Blog Entry 4: Stretching in Corporate America
This
section is for you to continue stretching on your own. The stretching
session has three parts: warm up, alignment and stretching yoga style.
It is an honor system, so I trust you will stretch in order to improve
your mind-body connection, relax and experience peaceful and quiet
happiness in the midst of the challenges we are all facing.
You will watch s video that will introduce you to the practice of mindfulness, a natural result of practicing stretching yoga style.
You will watch s video that will introduce you to the practice of mindfulness, a natural result of practicing stretching yoga style.
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I. WARM UP
Body Warm-Up
Let us do our isolation warm-up routine as we have done in class:
neck
shoulders
arms
torso
hips
legs
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II - Alignment
Close your eyes
Imagine a string pulling you from the top of your head up towards infinite
Elongate of your neck
relax your shoulders
Imagine gravity is pulling you towards the ground, from the bottom of your feet downward
Inhale and on the exhale press your abdomen against your spine
Flatten your back
Tuck in your rib cage
Rotate your shoulder so that the align with your hips
Bring your tailbone slightly forward
Soften your knees
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III. Stretching
(20:18 min)
Standing Yoga Poses
a) Follow the Routine.
b) Try to memorize this routine and the names of the poses in English. You will be recording your routine and posting it at the end of the semester.
Question 1
b) Try to memorize this routine and the names of the poses in English. You will be recording your routine and posting it at the end of the semester.
Question 1
Describe briefly, in writing, the poses that you find most difficult to achieve.
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IV - Video
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IV - Video
Future of Work: Mindfulness as a Leadership Practice
Question 2
After watching the video, write a paragraph
summarizing the main points discussed.
Describe briefly, in writing, the poses that you find most difficult to achieve.
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time with half moon pose. I have a hard time keeping my balance in this asana. I also have a difficulty achieving tree pose. I believe I have an issue with both of these because of my balance ability.
After watching the video, write a paragraph summarizing the main points discussed.
In this video a business professor spoke about how he brought mindfulness and meditation to his curriculum. He noted that most of his business students even through a variety of age groups were pretty open minded to learning meditation methods and mindfulness. He said that their lives could involve fundamental suffering with routine and that the mindfulness an added meditation could relieve a lot of stress. He also mentions that mindfulness can bring up dreams deferred or put off passions can resurface but people tend to be unaware of if they have unfulfilled desires. He also mentioned a metaphorical mask or persona that we as humans put on to portray a certain positive perception of ourselves. Overall, the message was mindfulness is important and if it is not taken seriously and practiced it can negatively affect our lives.