Blog Entry 6: Stretching at Work / Yoga at Your Desk

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 videos that will guide your through the stretching session today.

Another video will inform you of the importance of stretching in the workplace.

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I. WARM UP

(6:19 min)

Body Warm-Up

Let us do our isolation warm-up routine as we have done in class:

neck

shoulders

arms

torso

hips

legs

ankles

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II - Alignment

Body Alignment (2:00 min)

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 since you will be recording it as you do it and posting it at the end of the semester.

c) Describe briefly, in writing, how you feel when you are done.

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IV. Video

Importance of Stretching in the Workplace

a) Summarize why is important to stretch in the workplace and how you can apply the same ideas to your life as a student.