How to Do the Pyramid Yoga Pose

Series Summary

In these videos, you will get a basic introduction to yoga. Our yoga expert will show you some poses that you can do with no previous experience. These poses are a great way to relax and improve your flexibility level. You will see demonstrations of poses such as the cobra pose, the corpse pose, the mountain pose, the tree pose, the triangle pose, and many others. When combined, these beginner poses make for an excellent yoga workout.

Yoga is great for building flexibility. Did you know however, that it is also good for other parts of the body that you may not realize? The twisting pose, one of the poses in this set of videos, is very healthy for both your spine and your internal organs. The twisting motion actually massages your internal organs and is very helpful for digestion. In these videos you will learn the different poses, as well as how they benefit your body.

Video Transcript

"CINDY MASTRY: In this clip, Faith is going to help me demonstrate how using the blocks can help you come into Parsvottanasana or pyramid pose in better alignment. So we're going to ask Faith to just turn sideways. Good. She's going to root down through her heels and stand in mountain pose. She's going to inhale and reach her arms up to the sky. Good. She's going to take her left leg back just a little bit. Good. She's going to inhale lengthen and then she's going to exhale, hinge from the hips and come forward, extending her arms out forward. Good. Now, what we're going to do is place the blocks right under Faith's hands so she can bring the hands down so that she has the floor elevated up to her hands and she can keep a lengthened spine. She's going to reach long from her tailbone all the way through the crown of the head. Then she's going to bend her elbows just a little and try to bring her chest down closer towards her knee. The aim of this pose is to get her chest on her knee. And as she gets more and more flexible, she can turn the blocks and come down further and further. Good. Finally releasing. So for someone who's not quite as flexible as Faith, they might have a rounded spine which blocks the energy flow. So we want the energy to be able to flow from the pelvis to the crown of the head. So using the blocks elevates the ground so that she can come into this pose with much better alignment allowing the energy to move more freely."