WHAT STYLE OF YOGA IS BEST 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 gateway to an inner state: more gentleness, more strength, more freedom. Through this sensory and inspired guide, let yourself be guided to the yoga that resonates with your current needs—for a summer that's right for you, body and soul.
YOGATERRAE, healthy mind, healthy life :)
Written by TINA - July 2025
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WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO DISCOVER
• You need slowness and grounding: explore Yin Yoga
When things are moving too fast, Yin becomes a refuge. This slow and deep style invites you to settle down, slow down, and listen... For a gentle summer, connected to the earth and your feelings.
• You feel the need for inner clarity: make way for Hatha Yoga
If you're looking to get back to basics and rediscover a balanced and structured practice, Hatha Yoga is the perfect choice. It combines breath, postures, and presence to create inner harmony.
• You want to move, sweat and release energy: let yourself be carried away by Vinyasa Yoga
Flexible, fluid, and radiant, 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.
• You 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.
• You want to strengthen your body with balance: try Ashtanga Yoga or Power Yoga
Are you thirsting for vitality, structure, or transcendence? Ashtanga grounds you with discipline, Power Yoga liberates you with intensity—two powerful paths to awakening the strength within you.
• Looking for a moment of respite, even while traveling: try Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra offers you an inner escape, a moment of absolute calm, wherever you are—lying down, eyes closed, between wakefulness and sleep.
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YOU NEED SLOWNESS AND GROUNDING: EXPLORE YIN YOGA
When the external tumult infiltrates the breath, when the body demands calm and the mind spins relentlessly, Yin Yoga becomes a healing practice. This style of yoga invites a radical slowdown, a slow descent inward. It is a deeply passive and meditative yoga, where each posture is held for between three and seven minutes, on a thick, soft yoga mat that becomes a true cocoon of stability. Here, there is no dynamic flow, no search 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, your inward gaze turned toward the sensations that emerge. Feel the hips slowly unlocking, the shoulders relaxing, the spine regaining space. In this style of yoga , connective tissues—ligaments, fascia, joints—are deeply engaged, releasing physical tension often linked to retained 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 a softer light. It is a wonderful accompaniment for sensitive profiles, creative minds, stiff or tired bodies, and all those who feel the need to settle down. It is a yoga of anchoring , a yoga of regeneration , a return to the body as one returns home.
Place your yoga mat facing an open window, let the evening breeze caress your skin, and enter this motionless journey. Yin Yoga will remind you that in stillness, there is transformation. That in silence, there is gold.
YOU FEEL THE NEED FOR INNER CLARITY: PRACTICE HATHA YOGA
When the hustle and bustle becomes too diffuse, when everything seems blurry, scattered, fragmented... Hatha Yoga brings you back to the essential. 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, calm approach, where each movement becomes an act of presence. Here, everything is alignment, stability, awareness. No need for fast sequences or great flexibility: Hatha offers you a space of clarity in controlled slowness.
On your yoga mat , simply start with Tadasana , the mountain pose, 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, feel the micro-adjustments, the body weight distributed, the mind focused on the moment. Hatha Yoga teaches you to observe without fleeing, to hold without forcing, to breathe even in gentle effort.
This style of yoga is ideal for those who need to structure their summer, to establish some benchmarks after a vague or overly busy period. It is ideal for beginners who want to discover yoga without pressure, but also for those who are returning to their mat after a break. Hatha offers you a neutral ground, where nothing is asked of you except to be there, fully. It is 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 center yourself, Hatha Yoga transforms yoga mat into a centering tool. There's nothing spectacular about it. And perhaps that's precisely where it's essential.
WANT TO MOVE, SWEAT AND RELEASE ENERGY: LET YOURSELF BE CARRIED 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 rekindle. Vinyasa Yoga is a fluid and powerful style of yoga , where postures flow in time with your breathing. Each inhalation becomes an opening, each exhalation an action. On your yoga mat , you never stay 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 constructed variations: High Lunge , Reverse Warrior , Ardha Chandrasana , Crow Pose , or even a Wild Thing to open the heart. Vinyasa Yoga offers you an infinite number of possible sequences, adaptable according to your level, your energy of the day, your mood.
This is an ideal yoga style for people who like to sweat, push themselves, and create a strong connection between strength and flexibility. It is very popular in summer because it releases accumulated heat, restarts circulation, and boosts vital energy. On a non-slip yoga mat , the body is fully engaged, the muscles work deeply, and the mind is soothed by the breath in movement. Each session becomes a conscious dance, a free choreography, a meditation in action.
Vinyasa is especially recommended for those who practice sports, dance, or who like to feel their heart racing with awareness. It's a solar, living yoga, deeply rooted in the moment. On your mat, you don't run away from anything—you transform everything through movement.
DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO BREATHE DEEPLY? DISCOVER KUNDALINI YOGA
Summer is sometimes the time when we feel the need to release... something. Trapped emotions, accumulated fatigue, a poorly channeled inner fire. Kundalini Yoga is a powerful, surprising, sometimes confusing, but profoundly transformative style of yoga . It works on the vital energy—prana—by mobilizing breath, postures, mudras (gestures), mantras (sacred sounds), and mental focus in a multidimensional practice.
On your yoga mat , you often start sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, palms facing the sky. You intone the opening mantra “Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo” , a way to connect with your intuition. Then come the kriyas , these dynamic and ritual series that activate specific areas of the body and mind. For example: raising and lowering your arms for 3 minutes while breathing fire; holding a camel pose while chanting a mantra; alternating powerful breaths through the left or right nostril. Kundalini Yoga shakes things up, but gets things flowing. It awakens.
This style of yoga is ideal if you are going through a phase of emotional stagnation, inner fog, or if you need to reconnect with a form of inner vitality that is more intuitive than muscular. It is also valuable for strengthening mental clarity, immunity, and nervous endurance. Even lying on your yoga mat , in the final relaxation, you will feel like a new flow is circulating throughout your system.
To be practiced at sunrise, in the silence of the morning, or at the end of the day to clear out what is weighing you down, Kundalini reminds you that you are energy above all else — and that your breath is the key to all transformations.
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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 mat , you begin with the sun salutations ( Surya Namaskar A & B ), before moving on to the Primary Series : Padangusthasana , Trikonasana , Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana , Navasana , Setu Bandhasana , and up to the final Savasana . Each posture is held for five breaths, each transition is punctuated by the breath (vinyasa).
Ashtanga requires discipline, but in return offers a sense of inner stability and quiet power. It's a yoga of commitment, where you move forward with patience and perseverance. Perfect for structuring your summer, establishing a powerful routine, and replenishing your energy.
Conversely, if you're looking for a freer but equally physical approach, let yourself be carried away by Power Yoga . Inspired by Ashtanga, this modern style of yoga breaks free from fixed series to offer invigorating, creative flows adapted to each person's level. In a Power Yoga sequence, you could combine Plank , Chaturanga , Side Plank , Chair Pose , Revolved Crescent Lunge , Wheel Pose , with more sporty, sometimes cardio, variations. Here, the mat becomes an intense, but always conscious, playground.
These two styles are ideal for those who want to tone their body, work on their posture , strengthen their legs, abs and back, while developing their breathing and mental strength. 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 assumed surpassing.
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MOMENT OF RESPITE, EVEN WHILE TRAVELING? DISCOVER YOGA NIDRA
There are days when you don't have the strength to move, or even to do a sun salutation. Suspended moments where the body demands absolute calm, and the mind space to breathe. Yoga Nidra is a style of yoga apart: a still yoga, lying on your yoga mat , eyes closed, guided by the voice. It is neither meditation nor sleep—but a subtle state between the two, an inner journey to the edge of consciousness.
Lie down in Savasana , arms slightly apart, palms facing the sky. Let yourself be guided by a deep relaxation : body scan, conscious breathing, symbolic visualizations… Each step takes you a little deeper into relaxation. In thirty minutes of Yoga Nidra, the nervous system regenerates, tensions dissolve, energy rebalances. It is a particularly valuable practice in summer, after an active day, a long journey, or even simply to find a gentle anchor in moments of mental fatigue.
This style of yoga is accessible to everyone, regardless of any particular physical condition. It requires nothing more than being there, lying down, available to yourself. And even when traveling, on a travel yoga mat or a simple sheet placed 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 to feel, to welcome, to let go. Because sometimes, resting deeply is the greatest act of transformation.
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There is no one right style of yoga, no one right way to practice. There is your pace, your needs, your breath , and the freedom to explore what feels good. Whether you choose the slowness of Yin, the power of Ashtanga, the fluidity of Vinyasa, or the deep silence of Yoga Nidra, each practice is a gateway to more presence, more light, more you.
And to accompany this inner journey, a yoga mat that suits you can make all the difference. Soft or non-slip, colorful or understated, light or structured... your mat becomes the place where all possibilities are possible . It awaits you, somewhere between earth and sky.
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TINA's Bio
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TINA
1994, Reunion Island & Mauritius, a Life driven by the Indian Ocean and Yoga
Since childhood, this intrepid traveler has traveled the globe, leaving her footprints on beaches around the world.Passionate about surfing, scuba diving and sailing, she has made the oceans 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.
It was through her explorations that yoga became more than a practice for her – it was a way of life.
Between early morning surf sessions and meditative sunsets, she found in yoga a perfect balance of strength, flow 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 adventurer 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.
