Beginners Yoga Workshop

Online Course

Balance Wellness Studio first offered our Beginners Yoga Workshop in 2012 as an in-studio, new year offering — a way to start a new movement practice to carry you through the year and beyond. To celebrate our 10th year (and avoid COVID-19!) we’re bringing our workshop to the digital world. Students will receive all the same tools: workbook, bonus print references, on-demand videos containing the lecture, pose break-down and instruction, vocabulary and definitions, as well as weekly practices that can be accessed again and again. Bookmark this page to find all the links to your Beginners Workshop resources. (This is our first foray into this medium, so please be patient with us, but don’t hesitate to send us feedback, ask questions, and let us know how we can make this as good an experience as you’d get live in our studio.)

Print Materials

Video Lessons

Videos are posted to YouTube due to file size. Links are accessed here.

Week 1 Lessons

• Intro: What is Yoga?
• Instructors, Props, Guidelines
• Lesson 1: Let’s Be Seated; Namaste, Breath, Mudras; The Poses
• Lesson 1: Vinyasa Flow Practice – 23 minutes (updated for clarity)

Week 2 Lessons

• Lesson 2: Review, Om, Vinyasa, Sun Salutations
• Lesson 2: The Poses
• Lesson 2: Vinyasa Flow Practice (approx 34 minutes)

Week 3 Lessons

• Lesson 3: Review, Drishti, Bandhas, Intention, Ujjayi Breath, Vinyasa Link
• Lesson 3: The Poses
• Lesson 3: Vinyasa Flow Practice (approx 36 minutes)

Week 4 Lessons

• Lesson 4: Review, Kriya, Pranayama
• Lesson 4: The Poses
• Lesson 4: Vinyasa Flow Practice
• Meditation: The Perfect 10

Week 5 Lessons

• Introduction to Yin workbook with journal (supplement from Instructor April McEwan)