Yoga with Terry

09/20/2025

02/17/2025

**Ardha Uttanasana**, also known as the Half Forward Bend, is a yoga pose that provides numerous benefits. Here's an overview:

👉 How to Perform Ardha Uttanasana

1. **Starting Position**: Begin in Tadasana (Mountain Pose) with your feet hip-width apart and your arms at your sides.
2. **Inhale and Extend**: On an inhale, lift your arms overhead.
3. **Exhale and Bend Forward**: On an exhale, hinge at your hips and fold forward, bringing your hands to your shins or a block placed in front of you.
4. **Lengthen the Spine**: Press your hands against your shins or the block, and extend your spine forward, creating a flat back. Your torso should be parallel to the floor.
5. **Gaze Forward**: Keep your neck in line with your spine and gaze slightly forward.
6. **Hold and Breathe**: Stay in the pose for a few breaths, focusing on lengthening your spine and engaging your core.
7. **Release**: To come out of the pose, exhale and fold forward into Uttanasana (Full Forward Bend), then inhale and slowly rise back up to Tadasana.

👉 Benefits of Ardha Uttanasana

1. **Spinal Health**: Stretches and lengthens the spine, relieving tension and improving posture.
2. **Hamstring Flexibility**: Provides a gentle stretch to the hamstrings, enhancing flexibility.
3. **Core Engagement**: Strengthens the core muscles, supporting overall stability.
4. **Shoulder and Chest Opener**: Opens the shoulders and chest, promoting better breathing.
5. **Balance and Coordination**: Improves balance and coordination by engaging multiple muscle groups.
6. **Energizing**: The pose can be invigorating, helping to boost energy and reduce fatigue.

👉 Precautions

- **Lower Back Issues**: If you have lower back problems, be cautious and consider keeping your knees slightly bent.
- **Neck Alignment**: Ensure your neck remains in line with your spine to avoid strain.
- **Proper Alignment**: Focus on maintaining a flat back and avoiding rounding the spine.

02/16/2025

A simple yet powerful pose—putting your legs up against a wall—has incredible health benefits. This restorative yoga position, known as Viparita Karani, promotes relaxation, improves circulation, and relieves tension in the legs and lower back.

Spending just a few minutes a day in this pose can help manage stress, ease headaches, and enhance sleep quality. It’s a gentle reminder that small, mindful movements can have a profound impact on our well-being.

Have you tried this pose before? Give it a try tonight and let us know how you feel! 🌙💤

12/19/2022

To lose weight, increasing your metabolism is important. Metabolism is the chemical processes that create energy. They are regulated by the endocrine system. Yoga stimulates and strengthens the endocrine organs which will boost metabolism to burn more and more calories.

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03/07/2022

Mudra for Boosting Immunity!
Garuda Mudra or Eagle gesture is highly beneficial to encourage lymphatic drainage, strengthen respiratory system and boost immunity. 🦅
Practice it 3 times a day, holding the mudra for 2-3 minutes each time.
Simply observe your breath. Try not to make it slow or fast, equal or unequal ration. Simply let it be. Every Mudra leaves a unique signature of prana on the breath. Simply observe.
Join the 3 class series (online) on Sleep, Emotions and Immunity starting in April.

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06/01/2021

Contrary to popular Western practice, yoga is not just physical postures. In one of the foundational yoga texts, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, eight limbs of yoga are described. The yama are the first of the eight limbs.

Learn more about the history of yoga, in the link below.

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04/17/2021

OM etymologically is composed of three sounds, 'a', 'u', and 'm'.

'a' blooms in the lower abdomen and represents jagrat, the waking world, the waker, and the waking experience.

'u'. vibrated in the solar plexus and heart and represents swapna, the dream world, the dreamer and the dream experience.

'm' occurs when we press our lips together, sending the vibration into our skull, and stands for susupti, the sleep world, the sleeper and the sleep experience.

As one chants OM repeatedly, the silence between the chants (called amatra - the fourth turiya state) stands for the awareness, the consciousness which is the basis of the three worlds, three experiencers, and three states of experience.



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