Yoga ideas all year long

Trying to get back into yoga and I am looking for ideas. I am looking for a yoga routine to help with flexibility, strength, and cardiovascular health. So yoga routines that could be done in about ten minutes if I am in a hurry. Also routines that I could do in half an hour or more. I am thinking if I have a break at work I could do a short routine maybe under five minutes. So avoiding positions on the ground would be good for short routine and other positions like mountain pose would be better when I have time.

Also I would like to find a way to keep doing yoga after a hot and heavy day of work in the summer. Last summer I did not have a lot of energy after working outside in the heat. I remember reading about restorative yoga would this help me after a long hot day? What other yoga practices would work better in the winter and/or summer? Is there seasonal yoga?

One last thing, I am a guy who is about six feet tall. I do not see any issues doing yoga positions, well maybe the head stand position and reading a newspaper!

You might find something here: https://permies.com/t/187334/personal-care/purity/good-yoga-tai-chi-recommendations

 Is one of my favorites. Simple, sweet. Love the energy she brings. Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Check out an app called Insight Timer ... I think you will find EXCATLY what your looking for 🧘

Yoga from the expert one:
https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/yoga-meditation/additional-programs/sadhguru-offerings

An app called Downdog is good. It’s 14.95 a year sometimes, or free trial then 49 a year. You can pick from a bunch of practices including Hatha or restorative or an active practice. You can pick a “boost” like neck, back, breathing or balance. You can choose any amount of time 10-90 minutes, whether to have background noise or not (nature sounds or what variety of music) as well as volume. You can pick the voice of instructor. And there is a video to watch. Good luck!

I use yoga with adriene on youtube.   It's got workplace yoga routines,   do-anywhere moves,  longer flows when I have more time,  she's got a LOT of content.  Stuff you can do at work in your jeans,   routines that are all standing.    

I need to do SOME yoga daily to manage pain/inflammation/stiffness and her channel is my favorite when I need something.   Even specific things like "yoga for feet" etc.  

https://www.youtube.com/@yogawithadriene

When recovering from spine surgery I discovered the 15-minute yoga routine that became my daily practice for years afterward. It is still my go-to.
It is called Yoga for Detox, and I found it on the DVD called, "Dr. John Douillard--Ayurveda for Detox." I see some are available on Ebay ($5) and other sites right now, and Dr. Douillard probably still sells them on his own site.  If I could do it after 3 major spine surgeries, it's got to be do-able for you!  BTW, at that same time my husband was very muscular and fit (weight lifter and cyclist) but lacked flexibility.  He joined me and loved it.

Hi Rebecca,

Welcome to Permies.

Did a little yoga today. Used this video off of YouTube. It was a good and I found it easy to follow.

Note to myself and others, make sure to have a little space around for yoga. Like moving tool boxes and tools out of the way. Nothing bad happen just a "oh I need to move that thing out of the way next time"!

T Blankinship wrote:Trying to get back into yoga and I am looking for ideas. I am looking for a yoga routine to help with flexibility, strength, and cardiovascular health. So yoga routines that could be done in about ten minutes if I am in a hurry. Also routines that I could do in half an hour or more. I am thinking if I have a break at work I could do a short routine maybe under five minutes. So avoiding positions on the ground would be good for short routine and other positions like mountain pose would be better when I have time.

Also I would like to find a way to keep doing yoga after a hot and heavy day of work in the summer. Last summer I did not have a lot of energy after working outside in the heat. I remember reading about restorative yoga would this help me after a long hot day? What other yoga practices would work better in the winter and/or summer? Is there seasonal yoga?

One last thing, I am a guy who is about six feet tall. I do not see any issues doing yoga positions, well maybe the head stand position and reading a newspaper!

Great questions. I hope I can answer some. I've been doing yoga since 2005 and was teaching it for a short while.

Anyway, flexibility, strength and cardio in under 10 minutes and things that keep you off the ground...

Cardio will be hard to achieve in the short time, but for longer workouts Power Yoga routines or the Ashtanga series if you can build up to it. Though the latter is not a beginner thing at all. The former is quite accessible and will leave you feeling like you ran a marathon with your whole body.

For flexibility and strength and staying off the ground - Working between mountain pose, high lunge, warrior 1, warrior 2, wide angle forward bend, and triangle will open your hips, stretch your hamstrings, and build strength in a lot of core muscles. Most of these poses are relatively accessible to beginners to practiced beginners.

Regarding yoga after hard work, I find one of the most relaxing poses is to lie down with my legs extended up the wall and my butt as close to the wall as I can possible get it. Or just lie down and do breath practice. Yoga is half breath and half body, sometimes expressed using other (occasionally spiritual) terms. Yoga has the same root as "yoke" as in to yoke together cattle, except in this case yoking the breath and body.

In general I do some variation of the Sun Salutation as my core practice, and then add in whatever I feel like my body wants.

Regarding different seasons... I don't personally think the seasons affect what poses or series I would do, but certainly they affect where I am physically, and that will affect what poses I do.

There are many different thoughts regarding the entirety of yoga as is practiced in the west.

Your height and sex should have little impact on what yoga poses are easy for you to do, however general flexibility and balance will be limitation for a while. I'm an average height, average build white guy who started with a bit more flexibility than average. Also please remember not everyone looks the same in the same pose. Our joints and proportions are all different.

Edit: spelling.

Also. I highly recommend taking classes with a teacher than can give you hands on adjustments if such classes are available. Once you've experienced what a pose is supposed to feel like, it's SO much easier to return to that pose again in the future.