What Makes a Vinyasa Yoga Class Unique?
In a Vinyasa Yoga class, the instructor will always cue you to move as you breathe. For example, she may instruct you to inhale as you raise your arms to the sky and then exhale and bow forward into uttanasana, a standing forward bend. While there are times during a class when poses are held for longer than one cycle of inhaling and exhaling, the work is usually more fast-paced than that in a Hatha Yoga class. For this reason, Vinyasa may be more appealing to those who want a cardiovascular workout. Vinyasa Yoga allows for a wide variety of poses during the course of a class, resulting in a balanced workout. A Vinyasa Yoga class involves moving your spine in all directions. There are forward bends, backbends, sidebends and twists. In addition, there are hip openers, balancing stances and other poses that stretch, realign, relax, and strengthen the entire body. Vinyasa Yoga also includes many rounds of Sun Salutations, a series of movements performed at the beginning of class to warm th
