Your Top 10 Favorite Yoga Poses

The first sip of coffee in the morning. The sun pours through the clouds on a cold day. The good kind of abdominal pain that you get by laughing harder than you have in a long time. What these things have in common is that they just landDelivering comfort, inspiration or lighting when you expect it the least – and often when you need it the most.

The same happens on the yoga mat.

Perhaps it is the exhalation that you take when you stand up in a dog that is aimed down or the soothing feeling to sink in Savasana. Consider the poses as portals that you are the best described as the best described as the best described as the best described as the best Ahhhhhh.

At Yoga Journal we know that we are not the only ones who are all about these seemingly ordinary but completely magical moments that take place on the mat. So we asked our community to share their favorites. They did not disappoint.

Your top 10 favorite yoga poses that always deliver

Some of the poses that we have chosen Instagram community And YJ editors are welcome challenges, while others are permission to do nothing. Whatever we choose, they all deliver exactly what we need when we need it. Each. Single. Time.

1. Chair position

This may be controversial, but I really like chair position. Yes, it’s a challenge, but one that my body actually wants to take.

2. Happy Baby Pose

I am always disappointed as a happy baby is excluded from practice. It is a welcome reset and the best back massage ever. Well, the best free Anyway.

3. Fetal pose

There is something about rolling Savasana and Snuggling here that really gives me the feeling that I am getting reborn.

4. Cat pulls his tail

Simply … wow. It’s a turn. It is a quad rack. It is a breast opener. It releases your hamstrings. And it challenges you to breathe and let go despite the intensity. It can be difficult to enter, but worth it.

5. Warrior 2

The name says it all. When I reach my arms to the sides and my gaze focuses in Warrior 2, I feel a total badass with a real bow and arrow in my hand.

6. Humble Warrior

Perhaps the modest warrior should be called, because I always feel a female balance of strength and surrender.

7. Restorative background -bound corner

I remember the first time that a teacher taught me this version, in which you lean back on a sloping bolster (supported by blocks at the far end under your head), inch your heels further away than normal, and rolled blankets under every knee place. I felt like a pee calm.

8. Child’s pose

It touches me every time. Better yet, I add a bolster under my chest in the child’s pose to even make a relaxing pose more Relaxing.

9. Neerwaartse Hond

After a long day it is a way for me to check in with my body in Down Down Dog, to see where I keep tension and actively work through it.

10. Savasana

I get the same feeling in Savasana that I get when I get home after being away for a while – it’s like I can leave the world behind and finally get fun with myself. The best.