Category Archives: Rachel Land

10 Ways Yoga Straps Can Deepen Your Practice

By Rachel Land, Senior Yoga Medicine® teacher, for Yoga Digest. Props are for students who can’t do the “full [...]

Breaking Boundaries to Teach Online

By Rachel Land, Senior Yoga Medicine® teacher, for Yoga Digest. Times have changed, and teaching yoga has changed too. [...]

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4 More Common Poses That Require Greater-Than-Average Mobility

By Rachel Land for Yoga International. Rachel examines four familiar poses, explains why they won’t [...]

Shoulder Tension Release

By Rachel Land for Yoga Medicine®. Follow along with this 4 minute shoulder release yoga sequence with Rachel [...]

The 18 Best Yoga Poses for Beginners

By Timothy Burgin for Yoga Basics. If you are new to yoga, you might feel [...]

Yoga for Shoulders: Healthy Shoulder Positioning in Common Yoga Poses

By Rachel Land for Yoga Medicine®. Our arms and hands are in front of the body most of [...]

The Strength to Surrender: Compassionate Backbends

Life has a compressive quality. We are all subject to the downward pull of gravity, [...]

Teaching Older Beginners: Medical Considerations to Keep in Mind

Senior Yoga Medicine® teacher, Rachel Land, explains on Yoga International which medical conditions become increasingly common with age and how [...]

Why Flexible People Can Still Benefit from Yin Yoga

Senior Yoga Medicine® teacher, Rachel Land, shares four ways that even the most flexible yogis can benefit from yin [...]

5 Common Poses That Require Greater Than Average Mobility

Senior Yoga Medicine® teacher, Rachel Land, examines five familiar poses and explains the value of adopting a more [...]