# 1990 VHS • Yoga Practice for Beginners FPS

Yoga Practice for Beginners is a Living Arts and Yoga Journal production hosted by Patricia Walden, who teaches in the Iyengar tradition as a student of B.K.S. Iyengar. Walden introduces the program's structure: warm-up sequence, standing poses as the foundation of Iyengar practice, seated poses for calmness, inverted poses to increase circulation, and deep relaxation. The program emphasizes precise body alignment, use of props including chairs and blocks, and close attention to how the feet and legs create stability for the spine. Standing poses form the core of the practice. Mountain Pose receives detailed alignment instruction covering foot placement, kneecap lifting, pelvis positioning, rib cage, shoulder blades, and head balance. Triangle Pose is demonstrated with and without a block, including two rounds on each side with instruction on how to use the top arm and back leg to extend the spine. Side Stretch follows with two variations including the extended top arm. The program continues through additional standing poses, seated floor poses, and inversions not fully recoverable from the transcript, and closes with an extended relaxation pose featuring detailed guidance on releasing the physical body from feet through skull. A Living Arts catalog segment at 01:17:05 identifies the complete Yoga Practice series.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1990
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-YogaPracticeforBeginners1990)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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