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Yoga Practice Ideas 1: More Inversions; Vinyasa on One Leg
Practice Ideas: More Inversions; Vinyasa on One Leg with Crescent Lunge, Standing Split and Side Plank
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Disclaimer: I am not a yoga instructor. I don't know anything about exercise safety or fitness instruction. I'm not even an advanced practitioner of yoga. But I have come to love yoga and am completely self taught.
You know your own body best, so please respect your known health conditions and use the variations offered by instructors that are best for you. Remember to balance where you are now with where you could be in the future. There is no perfect pose.
More Inversions
For everybody who is working on Plow and Shoulderstand, I stumbled upon Shiva Rea's Inversions from Yoga Shakti on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBffP8trBs8. Did I mention this before?
Vinyasa on One Leg with Crescent Lunge, Standing Split and Side Plank
So are you bored to death with the Surya A up-down vinyasa? For a fun strength move, try this. (With a couple of standing poses and an arm balance thrown in the middle.) This is one of my favorite segments from any of my DVDs – it's a piece of MTV Power Yoga. The instructor is Kristin McGee.
From Down Dog, lift the right leg to the sky for Dog Split.
Leave the right leg raised, and flow into Plank, then Chaturanga.
If you can, keep the leg lifted as you press upward into Upward Dog, or lower the leg, if that's more appropriate for you.
With the leg still raised (or raising the leg again), press back into Downward Dog Split.
Bring the right leg forward into a lunge. Place your right hand on the floor and step into Crescent Moon. Also at Yoga Journal: Crescent Moon at Yoga Journal. Hold for three to five breaths.
Bring both hands to the floor and raise your back leg to Standing Split.
You can try a vinyasa with the Standing Split, lowering the back leg and bending both knees, as if you were going to sit on the floor in Easy Pose, then bursting open again, straightening the lower leg and raising the back leg to the sky again. Inhale, coil as if to sit, exhale, burst open. Try that three times, or just breathe the split three to five breaths.
Drop your leg back down to a lunge, return to Down Dog.
Move forward again into plank.
Rock to the outside of your right foot and your right palm for Side Plank. Hold for three to five breaths.
Drop your hand and return to Plank, then Down Dog.
Repeat on your left side.
You Tube Help:
Crescent Moon at eternityyoga.
Crescent Moon with Sadie Nardini.
Crescent Moon with CorePower..
Side Plank with Laura Schneider, who shows a couple of beginner variations.
Side Plank with Christine Navarro.
Alas, I could not find a decent YouTube of a standing split. How odd.
Namaste.
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sun_salutation.Disclaimer: I am not a yoga instructor. I don't know anything about exercise safety or fitness instruction. I'm not even an advanced practitioner of yoga. But I have come to love yoga and am completely self taught.
You know your own body best, so please respect your known health conditions and use the variations offered by instructors that are best for you. Remember to balance where you are now with where you could be in the future. There is no perfect pose.
More Inversions
For everybody who is working on Plow and Shoulderstand, I stumbled upon Shiva Rea's Inversions from Yoga Shakti on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBffP8trBs8. Did I mention this before?
Vinyasa on One Leg with Crescent Lunge, Standing Split and Side Plank
So are you bored to death with the Surya A up-down vinyasa? For a fun strength move, try this. (With a couple of standing poses and an arm balance thrown in the middle.) This is one of my favorite segments from any of my DVDs – it's a piece of MTV Power Yoga. The instructor is Kristin McGee.
From Down Dog, lift the right leg to the sky for Dog Split.
Leave the right leg raised, and flow into Plank, then Chaturanga.
If you can, keep the leg lifted as you press upward into Upward Dog, or lower the leg, if that's more appropriate for you.
With the leg still raised (or raising the leg again), press back into Downward Dog Split.
Bring the right leg forward into a lunge. Place your right hand on the floor and step into Crescent Moon. Also at Yoga Journal: Crescent Moon at Yoga Journal. Hold for three to five breaths.
Bring both hands to the floor and raise your back leg to Standing Split.
You can try a vinyasa with the Standing Split, lowering the back leg and bending both knees, as if you were going to sit on the floor in Easy Pose, then bursting open again, straightening the lower leg and raising the back leg to the sky again. Inhale, coil as if to sit, exhale, burst open. Try that three times, or just breathe the split three to five breaths.
Drop your leg back down to a lunge, return to Down Dog.
Move forward again into plank.
Rock to the outside of your right foot and your right palm for Side Plank. Hold for three to five breaths.
Drop your hand and return to Plank, then Down Dog.
Repeat on your left side.
You Tube Help:
Crescent Moon at eternityyoga.
Crescent Moon with Sadie Nardini.
Crescent Moon with CorePower..
Side Plank with Laura Schneider, who shows a couple of beginner variations.
Side Plank with Christine Navarro.
Alas, I could not find a decent YouTube of a standing split. How odd.
Namaste.
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or are you srsly thinking I am gonna try asanaheaponthefloor???
the cherry blossoms were lovely! I got sunscreen in my eye and spent most of our trek about the basin with one stinging, weeping, reddened eyeball behind (thank god) sunglasses
ETA I swear to you, my blurry eyes just thought you said "rub the left side" above there!
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Asanaheaponthefloor.
*snorts*
:)