. Janushirasana: Step by Step1. Sit down with your legs wide, at a 90 degree angle to each other. Extend the right leg out straight and left leg bent, with the sole of your left foot pressed flat against the inner thigh/groin area of your right leg. 2. Inhale and lift
the outside of the foot. Hold on the top of the foot just below the toes, fingers and thumbs together.2. Inhale, and keeping your knees together and stomach on the floor, kick your legs behind you and up in the air on the exhale. Your toes should be pointing
to the floor, placing your hands (with fingers and thumbs interlaced) around the outside of the knee to hold it there.3. Exhale, keep your right hand on your knee and move your left hand to hold the top of your foot, just under the toes. Bring the heel of your
If you're short on time (or just impatient) and looking for a way to work out several parts of the body at once then Trikanasana, the Triangle pose, is your man (or woman. Yoga isn't sexist).As Olga Allon, owner of Hot Bikram Yoga, puts it: "It's a
little tricky. 1. Sit down on the floor. Bend your left leg on the floor so that your left foot sits close to your right hip and buttock. The left knee should stay flat on the floor throughout the posture. 2. Now lift the right leg up and over and place
torso upright until your foot appears behind your head. Only then can you start to lower your torso; the full (and almost impossible) expression of the posture is to have your legs in standing splits and your torso parallel to the ground. Like I said
. 2. When you're in the full expression, bend at the waist, keeping your standing leg straight. It's essential your leg is locked or you could strain your knee. It doesn't matter if you're still holding your foot, you bend at the waist (keeping your
. Cross your right leg over your left leg just above the left knee.6. Now move you right foot behind your left leg and hook your foot over your left calf muscle. Don't worry if you can't get the foot behind the other calf just yet - it take some people
would sound like one of the muppets.But it does good things, really good things, as Olga Allon, Director of London's Hot Bikram Yoga explains: "This is a forward compression pose, and your throat is meant to feel a little bit choked. By compressing
and the range of movement around the joints, training runners to use the body as one unit, teaching alignment and restoring balance.Hot yoga, of course, takes this one step further. The use of a hot room (typically up to 40˚C) increases blood flow to the muscles