Aurorae's 12 Yoga Poses of Christmas - Yoga Pose 9 & 10

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season.

Day 9 Yoga Pose: Mountain Pose (Tadasana)

The Mountain Pose is the most basic pose of all positions, but is also the most important. It is from this pose that you your many other positions will begin. You must make sure that your alignment is correct so that when you move to your next position you begin in alignment. Stand up straight with your legs together. Do not lock your knees and let your arms hang loosely by your sides. Lift up your toes to that they are flexed out and fanned towards the ceiling. Now let them drop down so you have a wid base beneath you. Distribute your weight evenly. Shift your weight until you can feel it distributed around you and not just in your toes and feet. Flex your quad muscles so your knees rise. Contract your abdominal muscles so it flexes towards your spine. Elongate your neck while keeping your shoulders wide and pull your chin in and head up so the crown of your head rises toward the ceiling.

What are the benefits of the Mountain Pose?

• It improves height and makes your spine more flexible.
• It strengthens your thighs, knees and ankles.
• It firms your abdonimal muscles and buttocks while relieving sciatica and reduces flat feet.
• It improves posture.

Day 10 Yoga Pose: Half Lotus Pose (Ardha Padmasana)

Sit on the ground with your head and spine erect and keep your shoulders up high. Extend your legs forward so that your knees and heels are touching. Bend your right leg at the knee and move the bent knee towards your chest. Keep your calf touching the thigh and place the bent knee towards the floor. Hold your right foot's heel with your right hand and hold the toe with the left hand bringing the right foot over the left thigh with its sole facing upward. Keep the other leg straight. Now, bend your left leg and place it under your right leg so that your left sol is under the right thigh. Touch the thumb of each hand to the index finger at the tips to form a circle. Remain in this final posture with your eyes closed for about 1-2 minutes or your breakpoint. Repeat the above steps by switching legs one on top of the other.



What are the benefits of the Half Lotus Pose?

• It relaxes the entire nervous system
• It lessens the tension and stiffness in your ankles, kneeds and thighs
• It provides a comfortable sitting position for resting the mind

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Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste

Aurorae's 12 Yoga Poses of Christmas - Day 8

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season. 

Day 8 Yoga Pose: Tree Pose (Vrksasana)

From Mountain pose, shift your weight onto your left leg and bring your right heel up to the left inner thigh, or somewhere above your knee, with the bottom of your foot against your inner thight. Your body will look like a number four. Make sure that your toes are pointing to the floor. Place your palms together in Namaste (prayer position) and lift up through the core of your body. Let your bent leg feel like a heavy branch as your release your hip. Breathe deeply and hold for several breaths. You can bring your hands up if you are balanced and reach up towards the sky and looking up at your hands. Switch to the other side.

What are the benefits of the Tree Pose?

• It increases balance, focus, memory and concentration
• It strengthens your ankles and knees
• It exercises your chest, groin, thighs and shoulders
• It is great for helping sciatica and flat feet
• It builds up muscles in your calves, spine and thighs

 

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Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste

Aurorae's 12 Yoga Poses of Christmas - Day 6

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season.

Day 6 Yoga Pose: Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)

From your Warrior I pose, open your arms out and bring the right arm in front of you and the left arm behind. Now open your left hip back and keep your right knee bent and your right thigh parallel to the floor. From here, draw your belly in slightly and make sure that your shoulders are directly over the hips. Now reach out through both finger tips as high as you can and gaze forward over your right hand. Now engage the triceps to support your arms and your quads to support your legs. Repeat on the left side.

What are the benefits of the Warrior II pose? 

• It strengthens your legs and arms
• It opens up your chest and shoulders
• It tones your abdominal muscles
• It increases your stamina
• It creates improved strength in your legs and ankles
• It is therapeutic for flat feet, sciatica, backaches and osteoperosis

For product descriptions on the Aurorae yoga accessories such as the yoga block and yoga strap, you can visit our website. Free shipping when you spend $25 or more.

If you ever have any questions, please reach out to Aurorae. 

Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste



Aurorae's 12 Yoga Poses of Christmas - Day 4

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season.


Day 4 Yoga Pose: Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)


Start on all fours with your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees bent at a 90 degree angle. Then, move your hands about one hand length forward. The goal is to have a 90 degree angle when you are up in the pose. Make sure your fingers are spread wide and press firmly into the ground. Tilt your tailbone and sitbone toward the ceiling. Press your lower abdominal muscles up and back. Push your hips strongly up and back, bringing your body into an upside-down "V" at a 90 degree angle. Slightly bend your knees at first if you cannot straighten. Use your arms as little as possible. Push up and back with your abdominal muscles and lower back. Use the heels of your hands to press into the ground. Remain in pose for one minute and the build to two or more.

What are the benefits of the downward facing dog pose?

• It strengthens muscles in your arms, shoulders, sides, chest and upper back.
• It strengthens muscles in your ankles, calves, thighs and lower back.
• It improves digestion.
• It alleviates symptoms of menopause and menstrual discomfort.
• It can alleviate anxiety, mild depression and stress.
• It can make you feel more energized when you are tired.

For product descriptions on the Aurorae yoga accessories such as the yoga block and yoga strap, you can visit our website. Free shipping when you spend $25 or more.

If you ever have any questions, please reach out to Aurorae. 

Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste

Aurorae's 12 Poses of Christmas - Day 3

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season.


Day 3 Yoga Pose: Seated Forward Bend (Paschimottanasana)

Sit on the floor with your legs straight in front of you. Press through the heels and rock slighty onto your left buttock while pulling your right sitting bone away from the hell with your right hand. Repeat with the other side. Turn the top thighs in slightly and press them down into the floor. Press through your hand palms or finger tips, whichever you can get, on the floor beside your hips and lift the top of your chest toward the ceiling. Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of your pelvis. If you are unable to do this, loop a strap around the soles of your feet (as shown below), and hold the strap firmly. Keep your elbows straight. With every breath, lift and lengthen the front of your chest slightly and with every exhale, release a little more into the forward bend. Stay in pose for 1-3 minutes.

What are the benefits of the seated forward bend?

• It stretches your spine, back, hamstrings and groin
• It massages and stimulates your liver and kidneys
• It improves digestion and helps with gastric ailments
• It calms your mind and central nervous system
• It relieves anxiety, fatigue, headache, and menstrual discomfort
• It helps relieve menopause symptoms
• It is therapeutic for depression, insomnia or high blood pressure

For product descriptions on the Aurorae yoga accessories such as the yoga block and yoga strap, you can visit our website. Free shipping when you spend $25 or more.

If you ever have any questions, please reach out to Aurorae. 

Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste

Aurorae's 12 Yoga Poses of Christmas

Aurorae is proud to announce our "12 Yoga Poses of Christmas" in light of the holiday season.


We hope you find these poses useful in your daily lives. Aurorae offers the best yoga mats and yoga accessories for this holiday season. If you ever have any questions about our products, these poses, or anything else related to yoga and yoga products, we are happy to be of service to you. We love our Aurorae family of customers, reviewers, bloggers, friends, and anyone else who has supported Aurorae through the year.


Day 1 Yoga Pose: Triangle Pose (Trikonasana)

Step the legs apart. Turn one leg 90 degrees. Place the lower hand on the mat, if possible, and extend the other up. The left one is shown opposite. Then slowly enter the yoga posture by placing the hand down on the leg or on the mat (The hand can be placed on the inside or outside of the feet. You can also grab the big toe). Vertically align the arms with the shoulders. Stretch downwards and upwards with that arms.

What are the benefits of the triangle pose?

• It stretches the legs, and muscles around the knee, ankle joints, hips, groin muscles, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, chest and spine
• It strengthens your legs, knees, ankles, abdominals, obliques and back
• It stimulates the function of your abdominal organs
• It relieves stress
• It improves digestion and constipation
• It helps to alleviate back pain and symptoms of menopause
• It is used therapeutically for anxiety, infertility, neck pain

If you ever have any questions, please reach out to Aurorae. 

Remember, "It's Your Yoga."

Relax, Enjoy and Namaste

How to Stop Slipping On Your Yoga Mat

This video from Aurorae Yoga, offering the best yoga mats, yoga accessories and the finest customer service on the web, shows you how to stop slipping on your yoga mat. Aurorae Slip Free Rosin Bag is a new product from Aurorae yoga and is made from all natural materials, made in the USA, and helps stop slipping on your yoga mat. Dennis Ingui, owner of Aurorae, explains how to use the Aurorae Slip Free Rosin Bag as well as how and why we slip on our yoga mats.