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Eight Minute Basic Home Practice |
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Eight Minute Basic Home Practice Script
Mountain Pose
Stand with your feet parallel, joints stacked, and natural curves in the spine.
Place your right hand to the belly, and the left hand to the chest.
Deepen your breath, take 5 slow Three-part Yogic Breaths.
Crescent Moon Pose
Stay in Mountain Pose, reach arms overhead side stretch to the side, by leaning to the right, hold for 3 breaths, switch sides.
Standing Forward Bend Pose
Hinge forward from the hip crease, bend your knees deeply until your fingertips touch the floor, lift chest away from legs, in a mini lift, keep left fingers to the floor, twist upper body right, hand to hip or arm extended, hold for 3 breaths, switch sides.
Lower to hands and knees, to a table top position.
Cat Pose and Cow Pose
Inhale, arch the spine into Cow Pose, exhale, dome the spine into Cat Pose, do for 5 breaths.
Lower all the way to floor.
Cobra Pose
Place your hands under your shoulders, hug elbows in and back, press the tops of feet to floor with legs active, lift the upper body, light weight in hands, shoulders down away from ears, hold for 5 breaths.
Child's Pose
Push up and back to hands and knees, then bring big toes together, with straight ankles, knees together or apart, push hips towards heels and lower torso. Rest the forehead to the floor, hands, or a pillow or block, rest for 5 breaths.
Slowly lift up to seated and slowly lower onto your back body.
Reclined twist
Knees bent with feet to the floor. Open arms to a T, shift hips several inches to the left, fold the knees into a 90 degree angle, and release them to the right side, hold for 5 breaths, switch sides.
Corpse Pose (Savasana)
Rest in relaxation for at least 5 breaths.
Come out mindfully and slowly.
Namaste
Moving your spine in all directions daily helps you to maintain a healthy range of motion in your body. If you need help with alignment please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mountain Pose
Stand with your feet parallel, joints stacked, and natural curves in the spine.
Place your right hand to the belly, and the left hand to the chest.
Deepen your breath, take 5 slow Three-part Yogic Breaths.
Crescent Moon Pose
Stay in Mountain Pose, reach arms overhead side stretch to the side, by leaning to the right, hold for 3 breaths, switch sides.
Standing Forward Bend Pose
Hinge forward from the hip crease, bend your knees deeply until your fingertips touch the floor, lift chest away from legs, in a mini lift, keep left fingers to the floor, twist upper body right, hand to hip or arm extended, hold for 3 breaths, switch sides.
Lower to hands and knees, to a table top position.
Cat Pose and Cow Pose
Inhale, arch the spine into Cow Pose, exhale, dome the spine into Cat Pose, do for 5 breaths.
Lower all the way to floor.
Cobra Pose
Place your hands under your shoulders, hug elbows in and back, press the tops of feet to floor with legs active, lift the upper body, light weight in hands, shoulders down away from ears, hold for 5 breaths.
Child's Pose
Push up and back to hands and knees, then bring big toes together, with straight ankles, knees together or apart, push hips towards heels and lower torso. Rest the forehead to the floor, hands, or a pillow or block, rest for 5 breaths.
Slowly lift up to seated and slowly lower onto your back body.
Reclined twist
Knees bent with feet to the floor. Open arms to a T, shift hips several inches to the left, fold the knees into a 90 degree angle, and release them to the right side, hold for 5 breaths, switch sides.
Corpse Pose (Savasana)
Rest in relaxation for at least 5 breaths.
Come out mindfully and slowly.
Namaste
Moving your spine in all directions daily helps you to maintain a healthy range of motion in your body. If you need help with alignment please do not hesitate to contact me.
Why We Chant OM In My Classes
OM is a sacred sound. It is the symbol for the sound of creation which never ceases. In it's vibrations everything is contained.
Chanting OM starts out as a means, or a way, for you to begin your mind, body, spirit focus and connection - When you temporarily let go of your day, and give yourself permission to BE. To simply BE for the whole class.
In time, with increased interest and dedication to your practice, you begin to connect to the subtle energy in your body during your yoga practice. Often the association of what follows the sound OM and the way you feel after a practice is so deep that just chanting the sound of OM can have the same mental effects that you get from your physical yoga practice.
You basically develop a Pavlov Effect to the word, and once you chant it, you start to relax, and your whole body starts to let go. You may even feel physical sensation in your hands, your third eye, or elsewhere in your body. Now, you have the awareness to begin and end your class in a state of bliss.
As a teacher I love creating bridges that help build that inner connection.
OM,
Colleen
Great article on OM, by Rober Gabriel (Raghavanand)
OM is a sacred sound. It is the symbol for the sound of creation which never ceases. In it's vibrations everything is contained.
Chanting OM starts out as a means, or a way, for you to begin your mind, body, spirit focus and connection - When you temporarily let go of your day, and give yourself permission to BE. To simply BE for the whole class.
In time, with increased interest and dedication to your practice, you begin to connect to the subtle energy in your body during your yoga practice. Often the association of what follows the sound OM and the way you feel after a practice is so deep that just chanting the sound of OM can have the same mental effects that you get from your physical yoga practice.
You basically develop a Pavlov Effect to the word, and once you chant it, you start to relax, and your whole body starts to let go. You may even feel physical sensation in your hands, your third eye, or elsewhere in your body. Now, you have the awareness to begin and end your class in a state of bliss.
As a teacher I love creating bridges that help build that inner connection.
OM,
Colleen
Great article on OM, by Rober Gabriel (Raghavanand)
