WHICH YOGA STYLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU THIS SUMMER?
Whether you need to slow down, move, breathe or refocus, there' s a style of yoga that's perfect for you this summer. Each practice is a doorway to an inner state: more gentleness, more strength, more freedom. Through this sensory and inspirational guide, let yourself be guided towards the yoga that resonates with your needs of the moment - for a summer that's just like you, body and soul.
YOGATERRAE, healthy mind, healthy life :)
Written by TINA - July 2025
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WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO DISCOVER
- If you need to be slow and grounded: explore Yin Yoga
When everything goes too fast, Yin becomes a refuge. This deep, slow style invites you to let go, to slow down, to listen... For a gentle summer, connected to the earth and your sensations.
- If you feel the need for inner clarity: Hatha Yoga is for you!
If you're looking to get back to basics, to rediscover a balanced, structuring practice, Hatha Yoga is the obvious choice. It combines breath, postures and presence to create inner harmony.
- You want to move, sweat and release energy: let Vinyasa Yoga do the work for you!
Supple, flowing, sunny, Vinyasa accompanies you in your bursts of summer energy. A dance of breath and movement, perfect for those who want to feel alive, light and powerful.
- Want to breathe deeply: discover Kundalini Yoga
Mantras, intense breathing, vibrations... Kundalini awakens vital energy. Ideal for a vibrant, surprising summer, connected to your intuition and deep emotions.
- If you want to strengthen your body with balance, try Ashtanga Yoga or Power Yoga.
Are you looking for vitality, structure or challenge? Ashtanga anchors you with discipline, Power Yoga liberates you with intensity - two powerful ways to awaken your inner strength.
- If you're looking for a moment's respite, even when travelling: try Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra offers you an inner escape, a parenthesis of absolute calm, wherever you are - lying down, eyes closed, between wakefulness and sleep.
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YOU NEED TO BE SLOW AND GROUNDED: EXPLORE YIN YOGA
When the outer turmoil seeps down to the breath, when the body is crying out for calm and the mind is spinning relentlessly, Yin Yoga becomes a life-saving practice. This style of yoga invites radical slowing down, a slow descent inward. It's a deeply passive and meditative form of yoga, in which each posture is held for between three and seven minutes, on a yoga mat which becomes a veritable cocoon of stability. Here, there's no dynamic flow, no quest for performance: just listening, gravity and the power of non-action.
Lie on your back in Supta Baddha Konasana, legs open like the pages of a self-book. Settle into Sphinx Pose, forearms anchored to the floor, inner gaze focused on emerging sensations. Feel the hips slowly unlock, the shoulders relax, the spine regain space. In this style of yoga, connective tissues - ligaments, fascias, joints - are called upon in depth, releasing physical tensions often linked to held emotions.
Yin yoga is particularly suited to periods of transition, fatigue or mental overload, and is ideal for summer evenings, when the heat of the day gives way to softer light. It is a wonderful accompaniment for sensitive profiles, creative minds, stiff or tired bodies, and all those who feel the need to let go. It's a yoga of anchoring, a yoga of regeneration, a return to the body as one returns home.
Set up your yoga mat facing an open window, let the evening breeze caress your skin, and enter into this motionless journey. Yin yoga will remind you that in stillness, there is transformation. That in silence, there is gold.
YOU NEED INNER CLARITY: PRACTICE HATHA YOGA
When agitation becomes too diffuse, when everything seems blurred, scattered, fragmented... Hatha Yoga brings you back to basics. This ancient style of yoga is the basis of many modern practices. It combines postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and sometimes meditation, in a structured, poised approach where every gesture becomes an act of presence. Here, everything is about alignment, stability and awareness. No need for fast sequences or great flexibility: Hatha offers you a space of clarity in controlled slowness.
On your yoga matsimply begin with Tadasana, the mountain posture, feet rooted, spine erect, hands open. Follow with Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II), and feel the anchoring in your legs, the opening in your chest. Hold each posture for several breaths, feeling the micro-adjustments, the weight of the body distributed, the mind focused on the moment. Hatha Yoga teaches you to observe without fleeing, to hold without forcing, to breathe even with gentle effort.
This style of yoga is ideal for those who need to give structure to their summer, to set down markers after a blurred or busy period. It's perfect for beginners who want to discover yoga without pressure, but also for those who return to their mat after a break. Hatha offers you a neutral ground, where nothing is asked of you except to be there, fully. It's a yoga of inner alignment, a yoga that gives you back your spine - literally and figuratively.
Whether you practice it at dawn, in the golden light of a summer morning, or at the end of the day to refocus, Hatha Yoga transforms the yoga mat into an axis of refocusing. There's nothing spectacular about it. And perhaps that's precisely where it's essential.
YOU WANT TO MOVE, SWEAT AND RELEASE ENERGY: LET YOURSELF BE CARRIED AWAY BY VINYASA YOGA
There are summers when you feel the need to get your body moving again, to sweat, to activate your energy, to feel your inner fire rekindling. Vinyasa Yoga is a fluid and powerful style of yoga, where postures follow one another to the rhythm of the breath. Every inhalation becomes an opening, every exhalation an action. On your yoga matyou never stand still for long: you become the movement itself.
Start with a simple sun salutation(Surya Namaskar A), where the breath guides each transition: Tadasana, Urdhva Hastasana, Uttanasana, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Chaturanga, Bhujangasana, then back. Repeat, feel, intensify. Then add more structured variations: High Lunge, Reverse Warrior, Ardha Chandrasana, Crow Pose, or even a Wild Thing to open the heart. Vinyasa Yoga offers an infinite number of possible sequences, adaptable to your level, your energy level and your mood.
It's an ideal style of yoga for people who like to sweat, challenge themselves and create a strong link between strength and flexibility. It's particularly popular in summer, when it releases accumulated heat, stimulates circulation and boosts vital energy. On a non-slipyoga mat , the body is fully engaged, muscles work in depth, and the mind is soothed by the moving breath. Each session becomes a conscious dance, a free choreography, a meditation in action.
Vinyasa is particularly recommended for those who practice sport or dance, or who like to feel their heart accelerate with awareness. It's a solar yoga, alive and deeply rooted in the moment. On your mat, you don't run away from anything - you transform everything through movement.
YOU NEED TO BREATHE DEEPLY: DISCOVER KUNDALINI YOGA
Summer is sometimes the time when we feel the need to release... something. Some pent-up emotion, accumulated fatigue, a poorly channeled inner fire. Kundalini Yoga is a powerful style of yoga, surprising, sometimes confusing, but profoundly transformative. It acts on the vital energy - prana - by mobilizing breath, postures, mudras (gestures), mantras (sacred sounds) and mental concentration in a multidimensional practice.
On your yoga matYou often begin seated, cross-legged, eyes closed, palms facing the sky. You intone the opening mantra "Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo", a way of connecting with your intuition. Next come the kriyas, dynamic ritual series that activate specific areas of the body and mind. For example: raising and lowering the arms for 3 minutes in fire breathing; holding a camel posture while chanting a mantra; alternating powerful breaths through the left and right nostrils. Kundalini Yoga shakes things up, but gets them flowing. It awakens.
This style of yoga is ideal if you're going through a phase of emotional stagnation or inner fog, or if you need to reconnect with a form of inner vitality that's more intuitive than muscular. It's also invaluable for boosting mental clarity, immunity and nervous stamina. Even lying on your yoga matin the final relaxation, you'll feel a new flow circulating through your entire system.
Whether practiced at sunrise, in the silence of the morning, or at the end of the day to clear away the clutter, Kundalini reminds you that you are energy first and foremost - and that your breath is the key to all transformations.
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YOU WANT TO STRENGTHEN YOUR BODY WITH BALANCE: TRY ASHTANGA YOGA OR POWER YOGA
If you feel the need for structure, intensity and controlled strength, these two styles of yoga are for you.Ashtanga Yoga is a rigorous practice, based on codified series of postures, always in the same order, to be repeated and deepened day after day. On your yoga matyou start with sun salutations(Surya Namaskar A & B), before moving on to the Primary Series: Padangusthasana, Trikonasana, Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana, Navasana, Setu Bandhasana, and on to the final Savasana. Each posture is held for five breaths, and each transition is punctuated by the breath (vinyasa).
Ashtanga demands discipline, but in return offers a feeling of inner stability and silent power. It's a yoga of commitment, where you move forward with patience and perseverance. Perfect for structuring your summer, laying down a powerful routine and filling up with channeled energy.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a freer approach that's just as physical, let yourself be carried away by Power Yoga. Inspired by Ashtanga, this modern yoga style frees itself from fixed series to offer toned, creative flows adapted to each individual's level. In a Power Yoga sequence, you could do Plank, Chaturanga, Side Plank, Chair Pose, Revolved Crescent Lunge, Wheel Pose, with more athletic, sometimes cardio, variations. Here, the mat becomes an intense, but always conscious, playground.
Both styles are ideal for those who want to tone their bodies, work on posture, strengthen legs, abdominals and back, while developing breath and mind. In the morning, on a sunny terrace, or at the end of the day to let off steam in a healthy way, Ashtanga and Power Yoga awaken your inner fire, anchor you, sculpt you - in a dynamic of gentle but assertive surpassing.
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A MOMENT'S RESPITE, EVEN WHEN TRAVELLING: DISCOVER YOGA NIDRA
There are days when you just don't have the energy to move, or even to say hello to the sun. Suspended moments when the body demands absolute calm, and the mind a space to breathe. Yoga Nidra is a style of yoga in a class of its own: still yoga, lying down on your yoga mateyes closed, guided by voice. It's neither meditation nor sleep - but a subtle state somewhere in between, an inner journey to the edge of consciousness.
Lie in Savasana, arms slightly apart, palms facing the sky. Let yourself be guided by deep relaxation: body scan, conscious breathing, symbolic visualizations... Each step takes you a little further into relaxation. Thirty minutes of Yoga Nidra regenerates the nervous system, dissolves tension and rebalances energy. It's a particularly valuable practice in summer, after an active day, a long commute, or even simply to find a gentle anchor in moments of mental fatigue.
This style of yoga is accessible to everyone, without any particular physical condition. It requires nothing more than being there, lying down, available to yourself. And even when you're traveling, on a yoga mat or a simple sheet in the shade, Yoga Nidra envelops you like a cocoon of calm. It reminds you that you have nothing to prove, nothing to produce. Just feel, welcome and let go. Because sometimes, resting deeply is the greatest act of transformation.
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There's no one right style of yoga, no one right way to practice. There's your rhythm, your needs, your breath, and the freedom to explore what feels good to you. Whether you choose the slowness of Yin, the strength of Ashtanga, the fluidity of Vinyasa or the deep silence of Yoga Nidra, each practice is a gateway to more presence, more light, more of you.
And to accompany this inner journey, a yoga mat can make all the difference. Soft or non-slip, colorful or sober, light or structured... your mat becomes the place of all possibilities. It's waiting for you, somewhere between heaven and earth.
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TINA's bio
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TINA
1994, Reunion Island & Mauritius, a Life inspired by the Indian Ocean and Yoga
Since childhood, this intrepid traveler has criss-crossed the globe, leaving her footprints on beaches the world over.Passionate about surfing, scuba diving and sailing, she has made the ocean her playground and source of inspiration.
The freedom of the waves, the serenity of the ocean depths and the wind in his sails have punctuated his journey, always guided by a quest for connection with nature.
Through her explorations, yoga has become more than a practice for her - it's a way of life.
Between morning surf sessions and meditative sunsets, she has found in yoga a perfect balance of strength, fluidity and self-awareness.
Today, she combines her passion for water sports with teaching yoga and is part of the Yogaterrae team, here in France, in the South-West and often remotely :)
This adventuress is a true source of inspiration for anyone who aspires to live in harmony with their body and nature.
Through her stories of incredible experiences, she invites everyone to open up to a world where every wave, every breath and every posture is a celebration of life.
