The Body You Want, The Yoga Poses You Need

Maximize your energy with these 20 tips to boost your power, strength and endurance

You're busy. We get it. But you still want every benefit possible from the time you spend in practice--power, strength, energy, and endurance--without spending hours on the mat. To help, we've asked four top yoga experts to choose their favorite yoga poses for boosting energy to create the ultimate yoga workout. It's a virtual yoga buffet where you can fill up on all your favorite yoga poses in one stop, and still have a little time to tackle the rest of your life.

In this series, we've pulled over 20 yoga poses from ashtanga (better than a Hollywood weight trainer), vinyasa (the Ironman of yoga), kundalini (could be called ginseng yoga), and power yoga (equal to power lifting), pick the ones you need for your workout goals, boost energy, and get started on the body you want.

STYLE: Kundalini, or the science of breath and angles, teaches practitioners to avoid traditional static posing. Kundalini awakens cosmic energy believed to be dormant in all of us.
EXPERT: Anna Getty, an instructor at Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles, is the creator of a DVD series including The Divine Mother Prenatal Yoga.

Hold each pose for up to 20 minutes. The extended length and movement in each pose will build and sustain energetic highs. Keep eyes closed when you practice these poses.  Get psyched up for a practice by chanting "Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo" (ong nah mo goo roo dayv nah mo)--“I bow to the creative wisdom in myself"--three times.

Spinal Flex/Camel Ride

Sit with legs crossed, holding onto calves or shins. Inhale and lift chest forward and up. Inhale and exhale as you round spine, chin to chest. Start slowly and increase pace steadily. Continue for three minutes. This movement releases blocked energy in the spine.