07/01/2026
This weeks home yoga ideas: videos to help build your practice & mobility, between classes: complimenting what we do in class.
🧘🏼♂️ 2 yoga bricks (hardback novels stacked & a cushion?). One block longways under the upper part of your back & the other under your head. If books sharp cover with blanket. Open arms, bring soles of feet together & breathe deeply into your back body - 3 mins. Nice slow breaths. Then stretch arms overhead & link thumbs, gently pulling away from each other, activating your back muscles.
✨Cat & Cow variations:
Flip one hand palm up, move hips side to side, other hand.
Rotate one hand to side or fingers back towards you, Cat & Cow.
Cat: arch back up press into palms, tuck pelvis round upper back & look back, Cow: press into palms, straight arms, reach chest forward, shoulders back & down, head up as sit bones reach up & back.
Same with the other hand rotated.
✨Add to cat & cow: one leg lengthened, toe pointed IN toes reach up & back, body in Cow pose, EX knee to nose body in Cat pose x3
✨ On same side add chaturanga (push up) arms: IN toes up & back, bend elbows into a press up, elbows over wrists, any amount, elbows face backwards, chest reaches forward, push back up into cat with knee to nose x3.
Other leg.
✨Classic Sun Salute: Mountain pose with 🙏🏻 IN circle arms up & out into Upward Salute, EX forward fold, IN step R leg back down the mat, bend knee to floor arms rise to a Low lunge, weight in L leg, crest reaching to the sky, breathe here. EX hands to floor press back into down dog. EX plank, shoulders slightly forward of hands, chaturanga or bend knees to floor body straight, hips high, bend arms forward and down IN hips down press forward into a small Cobra, chest pulling through arms, EX down dog, IN R leg into three legged dog, step forward between hands L knee down, arms rise, breathe here, EX hands down step up forward fold IN arms rise to upward salute EX to 🙏🏻 repeat
with L leg.
Happy Practicing!
