Yoga twists

Learn more about the benefits of yoga twists - are they detoxifying - and how to do them correctly to avoid injury.

The objective of pranayama, or breathing exercises, is to teach the ability to properly inhale, exhale, and retain your breath. There are different branches of pranayama dedicated specifically for inhalation, exhalation, and breathing retention.

This website along with Creating Space blog is devoted to promoting the healthy benefits of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Tian Philson is a registered yoga instructor who teaches vinyasa style yoga in the Cincinnati and Dayton Ohio area.

Join me for this Twisty Yoga Flow where we start with gentle twists, and work up to some more intense and challenging twists. Twisting the body is a fantastic way to release tension in the spine, help you breathe freer, and have more ease of movement. Make sure you lift in and up with your belly every time before coming into a twist, and notice the space you create in your body in order to get deeper in your twist.

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Adding yoga twists to your practice helps support a healthy, flexible spine. Practice along with this yoga twists sequence pose tutorial.