Example Postures
At Downtown Yoga, you will experience a variety of foundation standing, seated and inversion yoga postures that offer unlimited benefits if performed properly. Example postures include: Downward Facing Dog, Camel, Forward Bends, Lotus, Seated Forward Bends and many more. Click on the image for the name of the posture and benefits.

Don't be intimidated by what you see. If you encounter a pose during class you are not quite ready for, the teachers will provide modifications. We will motivate you to find your edge, but we ask that you honor your body and do only what is comfortable and feels right. With time, you may find that you can, indeed, master that challenging pose.
Downward-Facing Dog
Adho Mukha Svanasana

Benefits:
  • Increases strength in arms and legs
  • Improves digestion
  • Boosts body's energy levels
  • Reduces fatigue
  • Helps relieve stress
  • Creates full body stretch
  • Lengthens the spine

Triangle Pose
Trikonasana

Benefits:
  • Stretches and strengthens the thighs, knees and ankles
  • Stretches the hips, groins, hamstrings, and calves; shoulders, chest and spine
  • Stimulates the abdominal organs
  • Helps relieve stress
  • Improves Digestion
  • Therapeutic for anxiety, flat feet, infertility, neck pain, osteoporosis, and sciatica
  • Tones your waist, increases flexibility in hips, builds strength and balance
  • Massages kidneys

Lotus Pose
Padmasana

Benefits:
  • Extremely good pose for meditation and concentration
  • Calming effect on the mind and the nerves
  • Keeps the spine erect
  • Helps develop good posture
  • Helps keep joints in flexible condition
  • Opens up hips and knees

Warrior II
Virabhadrasana

Benefits:
  • Strengthens and stretches the legs and ankles
  • Stretches the groins, chest, lungs and shoulders
  • Stimulates abdominal organs
  • Increases stamina
  • Relieves backaches, especially through second trimester of pregnancy
  • Therapeutic for carpal tunnel syndrome, flat feet, infertility, osteoporosis and sciatica
  • Increases overall flexibility, strength and balance

Upward-Facing Dog
Urdhva Mukha Svanasana

Benefits:
  • The arching of the spine increases flexibility and strength
  • Rejuvenates spinal nerves enriching them with a rich blood supply
  • Improves flexibility and tone of spinal muscles, massages, works and tones back muscles
  • Helps relieve and prevent lower backache
  • Compresses and opens spine
  • Improves Concentration
  • Builds arm strength and prepares you for arm balancing postures

Standing Forward Bend
Uttanasana

Benefits:
  • Increases circulation
  • Increases flexibility in lower back and legs
  • Lengthens the spine
  • Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression
  • Stimulates the liver and kidneys
  • Stretches the hamstrings, calves, and hips
  • Strengthens the thighs and knees
  • Improves digestion
  • Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
  • Reduces fatigue and anxiety
  • Relieves headache and insomnia
  • Therapeutic for asthma, high blood pressure, infertility, osteoporosis, and sinusitis