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Free short video with several different things you can do to open and stretch your quadriceps. You can do this for yoga or running. It should help align the bones and joints to prevent and alleviate knee and hip pain. Try a few of the suggestions in this free yoga video and see if it brings a little less tension in your thighs when running or doing yoga.

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (Pigeon pose) is a common pose in yoga classes. This free yoga video demonstrates pigeon step-by-step to help you when you go to your first yoga class. Watch Brian Thacker in the Natural Self Yoga Greensboro studio.

Strengthen your core in less than 10 minutes with me and all the visitors to the Old Well in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Yoga poses are much easier with a stronger core. It's a free funny yoga video in a fun location. Enjoy the fun at the well that happens when families visit Chapel Hill while you strengthen your core. Boat pose, Navasana, Plank pose, Side Plank. We cover it all. Have fun with me. Namaste!

Pranayama is one of the 8 limbs of yoga. This free yoga video goes over one of my favorite breathing techniques. These techniques can be used to calm your mind before meditating. It is also calming if done during stressful times in your life. Breath retention can be done anywhere for any duration of time. One minute or thirty minutes it will help you!

Pigeon pose is common in yoga classes. There are variations you can do in a class when they cue pigeon. Many teachers already guide this. But if you are at home and want a little more spice to this pose, This free yoga video will help. Open your quadriceps and back with this variation. The prop tricks make building into the poses easier. It's a short but sweet tutorial full of lots of helpful tips.

Binds can help deepen a practice in any class setting. Sometimes after you have opened your body in poses such as lizard, an individual practitioner will be able to go deeper into a pose than most of the other people in class. This is what people refer to when they consider yoga to be bending your body into pretzels. It is really just going deeper into the pose as your body allows. This is a short tutorial for your lizard pose bind. It is a lot easier than it looks. Most people can access this one early. When they lock the hands they are usually surprised how easy it is. It is a strange feeling but it is mostly core. You can do many variations. But this is something that could spice up your practice even if the teacher does not cue this variation in class. Once the teacher cues lizard, GO FOR IT (as long as your hips are open enough. Thanks and enjoy!