Henry's Physical Education

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I'm going to explain the four different styles of yoga that I teach. 

I teach restorative, hatha, vinyasa, and power yoga and these might just be completely foreign terms to you so let's get through that right now. 

Restorative Yoga

Restorative yoga is a very relaxing and grounded style of yoga.

I think anybody can do restorative and everybody should do restorative because it's a style of yoga where you don't have to use your muscles because you're going to be in like propped positions using bolsters or even the ground to prop you up and then you just relax. 

You hold postures and restorative yoga for sometimes a minute sometimes three minutes sometimes five minutes even

because it takes a little while for your body to even relax for you to get into that connective tissue.

Restorative yoga can be really good for recovery for healing for anxiety just to help you relax or to wind down before bed. 

Restorative yoga is a wonderful way to get a really deep stretch and to practice patience so let's move on. 

Hatha Yoga

Hatha yoga is like a long holding yoga practice by long holding.

I mean you're going to be sitting in a posture for maybe 30 seconds and then move on to the next posture for maybe a minute and then move on to the next posture for maybe 15 seconds in the next posture.

There's no flowing or sometimes for me I like to add just a little bit of flowing but most time in hatha it's like one long holding posture, another long holding posture to the next long holding posture.

This is really good for beginners because it's a great way to get you used to the poses.

Your body can get used to the poses without any of that really quick flowing that might be so confusing for beginners.

Hatha yoga is another wonderful way to just stretch.

I use hatha yoga practices and I teach hatha yoga practices to help people stretch like the muscles in their neck or their gluts or their legs. 

Usually you can find hatha in a whole practice like at the very end or sometimes half that might

build up to a vinyasa sequence.

Vinyasa

A vinyasa sequence is flowing yoga. Vinyasa is Sanskrit for to place in a special way and in vinyasa we placed the breath in a special way because when you flow, you flow one breath one movement so beginners might feel a little overwhelmed right away with vinyasa but the more you do it the easier it gets because you get stronger you start to develop that muscle awareness that body awareness or muscle memory I guess is what I try to say um...you also start to recognize some of the

terms like chaturanga or you know down dog or uttanasana and it comes a lot easier for you

Power Vinyasa

Power is actually power vinyasa and the idea of power yoga is it's more athletic based. You're going to build a lot of strength using power yoga but power is also a vinyasa practice you're going to have a lot of flowing the difference is is that you're going to be flowing through and sometimes even holding postures that build strength and heat in the body so power is for someone who really just wants to get that big workout on they want to strengthen their body they want to flow and I would recommend

alternating between all of these different kinds of yoga because some

people go power crazy. 

I know at one point in my life I was doing power every day and I was actually injuring myself because I was working so hard and I wasn't taking that time to like step back and relax so my recommendation in using these different styles of yoga is to alternate

if you're gonna go power heavy then add in a day of restorative and a couple

days of hatha if you really like vinyasa then try hatha if you are really into restorative try hatha.

I mean Hatha is kind of like that really nice mamabear like middle ground.