The Restorative Yoga Practice

Series Summary

The word "yoga" comes from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning "to bind, or join." Yoga is centrally the practice of union, whether you are joining the mind to the body, the human to the divine, or the individual to the infinite. The various styles of yoga that have made it to the West all share a common core: positioning the body into a particular posture while focusing mind and breath leads to physical and spiritual well-being. These arts of positioning the body have been passed on for thousands of years, and encompass one of the oldest cultural traditions known to exist. To practice yoga, then, is also to join with the ancient sages, drawing human history up into yourself and connecting with the past.

In this free video series, Cindy Mastry will teach you many positions of Restorative Yoga. This yoga is designed for people who are going through physical therapy, out of shape, or who cannot benefit from more intense forms of yoga for whatever reason. Cindy will show you how to use props to turn many traditional poses into positions more easily held by beginners or the elderly. She teaches the goddess pose, child's pose, hero pose, head rotations, side twists, and more. Remember your breath and check out these videos today!

Video Transcript

"We live in such a fast-paced, fast-moving world, fast-food, fast cars, fast everything, running from here, running there, that we never take time to renew and restore our battery and it gets run down very, very low and we, there's hardly you can do in life when you don't encounter stress. This is why you need yoga and restorative yoga in particular to help you just unwind and relax and renew that battery pack inside your body so that you can move on. We all know, I don't think anybody disputes that stress cause?s disease. And so restorative yoga is going to help you circulate the energy throughout your body, get your spine moving in all directions so you are have a better immune system and can fight off diseases. It's not only just mental stress, or physical stress, but it's also mental stress. So when you're stress mentally, it kind you're body hurts, then that makes you mentally stress more and your body hurts more so you're in this vicious cycle and we have to get out of it and restorative yoga is the best way just to relax and renew and make yourself feel wonderful and at peace with the world again."