help your hips open up. If you cannot bring the foot into the crease of the legs, for whatever reason, try placing it on a block in front of the lower leg, as seen in the image above. This reduces the flexion in the knee and ankle. Finally, if you do plan on using this posture for meditation, sitting against a wall is an amazing support. The wall will allow your back to be supported and help reduce fatigue. If we are uncomfortable in our bodies, we can be quite distracted while we meditate. So be kind to yourself and utilize your props.

09/02/2025

“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.” – Amit Ray

Weekly Focus: Dharana (focused concentration) + Dhyana (meditation)
Dharana and Dhyana are the sixth and seventh limbs in the 8-Limb Path of the Yoga Sutras. Together, these practices build us into the act of meditation, helping to bring clarity of mind and thoughts.

Dharana in Sanskrit means concentration or single focus. “Dha” means “holding, carrying, or maintaining”, and “ana” means “other, or something else.” It is the sixth limb in the eight-limbed path as described in the Yoga Sutras. It is the initial step in attaining a state of meditation. Dharana is sustained focus on an object, typically the breath, though this can also be the repetition of a mantra, gazing or visualizing or contemplation of a deep truth. This focus helps to quiet the mind and bring clarity to our thoughts.

Dhyana is a Sanskrit word meaning “meditation.” It is derived from the root words, dhi, meaning “receptacle” or “the mind”; and yana, meaning “moving” or “going.” An alternate root word, dhyai, means “to think of.” It is the seventh limb of the Yoga Sutras. This practice brings a sense of becoming one with the object of focus, so that you are only aware of your Self and the object. The mind is not empty, but wholly focused on the “object” at play, be it the breath, the mantra, the visualization, or the deep truth.

Meditation is a helpful tool that can be useful in managing stress, anxiety, challenging situations, exhaustion, and so much more. This week is a reminder that the tools of Yoga can be brought into our daily life so that living each day becomes more easeful. Meditation is valid whether it is 1 minute or 20, so when and how will you fit in a meditation this week?

08/29/2025

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08/27/2025

Active Pose of the Week: Camatkarasana (miracle / surprise pose / wild thing)

Camatkarasana boldly opens the heart and reaches a hand in extension of offering. This pose also encourages us to look outside of ourself as we lift the gaze to the ceiling.

Begin sitting on the floor with your feet straight out in front of you.

Slide you right foot closer to the body with the knee pointing to the sky. Then move the foot further to the right. Your foot will be in line with the left knee, but outside the line of your right hip. As you do this, allow the left leg to slide out to a slight diagonal.

Plant your left hand behind you with your fingers turned away from your body.

Push into your right foot, and left hand while bridging up through the hips. As you lift up, the toes of the left foot will naturally press down to the floor.

Sweep your right arm up and alongside the ear.

Hold here for 3 – 5 breaths before lowering down with control and switching sides.
There are a few ways to enter camatkarasana but we find the above variation to be the most accessible. In reality, camatkarasana is just another variation on our side plank pose, where most of our weight is being held on one arm and leg. It is the push down into the floor that helps us rise up in the hips. To access this feeling in an even simpler pose, you can take the same action from a janusirsana. Start with your legs in a checkmark shape (right leg long, left foot in towards the right thigh like a half butterfly). You will still press down through the left hand, but as you rise up through the hips, roll onto the left shin and let the right foot press down. This is a great pose practice the lift of the floor before jumping into camatkarasana.

08/26/2025

Passive Pose of the Week: Marichyasana C (Sage Twist C)

This posture, named after the Sage Marichi, is most fitting as the name translates to “ray of light.” This twisted pose allows us to look around to see where we can look outside of ourself.

Begin sitting on the floor with the legs straight out in front of you.

Slide the right foot in towards the body with the knee pointing up to the sky.

Hug the right knee towards you with the left arm. Inhale and reach up through the crown of the head, lengthening the spine.

As you exhale, twist and turn to your right. Place the right hand behind the hip.

Press into the right hand to help you sit up tall.

Take 3 – 5 breaths before unwinding on an exhale and switching to your second side.

Using your breath to help guide you into this twist can be powerful tool. With every inhale, imagine yourself reaching a little taller through the crown of the head, and with each exhale, let the ribs rotate. To add more complexity to this breath, you can try alternating your breath between the lungs. This practice is just as much a mental connection as it is physical. When twisting to the right, imagine breathing into your right lunge, and exhaling into your left, letting the breath move you through the twist. Remember, this is just as much about visualizing the action as it is about feeling it in the body. To practice, you can start facing center and place a hand on each rib, trying to inhale into one lung, and exhale into the other. Try it on both sides, reversing the inhales and exhales for the left side, and notice what you feel in the pose.

08/25/2025

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Ghandi

Weekly Focus: Seva (service)
Seva is the practice of selfless service. In seva, we offer our service to others without the expectation of reward or return.

To be radiant (our monthly theme for August) is to send out your light, and to act in service for others is to send out your light to the world, hence seva as our final focus this month. Yoga is a self-focused practice that ultimately helps us to become a more self-aware individual and to see our union with all things. In this recognition, we can see that by offering ourself in service to others, we receive even when we don’t expect to.

Yoga gives us the tools to know ourselves better, to know what our passions and desires are, to know our skills and assets. What good is it to become passionate for ourself if we don’t share that abundance with those around us? This week we challenge ourselves to take our yoga practice into the world and to share our inner abundance with our community. As much as we give, we receive. We may not need or expect it, but there is a fullness that comes with the service we offer to others. Service can be large or small gestures, it all counts. In what ways do you give of yourself to others, without expectation of return?

08/22/2025

Aerial Basics is your 4-week journey through the foundations of an Aerial Yoga practice! This series is perfect for any student curious about Aerial Yoga but not ready to jump right into a class.

Aerial Basics prepares your by teaching you everything you need to know to feel confident such as the names of poses, terminology, how to get into the silk. Not only that, this weekly class helps to build repetition and accountability with those who struggle to build routine.

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