Beginner
Yoga with Marycarmen | Seated Spinal Twist | Ardha Matsyendrasana | How to do Seated Twist pose.
Coach's take: Good variations and prop options — genuinely useful teaching.
3.6
Seated spinal twist
Yoga / Popular
Rotate the spine safely from a seated position.
What coaches agree on
- Inhale to lengthen and sit tall through your spine, then use each exhale to twist a little deeper.
- Press your back hand into the floor behind you - it supports an upright spine as you twist.
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Common mistakes
- Forcing the twist from the lower back or cranking the neck ahead of the spine, instead of letting the rotation build from the pelvis through the ribcage with the head turning last.
- Starting from an uneven base, with one sit bone lifted or blocked by the crossed-over foot, which throws off the whole twist.
Beginner
Yoga for Beginners: Seated Spinal Twist Pose
Coach's take: Well-rounded — options, breath cues, and a sensible counter-pose.
3.5
Beginner
Yoga With Susan - Seated Spinal Twist
Coach's take: Nice alignment detail — explains the why behind each cue.
3.5
Beginner
How to Do Ardha Matsyendrasana | Seated Spinal Twist Pose Step-by-Step Tutorial
Coach's take: Finally, a video that explains WHERE your feet and sitting bones go — that's the part every other clip in this batch skips.
3.5
Beginner
Yoga Tutorial: Seated Spinal Twist
Coach's take: This is the one — pelvis stays glued down, twist happens above it. Watch for the hip lifting.
3.5
Beginner
How to Do a Seated Spinal Twist Pose
Coach's take: Clear step-by-step, easy to actually follow along.
3.4
Beginner
Seated Spinal Twist (Ardha Matsyendrasana) - Yoga Pose Guide Tutorial
Coach's take: Excellent, detailed cueing -- the strap makes it doable for most bodies.
3.4
Beginner
Yoga Pose - Seated Half Spinal Twist (Ardha Matsyendrasana)
Coach's take: Decent demo-led teaching with a sensible base-to-bind progression.
3.1
Beginner
Seated Spinal Twist || Posture 11 || Introduction to Yoga
Coach's take: Gets the moves right but doesn't explain much beyond that.
3.0
Beginner
Seated Spinal Twist - CORE Chiropractic Exercises
Coach's take: Tells you the why, not just the how — worth the two minutes.
3.0
Beginner
Yoga for Your Shoulders - Seated Spinal Twist Pose
Coach's take: Solid, honest little tutorial — knows exactly what it's teaching and why.
2.9
Intermediate
Seated Half Spinal Twist | Ardha Matsyendrasana | Yoga Pose
Coach's take: Correct but bare-bones — jumps straight to the full bind with no easier option offered.
2.8
Intermediate
How to do yoga seated spinal twist modifications for back pain relief
Coach's take: The pelvis-shift cue here is the real deal — stop twisting from your lower back.
2.8
Beginner
Seated Spinal Twist - Yoga for Knitters & Crocheters
Coach's take: Good chair-based version with a real modification for beginners.
2.6
Beginner
Rainy Day Yoga - Seated Spinal Twists
Coach's take: Good twist cue buried in a long flow — skip to the twisting parts.
2.6
Beginner
Yoga: How To Do Seated Spinal Twist
Coach's take: Solid cues to move through, but it won't teach you the twist, just walk you through it.
2.4
Advanced
Soma Yoga: Seated Spinal Twist (with eye release) - 30 Minute Practice
Coach's take: Neat advanced angle on the twist, not where a beginner should start.
2.1
Beginner
Yoga for Beginners at Home - Seated Spinal Twist (Parivrtta Sukhasana)
Coach's take: A step up from a plain follow-along — at least it tells you where your hands go and why you're doing it.
2.1
Beginner
Introduction to Yoga, Posture 11: Seated Spinal Twist
Coach's take: Technically fine, but there's nothing here to actually learn from.
2.1
Beginner
Yoga Moment: Seated Spinal Twist
Coach's take: Correct but bare-bones — you'll get the rhythm, not the technique.
1.8
Advanced
Bind In Seated Spinal Twist Practice Tutorial
Coach's take: Smart prep for the eventual bind, but you won't see the twist itself in this clip.
1.6
Beginner
Spinning Seated Spinal Twist - Free Yoga Lesson (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced) | TSS
Coach's take: Good for flowing through if you already know the pose — not where you'd learn it.
1.6
Beginner
Yoga Seated Spinal Twist Pose
Coach's take: Assumes you already know how to sit for this — it never actually sets up the pose.
1.4