yoga videos

Today marks the end of the first JWM Yoga Challenge. You now have a nice sampling of what yoga has to offer: asana, pranayama, philosophy, meditation, music (click for last week’s playlist), and more! If you are new to my website, feel free to browse the entire yoga channel to find more information and videos on all of the above topics (Please watch the videos on a computer screen as they are not viewable on all mobile devices).

To close out the yoga challenge, I am providing you with a wonderful 10-minute morning yoga sequence, the fourth of my AM series. The practice is fashioned for beginners and yogis of all levels. There’s nothing like a fresh morning yoga sequence to get you out of bed with comfort, balance, and ease. The sequence is designed to gently awaken your energy, get your circulation going, open up your joints, stretch and lightly tone your muscles, and finally, to ground you through a couple of simple standing balances. Focus your attention on your breath and alignment for even more relief from residual morning stiffness. The effects of this short practice will remain with you throughout the day!

 

The most viewed JWM yoga videos include:

How To Do Dolphin, Forearm Stand and Scorpion

Office Yoga

Yoga for the Hips

Morning Yoga 3

Tone-Up, Enhance Your Balance, Improve Your Flexibility, and Feel Good!

Tripod Headstand

 

If you’ve missed any of The JWM challenges to date, you can review them whenever you like by clicking on the following links:

JWM Core Challenge

JWM Food Challenge

JWM Yoga Challenge

 

*Ps. I’d like to see more activity from you all with the core videos! Core strength helps to improve your posture, yoga practice, digestive health, back issues, and so much more.

Stay tuned for more from The JWM.

 

All The Best,

Julie

There’s nothing like a great morning yoga sequence to get you out of bed in the morning with comfort, balance, and ease. Join Julie Wilcox for this 10-minute AM morning yoga video. Julie guides you through a sequence designed to gently awaken your energy, get your circulation going, open your joints, stretch your muscles, and finally, to ground you through simple balances.

This tone-up yoga video is a quick yet strong and effective practice for intermediate yoga students. Take 20-minutes of your day to sculpt your muscles and find strength and balance in all areas of your body.

The sequence includes several simple arm balances, standing balances on one leg, and postures that fine tune the many large and small muscles of the body. It also includes backbends to strengthen and open your back, chest, shoulders, legs, and arms. Finally, no yoga posture escapes core toning when done correctly!

Balance out your system with this awesome 30-minute evening yoga video. This PM yoga video will leave you feeling calm and mellow as you move through your evening affairs.

The tripod headstand, like all yoga inversions, can have amazing health benefits when done safely and correctly. Added perks come when variations are added to the posture (in this yoga tripod headstand video we will add internal and external hip openers).

A former gymnast, one of my greatest joys and strengths is teaching yoga inversions. Watch this video and learn how to do a tripod headstand and how to open your hips while you’re in it!

*This practice is for intermediate-advanced and advanced students only. If you have never done or mastered tripod headstand before, do not attempt this post on your own.

Health Benefits Of Yoga Inversions:

~strengthen and tone upper body (arms, shoulders, neck, wrists, hands, pectorals, deltoids, and all muscles of the back) and legs (especially adductors, glutes, quads, and feet)

~improve balance

~improve concentration

~regulate and slow the breath

~calm the mind

~drain the lymphatic system

~enhance the mind body connection

~strengthen the core

 

Watch the tripod headstand video with Julie Wilcox here:

 

If you have never done yoga before, this video is for you. In this beginner yoga video, I cover three yoga poses, Warrior 2, Extended Side Angle, and Triangle. These poses will kick-start your practice and serve as the foundation for many other yoga asanas (poses). Take your time to pause the video and perfect your alignment; it is critical to start your practice by learning how to perform safe and effective asanas. As your practice evolves or if you are already intermediate or advanced yoga students, click on the links below to learn the advanced stages of the yoga poses. And, for all, the links below provide the health benefits of Warrior 2, Extended Side Angle, and Triangle.

 

Click below for more videos on how to do warrior 2, how to do extended side angle, and how to do triangle pose. In these yoga videos I take you through each individual posture from the beginner to the advanced stages of the poses. You can also read about the health benefits of Warrior 2, the health benefits of Extended Side Angle, and the health benefits of Triangle pose.

Learn How To Do Warrior 2 With Julie Wilcox

Learn Extended Side Angle With Julie Wilcox

How To Do Triangle Pose With Julie Wilcox

 

20-Min.Evening Yoga With Julie Wilcox | Energizing PM Yoga 

Let your hard day’s work fall to the wayside with this 20-minute evening yoga sequence. Energizing PM yoga will pick you up so that you can have fun whatever you need to do: go out for dinner with friends; spend the evening with your kids; attend a corporate event; or be an awesome partner (and if you don’t have a significant other put the energy into yourself).

Energizing evening yoga is a fabulous way to relieve stress from the office, the feeling of being totally drained, and will bring you to a place of vitality and calm.

 

Today The Julie Wilcox Method brings you a third morning yoga video for your library. This yoga video is targeted to intermediate and strong intermediate yoga students. It is 35-minutes long. For any intermediate or advanced yoga practice, you must make sure to properly warm up your body, which is very difficult to do in less than 35-minutes. If all you can do is a super quick morning yoga practice, please stay safe and simple and do Morning Yoga Practice Video 1 or Morning Yoga Practice Video 2, which are not as demanding as is this yoga video and are for all levels. Have a safe and enjoyable practice! Below are some photos from the video.

 

Extended Hand-To-Big-Toe-Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangustasana)

 

Chair Pose (Utkatasana)

 

Headstand (Sirsasana)

 

Marichiasana Sage Pose

 

Julie Wilcox In Lotus Meditation

This is the second video of a morning yoga series I am offering you this week. The idea is that you will build a small video library of morning yoga sequences from which you can choose each day.  I hope you enjoy the videos and that they help to facilitate your daily practice (sadhana)! Having a consistent daily practice is critical to your well-being.  The videos are designed for all levels from the beginner yogi to the advanced yoga when you just need to squeeze that short less than 15-minutes of yoga into your schedule. Get rid of your excuses and get your yoga on!

Watch the video here:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1egZhqU3Q

Best,

Julie

I am wearing a Hardtail Forever Top and Beyond Yoga shorts in this video.

Triangle Pose, The Julie Wilcox Method

 

Mountain Pose With Shoulder And Upper Back Strech