Yoga With Zain

Throwback to my last in person workshop two years ago today! I had just finished a weekend with this one wonderful group of students in Málaga, Spain. I think the virus outbreak had just started in Madrid and a few days after this photo was taken Málaga went into lockdown and studios and public space were shut. I was on my way to Wrocław, Poland for the next workshops. Only to arrive there and leave in 24 hours back to USA, and cancel my remaining workshops in Prague and Gran Canaria. I didn’t imagine this would be the last time I would teach in person workshops and transition into online Zoom yoga classes. I don’t think anyone could’ve known what was coming. What a long strange trip it’s been! And here we are. 🌀 Soon I’ll announce my very first in person workshop coming at the start of April! 🙌 Thank you dear @alejandraestradayoga for this nostalgic pre-pandemic memory and organizing such a fun time in Málaga. And with friends @cembalo @capitanyogi @callateyhazyoga I miss you all❣️ ———————————————————————— #throwbackthursday #prepandemic #yogaworkshop #precovidmemories #inpersonyoga #yogizain #yogizaintravels #malagaspain #andalusia #tbt (at Málaga, España) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca8_7tLoTJn/?utm_medium=tumblr

🤸‍♂️ Join me on Sundays for a fun one hour Vinyasa level 1-2 practice via @yoga_international and in collab w/ @omstarsofficial! ⁣ ⁣ 🙋🏽‍♂️I’ll host this time slot all through December and the first Sunday of 2022 (January 2nd).⁣ ⁣ 🕰 9:30AM (PST) • 12:30PM (EST)⁣ ⁣ ⏯ Class replay available if you can’t attend live. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Links in my bio to join 🧘🏽‍♂️ See you on the mat! ⁣ ⁣ #yogainternational #omstars #vinyasa #vinyasaclass #vinyasaonline #onlineyoga #onlinevinyasa #zoomyogaclasses #yogaathome #yogaanywhere #yogizain #chaturangadandasana #chaturanga #urdhvamukhasvanasana #upwarddog #yogaclassesonline ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXXCppVvLYE/?utm_medium=tumblr

👋 Happy Wednesday! I had fun last week with the IG Live chat last week. I appreciated all of you that tuned in and messaged me with your positive response. ⁣ ⁣ 🗣 So I would like to have another live chat! Tomorrow: DECEMBER 9. This time I invite you to time travel with me as I share stories, tell tales, and reminisce all the wonderful memories I made during my world travels from December 2017 to March 2020. ⁣ ⁣ ⌛️I’m not even sure if there will be enough time to get through it all…But I intend to share about how it all started, where I went to visit, and all the wonderful hosts who invited me to teach workshops in their local communities.⁣ ⁣ 🕰 Thursday, December 9 @ 12pm PST ⁣ ⁣ ✨ Looking forward to sharing my travel journey and wanderlust memories. ⁣ ⁣ ….and here are all the places I was fortunate enough to visit in that time: ⁣ ⁣ 🇧🇷🇮🇩🇨🇬🇫🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪🇵🇱🇺🇦🇭🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿 🇨🇦🇨🇷🇵🇦🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇺🇾🇦🇷🇨🇱🇹🇭🇨🇳⁣ ⁣ ☕️ So grab your coffee or chai and join me for a live IG chat tomorrow! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣#iglive #yogizaintravels #wanderlust #yogatravels #travellingteacher #sirsasana #headstand #eiffeltower #instalive #prepandmic #travelmemories https://www.instagram.com/p/CXPC4X5vvcI/?utm_medium=tumblr

🤸‍♂️ Happy December! Join me on Sundays for a fun Vinyasa level 1-2 practice via @yoga_international and in collab with @omstarsofficial! ⁣ ⁣ 🙋🏽‍♂️I’ll host this time slot all through December and the first Sunday of 2022 (January 2nd).⁣ ⁣ 🕰 9:30AM (PST) • 12:30PM (EST)⁣ ⁣ ⏯ Class replay available if you can’t attend live. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Links in my bio to join. 🧘🏽‍♂️ See you on the mat! ⁣ ⁣ #yogainternational #omstars #vinyasa #vinyasaclass #vinyasaonline #onlineyoga #onlinevinyasa #zoomyogaclasses #yogaathome #yogaanywhere #yogizain #chaturangadandasana #chaturanga #urdhvamukhasvanasana #upwarddog #yogaclassesonline ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/yogizain/p/CXFuudCsh_v/?utm_medium=tumblr

👋 Good morning and happy Monday! ⁣ ⁣ 🗣 Join me me tomorrow Tuesday, Nov 30th for an Instagram Live chat. Time to catch up on this year, and I would like to share some fun and interesting contemplations I’ve been thinking about during my down time resting and recovering the past couple of weeks ⁣ ⁣ 🤓 I intended to do an AMA (ask me anything) for the first time after the handstand challenge month, but then that was put off due to the hospital visit for my head hemorrhage situation. So there will be some time for questions and answers with me. Leading up to that part, I will openly share my views on the following topics:⁣ ⁣ 🧑‍⚕️ What the doctors informed me regarding my unexpected visit to the ICU and causes unexplained. It was unrelated to anything diet, movement, inversions, vaccine side effects, etc. A mystery! and such is life. ⁣ ⁣ 💉 My fascinations with vaccinations. Do you know how many jabs I’ve gotten in my life? Heck if actually know! I’ve lost count. But I’ll start by sharing about that one time I received 5 vaccines in one day before getting ready for my trip to Congo, Africa. Good times!⁣ ⁣ 🧘🏽‍♂️ I’m not “Yogi Zain” I’m Zain Syed. How did I pick this username for social media and brand it to promote my teacher profile? I’ll chat a little bit about self marketing on social media. ⁣ ⁣ 🙏🏾 My love for Iyengar Yoga practice and departure from Iyengar Yoga certification. One of the best decisions I made this year. Why and how so? Tune in to hear me out. ⁣ ⁣ 🎶 My love for music—old, new, rare, pop, underground, mainstream, instrumental, lyrical, danceable, experimental, analog, electronic and everything in between. And why I choose to teach without music in any classes. ⁣ ⁣ 🌎 And last but not least (click bait here), i believe the earth is flat!! prove me wrong. what?! You don’t wanna miss this. 😜⁣ ⁣ 🤹🏽 This IG live will be shard with good intention and humor. It’s all becomes comical to me at some point. And that’s I’ve coped with this tragic comedy of news and noise of the pandemic times.⁣ ⁣ 📲 Going live tomorrow Nov 30 @ 12pm (pacific standard time). ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CW3u2SUPsHQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

👋 Hello everyone,⁣ ⁣ ♥️ I want to thank all of you who have kept me in your thoughts and prayers during this unexpected medical emergency I recently experienced. I am overwhelmed with gratitude from the love and support I have received in so many comments and messages here. I’ll do my best to reply back soon. Just operating a little slowly during my recovery time. ⁣ ⁣ 🗣 In the meantime, I want to clarify a few things for record:⁣ ⁣ ✔️ I did not have a stroke⁣ ✔️ I did not have an aneurysm ⁣ ✔️ I am fortunate for the local medical supervision I received and things didn’t turn out worse. ⁣ ✔️ The docs emphasized this was unusual to happen to me, and the cause was of it unexplained. ⁣ ⁣ 🤷‍♂️ A odd mystery! Such is life. ⁣ ⁣ ✖️ I asked the doctors if should change anything in my lifestyle: plant-based diet, daily coffee intake, inversion practice, too much movement, not enough sleep, etc. The list goes on. And they kept responding NO. It is not correlated to any of that’s at all. ⁣ ⁣ ✖️ Definitely not related to any vaccine side-effect. Speaking of which, time to sign up for the booster jab asap!⁣ ⁣ 💌 I hold utmost gratitude for my family: mom, dad, sister and brother-in-law. All of them are medical doctors and have taken such good care of me since leaving the ICU. From what I understand, there was a chance things could’ve taken a worse turn. And possibly more life threatening with a lower recovery rate.⁣ ⁣ 🙏🏾 Thank goodness for professional medical doctors. I whole heartedly trust their unique specialties and practice. Science doesn’t have to be pretty to be pretty awesome.⁣ ⁣ ✍️ Amazing cosmic illustration by artist and Iyengar Yoga teacher @svenjakarstens. Highly recommend to follow her! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #gratitude #gratefultobealive #countingmyblessings ⁣#cosmiclove ⁣ ⁣ (at Cosmic Ocean) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnD4I1L9-8/?utm_medium=tumblr

🗣 I’m teaching no live classes this week. ⁣ ⁣ 🏥 I had an unexpected visit to a hospital emergency room and then spent several days in ICU (intensive care unit).⁣ ⁣ 🩸I suffered from a subarachnoid hemorrhage. In simple terms, it was bleeding in the space between my brain and the surrounding membrane (subarachnoid space). The primary symptom is a sudden, severe headache. I’m still nursing the heavy migraines and body aches this week and hoping it will all resolve soon. ⁣ ⁣ 🧑‍⚕️ The cause: unexplained. I had just woken up from a midday nap feeling very nauseous and needing to vomit. Then my parents immediately took me to the hospital.⁣ ⁣ ❤️‍🩹 I’m doing much better now. Hoping to be good to teach my weekend classes. ⁣ ⁣ 📺 I have a playlist of my Handstand Jam classes on my YouTube channel. If you would like access to these classes, send me a message or email and I’ll share the playlist link with you. ⁣ ⁣ 🙏🏾 Much love and take good care! Life is very short and unexpected. ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CWaIoY6r-s8/?utm_medium=tumblr

⏯ A series of wrist mobility drills, hand prep, plus shoulder and arm movements. ⁣ ⁣ 1️⃣ “Magnetic Wrists” I learned from @mikefitch.af at the Animal Flow training weekend. A meditative way to start connecting with the hands. ⁣ ⁣ 2️⃣ Shoulder circles. Scapula CAR (controlled articular rotation). A nice way to oil up the shoulder blades! This and the following ones are from FRC. ⁣ ⁣ 3️⃣ Wrist rotation. Block forearm from turning. Express slow, smooth, controlled articulation of wrist joint. This one never gets old, and always remains tough to do. ⁣ ⁣ 4️⃣ Fist/ Wrist circles. @jessica teaches this one a lot in her classes. and I’ve been hooked since day one.⁣ ⁣ 5️⃣ Full arm ROM (range of motion) with axial rotation at the shoulder joint. As the arm makes the arch resist chest turning or ribs lifting. This one is like a daily vitamin and a game changer for my asana practice. ⁣ ⁣ 6️⃣ Hand lifts and wrists circles on the grounds. Nice way to expose force in different angles for the hands. ⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Music my Tony Allen “The Seed”⁣ ⁣ ——————————————————————————⁣ ⁣ 🤸🏽‍♂️All this and more as a preview of the fun and interesting movements I like to explore with you at HANDSTAND JAM, me weekly 1-hour class dedicated to handstand practice. ⁣ ⁣ ⌚️Come join on Thursdays @ 11AM (PST) ⁣ ⁣ ♾ Open to all levels ⁣ ⁣ 💌 Recording available if you cannot attend live.⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Zoom link and payment info in my bio ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ——————————————————————————⁣ #wristmobility #wristdrills #handstandpractice #handmobility #wristrotation #scapularmobility #shouldercircles #functionalrangeconditioning #kinstretch #controlledarticularrotations #glenohumeraljoint #armrotation #handstandprep #handstandlove #handstandnation https://www.instagram.com/p/CWG_encv3l8/?utm_medium=tumblr

UPDATE! Sunday morning Vinyasa level 1/2 class time is now at 9:30AM (PT) • 12:30PM (ET), and in collaboration with @omstarsofficial!✨ ⁣ ⁣ Students attending the live classes will have the option to show themselves in the Zoom room 🤗 Let’s MoveTogether: Live! Link in my bio to join. ⁣ ⁣ #Repost @omstarsofficial with @make_repost⁣ ・・・⁣ It's Friday! Are you looking forward to the weekend? 💫 Swipe for the full schedule of our live classes! Save your spot through our link in bio 🙏⁣ ⁣ ——————————————————————-⁣ #omstarofficial #yogainternational #yogizain #movetogetherlive #vinyasaonline #vinyasaflow #onlinevinyasa #omstarsyoga #zoomyoga #yogazoom #yogaanywhere ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CV5s5BSv6pK/?utm_medium=tumblr

🕸 Things are startin’ to get a lil bit spooky around here, wouldn’t ya say?😱⁣ ⁣ 🙌 Taking handstand to new heights I call this one “blocked energy” 😂 ⁣ ⁣ ⏳ 7 more days to go for #HandstandChallenge2021… one more week until Halloween! 🎃⁣ ⁣ 🤸‍♂️ Who is continuing with their daily handstand practice for this month? Lemme know in the comments. 👻⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Music by @rossfromfriends “The Daisy” (one of my new fave albums of this year!) 🎶⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ————————————————————-⁣ ⁣ #handstandchallenge #handstandonblocks #handstandpractice #handstandvariation #spookyhandstand #halloweenhandstand #adhomukhavrksasana #yogizain #handstandlover ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CVcOdVJrq2C/?utm_medium=tumblr

I had a great quick visit to the Bay Area! Feeling refreshed and recharged after a wonderful hike in Muir Woods. Grateful for the beautiful redwoods of California. 🌲 ⁣ ⁣ Alright, so who wants to practice some fun backbending with me today? MONDAY JULY 19 - all are welcome to join right here on Facebook live. Streaming class at 12PM (California time).⁣ ⁣ Link in bio. Let’s go! 🙌⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #muirwoods #muirwoodsyoga #urdhvadhanurasana #upwardbowpose #ūrdhvadhanurāsana #wheelpose #backextension #spinalextension #yogainthewoods #yogaonline #facebookliveyoga #fblive #freeyogaclass #onlineyogaclass #yogizain #backbendingpractice #redwoods #millvalley #bayarea (at Muir Woods National Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhBrL5o9oi/?utm_medium=tumblr

📣 Free class! Join me on Mon, May 3 via @yoga_international’s Facebook live. Streaming live at 12pm California 3pm New York ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #asianamerican #southasian #asianamericanheritagemonth #yogainternational #yogizain #parsvabakasana #sidecrow #facebooklive #yogaonline #onlineyoga #fbliveyoga https://www.instagram.com/p/COUK3VLMCPq/?igshid=klzk4ry05qa5

📣 I’m excited to be a guest teacher at Yoga Kraftwerk in Germany! This coming Friday, April 23, join me for a dynamic and playful backbend practice. ⁣ ⁣ 🇩🇪 6:30pm in Germany ⁣ ⁣ 🇺🇸 12:30pm New York ⁣ ⁣ 🤸🏾‍♂️ Open to all levels⁣ ⁣ ⏱ 75 minute practice ⁣ ⁣ 🗣 Class in English⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Link in bio to sign up ⁣ ⁣ 🌐 www.yogakraftwerk.de⁣ ⁣ 💌 @nici_tannert_yogakraftwerk ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #backbendpractice #backbendclass #yogabackbends #yogaonline #onlineyogateacher #yogakraftwerk #yogizain #ustrasana #camelposevariation #yogaingermany #zoomyoga #yogaanywhere (at YogaKraftwerk) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN2Vr0AMIbv/?igshid=1ejgf4m7o572t

📢 Join me for a fun and challenging chair yoga practice today at 5:30pm (ET) via @yoga_international. Using one of my fave props we’ll explore creative ways to move in and out of poses. There will be something of interest for everyone from beginner to intermediate level. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Link in my bio to register. Classes are recorded for replay.⁣ ⁣ 📸 Video throwback @namastdayyoga ⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Music by @spacejesus “HMU”⁣ ⁣ #chairyoga #chairyogaflow #yogawithchair #ekahastabhujasana #dwihastabhujasana #bhujapidasana #armbalancesequence #armbalancepractice #namastdayyoga #yogizain #yogainternational #movetogetherlive #yogaonline #onlineyoga #zoomyoga #yogaanywhere ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CNAP3KqMue9/?igshid=1uf5i567jxeq7

☄️ Monday motivation let’s go! Join me today at 5:30pm (ET) for a fun handstand practice via @yoga_international MoveTogether: Live series. ⁣ ⁣ 🙌 We’ll explore plentiful prep work for wrists and shoulders plus different ways to build strength and stamina for balancing in handstands. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Link in my bio to sign up for a 30-day trial ⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Music by @sango_ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #handstandpractice #handstandclass #adhomukhavrksasana #armbalances #handstandprep #wristsandshoulders #yogaclass #yogizain #yogainternational #yogaonline #zoomyoga #onlineyoga #yogaanywhere https://www.instagram.com/p/CMulWwsMqps/?igshid=ax6geuh3yoes

📢 Mondays in March with @yoga_international 5:30pm (eastern time). ⁣ ⁣ 🤸🏾‍♂️ Join me for a series of classes featuring a dynamic blend of power, precision and play❣️ This week we’ll practice fun back bends to uplift our spirits 🙌. ⁣ ⁣ 🔗 Link my my bio to register for a 30-day trial. ⁣ ⁣ 🎧 Music by @ruckp “Vibin’ Out”⁣ ⁣ 📲 www.zain.yoga⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #backbendpractice #backbending #ustrasana #camelpose #ustrasanavariation #carrieowerkoinspired #laghuvajrasana #littlethunderboltpose #yogapractice #playfulpractice #joyfulmovement #yogateacher #yogizain #yogainternational #yogaanywhere #onlineyoga #yogaonline #zoomyogaclasses ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMbU7_-sR4k/?igshid=ry547t611ro6

I’m back on IG! 🤗 Happy to start a 5-week series via @yoga_international on Mondays 5:30pm (ET). First class today March 1st 🤸🏾‍♂️Join me! Link in bio for a 30-day trial. Hope to see you❣️⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #yogainternational #movetogetherlive #yogaonline #onlineyoga #zoomyoga #yogaclassesonline #virtualyoga #yogaonzoom #yogapractice #yogateacher #yogizain #instayogi #instayogafam #instayogacommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4sZ_vMWfP/?igshid=1jjg823b8fpcq