Blog Entry 7: Your Very Own Routine

This section is for you to own your stretching practice by putting together the main asanas of your own routine:

1) mountain pose, 2) tree pose, 3) upper salute, 4) standing forward bend, 5) downward facing dog, 6) extended triangle pose, 7) warrior II pose, 8) extended side angle pose, 9) warrior pose I, 10) half moon pose, 11) intense side stretch pose, 12) wide legged standing forward bend, 13) child's pose, 14) corpse pose,
 
As always, your stretching session has three parts: warm up, alignment and 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

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. Stretch

 

(20:18 min)

Standing Yoga Poses

a) Review the Routine.
b) Perform your own routine, record it and post it on our blackboard's discussion.

c) Describe briefly, in writing, how this experience, this semester, despite the interruption, has affected your ability to self-regulate stress and anxiety.

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