Sun Salutations
1.
Starting in Mountain pose, with your feet slightly apart, palms together, thumbs against your chest.
2.
Inhale deeply while slowly raising your hands over your head, and bend back as far as possible, while tightening your buttocks.
Hold for three seconds.
3.
Exhale and bend forward, keeping your back straight, until your fingers touch the floor outside your feet.
(If you can't touch the floor, go as close as you can.
) Relaxing your head in toward your knees in forward fold.
4.
Inhale, bend your knees, and if your fingertips aren't outside your feet on the floor, place them there.
Slide your right foot back into a lunge position.
Extending arms above your head, looking up as high as possible, arching your back in Crescent lunge.
5.
Exhaling again, slide your left foot back until it is beside the right one, Lifting the hips and with your weight supported on your fingers and toes, in downward facing dog 6.
On the inhale, Extending the head and chest out over the hands for plank position.
7.
Exhaling, lower the body into a hover with elbows tucked to the sides of the body for crocodile.
8.
Inhaling and pressing into the hands lifting through the crown of the head for upward facing dog.
9.
Exhaling and lifting the hips for downward facing dog, placing the weight of the body into the fingers and the toes.
10.
Inhaling, slide your left foot forward into a lunge position.
Extending arms above your head, looking up as high as possible, arching your back in Crescent lunge.
11.
Exhaling, slide your right foot forward until it is beside the left one, lifting the hips for forward fold.
12.
Inhaling, sweeping the hands wide, lifting the body with a flat back and exhaling hands to the chest with palms together.
Repeat the series as many times as wanted.
Focusing on the breath, allows our mind and heart to relax and de-stress.
In yoga, we don't move without breathing or breathe without moving.
The breathing technique most often used is called diaphragmic breathing.
It is a very deep breathing technique that allows us to calm our mind and body and allow us to balance better and get deeper into the stretch.
75% of the toxins in our body are excreted through the lungs so shallow type breathing keeps toxins in our lungs never fully cleaning them from the body.
So get moving, keep breathing and be healthy!
Starting in Mountain pose, with your feet slightly apart, palms together, thumbs against your chest.
2.
Inhale deeply while slowly raising your hands over your head, and bend back as far as possible, while tightening your buttocks.
Hold for three seconds.
3.
Exhale and bend forward, keeping your back straight, until your fingers touch the floor outside your feet.
(If you can't touch the floor, go as close as you can.
) Relaxing your head in toward your knees in forward fold.
4.
Inhale, bend your knees, and if your fingertips aren't outside your feet on the floor, place them there.
Slide your right foot back into a lunge position.
Extending arms above your head, looking up as high as possible, arching your back in Crescent lunge.
5.
Exhaling again, slide your left foot back until it is beside the right one, Lifting the hips and with your weight supported on your fingers and toes, in downward facing dog 6.
On the inhale, Extending the head and chest out over the hands for plank position.
7.
Exhaling, lower the body into a hover with elbows tucked to the sides of the body for crocodile.
8.
Inhaling and pressing into the hands lifting through the crown of the head for upward facing dog.
9.
Exhaling and lifting the hips for downward facing dog, placing the weight of the body into the fingers and the toes.
10.
Inhaling, slide your left foot forward into a lunge position.
Extending arms above your head, looking up as high as possible, arching your back in Crescent lunge.
11.
Exhaling, slide your right foot forward until it is beside the left one, lifting the hips for forward fold.
12.
Inhaling, sweeping the hands wide, lifting the body with a flat back and exhaling hands to the chest with palms together.
Repeat the series as many times as wanted.
Focusing on the breath, allows our mind and heart to relax and de-stress.
In yoga, we don't move without breathing or breathe without moving.
The breathing technique most often used is called diaphragmic breathing.
It is a very deep breathing technique that allows us to calm our mind and body and allow us to balance better and get deeper into the stretch.
75% of the toxins in our body are excreted through the lungs so shallow type breathing keeps toxins in our lungs never fully cleaning them from the body.
So get moving, keep breathing and be healthy!
