Develop the skills you need to establish a sustainable yoga practice with this customizable basics program.

In Foundations of a Lifelong Practice: Learning the Basics, yoga teacher Nam Chanterrwyn shares foundational practices to help you gain body awareness and feel more at ease on the mat. You’ll learn basic poses and sequences, such as sun salutations, backbends, forward bends, and hip openers. At each step of the way, Nam offers you suggestions for how to adapt the poses so they are right for your body and so you can progress through the sequences at a pace that’s best for you. And, you’ll learn how to use props to enhance your experience and feel key pose action.

The classes in the program are: Sun Salutation Basics, Upper Back Basics, Lower Back Basics, Back of the Leg Basics, Front of the Leg Basics, Shoulder Basics, and Full Class: Putting the Basics Together.

In each exploration, you’ll warm up with exercises to help you activate specific parts of your body before moving on to an integrative sequence of poses. And, you’ll learn movement nuances that can enhance your embodiment of basic postures—for example, how reaching up through your ring fingers in a lunge can help you cultivate a sense of more space in your body.

So roll out your mat, grab blocks, a blanket, and a strap, and enjoy this inspirational journey!