Yoga Poses for Beginners: How-to, Tips, Benefits, Images, Videos

The Yoga Poses for Beginners library serves as a comprehensive intro guide to the most popular yoga poses and sequences, featuring images and videos with how-to instructions and tips.

Becoming familiar with and learning these beginner poses should get you through a class in any of the types of yoga styles. The beginners pose library also serves as a great learning tool and reference guide as you continue to develop your yoga practice. Stay tuned for the addition of new poses, moves, sequences, and videos.






Seated Yoga Poses - Grounding and calming, these poses provide some of our deepest muscle opening and twisting.









Standing Yoga Poses - Good for strength, balance and focus. These energetic poses provide a straight line to shaping our best body.











Arm Balances - These yoga poses are good for strength, body awareness and focus, providing some fun challenges for every body.











Backbends - Opening up in the spine and chest feels great and strengthens our connection to intuition.









Inversions - Good for balance and concentration, as well as circulation.












Core Poses - These poses will strengthen your core and get your abs beach ready!











Yoga Poses for Weight Loss - These poses will help you shed unwanted pounds!











Restorative Poses - These yoga poses are great for winding down and connecting to our breath.











Yoga Poses for Back Pain - Whether the origins are some acute injury or long-term stress, there are a few simple poses that can help with back pain.











Yoga Sequences & Moving (Videos) - How we move and breathe is much more important than the exact shape of our poses, for clearing our bodies and minds and creating our own best health.









Yoga Pose Videos - Watch Michael Taylor take you through a number of yoga poses step-by-step.

Published May 3, 2010 at 9:30 AM