I'm Gail Keely this is a practice for the Aging Gracefully program 55+
So let's start lying on our backs in constructive rest like you can have a
blanket under the back of your head if you like it constructive rest knees bent
feet flat on the floor and feed it about hip width apart and we'll start the
sacral rock so we're just going to tip the knees very slowly to the right just
a couple inches and then back to the left and just keep this movement going
if you find any sore spots move slowly through them if you're not finding any
sore spots then you can move your legs a little deeper to the side
maybe move just a little faster but keep it slow warming up the joints in the
legs and the hips eventually you can drop your legs all
the way over to the side a couple more times in each direction
and then coming back to the center hug the knees into the chest and then take
your knees wide reach down between your legs and hold the front of the ankles
with straight arms let your knees and feet just drop out to the sides if
you're getting a really nice stretch in the upper inner thighs here you can stay
here and if Happy Baby is not accessible to you this is a good alternative pose
but if you can do Happy Baby and you're ready for it let's take the feet up over
the knees I'm gonna hold the outside edges of the feet for Happy Baby
and then let the feet go and float back down to the floor cross the right ankle
over the left knee and then let's do this little swivel with the knee so draw
the knee towards you and then away do that about three or four times just
warming up the hip joint a little more and then keeping the knee away on an
exhale bring both legs towards you reach through hold to thread the needle
hold either the back of the left thigh or front of the left knee keep the knee
out to the side shoulders are down away from the ears find the steady breath and
then you can do a little pumping action waiting for the exhale when it comes
draw the knees in a little using your arms and release for a breath in you can
work it like that or you can just be static in the pose thread the needle
and then release and untangle the legs take it to the other side left ankle
over right knee do the swivel knees moving towards your face and then away
from your face three or four times and then hold a knee away on the exhale
bring the legs towards you reach through thread the needle you can flex that top
foot too so this it all ever bothers your knee flex your foot drawing the
toes back towards the shin that'll engage the knee joint and protect your
knee from over stretch and then if you like that little pumping action drawing
the knees in on the exhale releasing for breath in
and then releasing the pose bring the feet back down to the floor and then
let's roll it over it will roll to the left side bringing the knees up to about
hip level inhale the right arm up to the ceiling and exhale out into a twist
taking the back of the right shoulder towards the floor
turning the head softly steady breath
and then releasing and rolling onto your back let's take it to the other side
knees up the same level inhale the left arm up and exhale out into the twist
there steady breath here
and then release the twist coming back knees bent feet flat on the floor just
for a few breaths and then let's come up to stand and we'll stand at the back of
the mat in Mountain Pose
and let's do some shoulder rotations inhale up exhale down inhale up exhale
down I want to do this about eight times just gently moving the shoulders don't
force through any stuck spots keep your knees and hips soft shoulders soft and
one more time inhale up exhale down change sides inhale up exhale down
inhaling up exhale down keep it soft be gentle with the shoulders and one more
rotation here
and then back to Mountain Pose let's take hands interlace the fingers and
stretch up tall press the feet gently down draw the belly button back and then
release the left fingertips all the way down and start to side bend over to the
left use your arm as a lever here so keep the arm relatively straight you can
swing your hips way out to the right and if your neck is bothering you just turn
your head look down draw the belly button strongly back and then up you
come inhale stretching the arms forward palms away from you
stretch up release the right fingertips and start the side bend to the right and
then here you can let your hips sway out to the left reach the arm release your
neck turn your head if you need to belly
button strongly back towards the spine and hold it there is up you come and
then let's take chair pose inhale both arms forward and up exhaling bending the
knees moving the sit bones back a little if this is hard for your shoulders
instead bend your elbows and bring your arms out to the side like this try to
get the weight on the heels and look down make sure your knees are right over
your toes a couple breaths and then slowly just rolling over towards the
forward bend hang down but if your hands don't touch the floor put your hands up
on blocks
and then let's start to walk out to Table Pose bending the knees coming to
Table for Cat Pose wait for an exhale and when it comes swivel your hips so
your tailbone points down push your hands down a back bend we'll come in
start normal breath here draw your belly button up a lot and then when you get
ready to release it do it on an inhale swiveling the hips so the tailbone
points up the backbend drops in as you lift your chest and just go back and
forth like this three more times in each direction
and after your last one push back to Child's Pose
let's stretch the arms forward inhale back up to all fours and then check out
your hands make sure they're placed well for Downward-facing Dog pose I like the
middle fingers pointing straight forward and parallel with each other hands are
shoulder-width apart turning the toes under press your hands and feet down and
lift with your belly button coming back into the Down Dog
slowly putting the legs into it
and then bending the knees come on back down child pose and then this roll up to
sitting on the heels if this isn't good for you you can sit up on a block or you
could put a blanket around the back of your knees like so and then bringing
both arms forward let's stack the right elbow in to the left bend the elbows
bring the hands together draw the lower ribs back keep your neck soft move your
head around see if you can lift your elbows just a little
Eagle Arms Garudasana
and then release bring the arms forward again put the left and to the right bend
the elbows hands together you want ultimately your thumbs to be pointing at
your face make sure you haven't jutted your
lower ribs forward neck is soft elbows lift a little and then the steady breath
and then release and let's come back into Table Pose we'll do Bird Dog
slide your right foot back toes turned under draw the belly button up against the
spine and then lift the leg spot the yogic gaze on the floor and then lift
the opposite arm steady breath and then release slide the left leg back belly
button up against the spine lift the leg spot the gaze then the opposite arm
and then release let's take Plank Pose so once again stat the hair just like
Down Dog bring the shoulders forward so they're right over the wrists and then
step the legs back Plank Pose belly button up against the spine and then
pull it up like you're trying to pull it up towards your chin and then slowly
just bend the knees and come all the way down to the floor bring your hands
forward bring your knees towards each other
bend your left knee reach back with your left hand to get that foot now from here
you can either have your head down or you can use your elbow your right elbow
to elevate your chest for Half Frog Pose steady breath
and then release change sighs so inner knees towards each other
bend the right leg reach back at the foot you can also use a belt so if
you're not able to reach your foot use a belt to make your arm a little longer
just loop the belt around the foot steady breath
and then release must come into Sphinx Pose so elbows are shoulder-width apart
wrists shoulder-width apart elbows are just forward of the shoulders here
sternum is lifted a little
this is oppose that we'd like to hold for maybe even a whole minute just a
little bit longer here and now let's slowly come all the way back to Child's Pose
just walk your hands back push back you can sashay your hips from side to
side as you go back to decompress your spine and then let's come back up to the
Standing Forward Bend Uttanasana hang down
and then bending the knees rolling up slowly
having shoulders coming up last and you can bring your hands to your heart and
Anjali Mudra and then let's take wide leg standing post we'll take the feet
wide outer edges of the feet are parallel to the short ends of the mat
and then coming forward bending at the hips is calming forward release your
arms if they don't touch the floor put your hands up on blocks otherwise just
bring your hands to the floor
keep a flat back at first so the crown of the head is forward sternum forward
ribcage forward but then we're just going to allow this to go over and over
into its forward bend
and then reach out grab your ankles if you can otherwise keep your hands on the
floor don't lose your balance squeeze your legs towards each other so pull the
ankles towards each other
and then slowly coming back up bend your knees again and curl up and bring your
legs together and then let's come back down again this time we want to have a
block near us come down and set up to do a supported bridge pose so lying down on
your backs have your block within reach and we're going to take this Bridge Pose
up to a little supported inversion and so you can go on any height of the block
this height this height or even the flat height I recommend the middle one but if
you can't get it go to the flat one so all we're going to do is bring the feet
back towards the back of the hips press the feet down lift the sacrum and slide
the block in right in under the sacrum and then we want to get a nice rounded
back chest here so what we're going to do is press the back of the head gently
down the shoulders gently down and the elbows gently down you can point your
fingers up and that'll just lift your chest so just practice that pressing the
back of the head the shoulders and the elbows plus the for our upper arms down
lift the chest keep that and then bring your knees up over your hips and your
feet up over your knees and then you can bring your hands down as long as you can
keep the lift in the chest we want to chest lifted the whole time this is
called Deep Leg Pose it's really just a supported Half Shoulder Stand
if you can't do this on your own you can do it up against a wall it's a lot like
legs on wall and you can rest your legs on the wall if you prefer
and then slowly bending the knees take the feet to the floor pick up the hips
take the block out on curl your spine and hug your knees back to your chest
all right let's come up and this time let's take a blanket and unfold it just
enough to this about this size and then put it on your mat and come back and sit
on it like so make sure there's nothing behind you move the blocks away and
we'll do Half Boat Pose Ardha Navasana so Half Boat is done with a little curvy
spine so you allow your back to slouch a little you drop your chin towards your
chest you've engaged the lowest abdominal muscles way down they run from
hip to hip transverse abdominus they're called
when you think you have them tip back and see if you can balance on your sit
bones if you can do that and the next step is bring your feet up to knee
height and you can see I've activated my feet don't let them slack off let go the
last thing is to slide out to the half boat go slowly try to keep your head and
your feet on the same plane drawing your belly button back strongly as you go
stay on your sacrum and then slowly release come up lean forward
and let's do one more Half Boat taking it from the top remember you can always
retreat to this step before it so the slouchy back drop chin engage the
abdominals balance feet up release the hands and the last thing slide it out
keep drawing your abdominals back towards your spine and then up you
come once again just lean forward and then you can slowly come out and we're
at Shavasana Corpse Pose use your blanket under your head if you like or cover up
make yourselves very comfortable and have a nice Shavasana, Namaste
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