How Yoga Helps Stress

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Battling a Cold With Yoga
Swell yoga moves to beat the blues. This vinyasa
can be interspersed within your practice or be a
stand alone energy pick up. Challenge yourself,
get the heart pumping more, and put a spring in
your step. If you have sore joints - hips, knees,
ankles - step rather than jump, step and hold
poses longer rather than creating a vinyasa. And
if you have heart problems keep arms shoulder
height.Attitude is always of primary importance
in your practice. When you center in the first
pose, Tadasana, with hands in prayer position at
the heart, notice what's motivating the practice.
Close your eyes, if you wish, and release tension
from the shoulders in your favorite way. Feel the
sensations in the back of the body and shoulders.
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Battling a Cold With Yoga
The swell yoga moves consists of a shooting Star,
stabilizing Chair, and tall Mountain. Let's
visualize these moves before practicing them. See
the Mountain grow tall as you inhale and
gracefully raise your Namaste hands from the
heart to reach for the twinkling star overhead.
Invite that star to join you as you move fingers
apart while keeping the base of the palms, sides
of thumbs and little fingers together forming the
lotus mudra. Tone or chant here, if you like,
then close fingers gently around that sparkling
star when it arrives, thanking the star for
coming and showering you with bright light. Of
course you can create your own visualization and
play even more.
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Battling a Cold With Yoga
Now are you ready to create fireworks? Breathe in
drawing the hands with star to your heart and as
you exhale bend the knees moving them behind the
toes taking the hips behind the heels into
stabilizing Chair pose, Utkatanasana. Then inhale
and on the exhale jump or step wide into five
pointed star pose with feet facing forward and
arms outstretched shoulder height palms facing
down. Breathe fully using ujjayi breathing
technique if you know it. Feel and/or imagine or
visualize your whole body as light with sparkles
of shooting stars at or leaving your finger tips.
Stay and embody the star for as long as you
wish.When you are ready jump or step back into
the stabilizing Chair pose with arms raised
overhead if you like.
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Battling a Cold With Yoga
Stay here allowing energy to build for a few
breaths, then straighten your knees and become a
tall Mountain.So catch a falling star, become a
shooting Star and come back to reality or not in
Yoga Burn Review your Chair and tall
Mountain.Anatomy is such an important part of
hatha yoga instructor training. As you learn in
Yoga teacher training, the neck is the most
fragile part of the spine. The neck supports the
weight of the head during the hours we are awake.
When you consider our skeletal structure, it's a
wonder that many of us are lucky enough to have
pain free days. Luckily, you have learned enough
about Yoga to help others have many more pain
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