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hi everyone
welcome to Ekhart Yoga, my name is Esther. and I'm going to show you two stretches you
can do
for your wrists because these days a lot of the yoga
we do a lot of Down dogs, Chaturanga's and Up dogs and a lot of
arms and wrist work so it's good to know how to stretch them out to keep them healty
so the first
thing to do is to come on hands and knees and then turn your
hands around so the fingers are pointing towards the knees
and that in it self is already a stretch
and to stretch it even more you could very gently move your
whole weight back so it's a stretch on the inside
of the wrists
now you can move back to your
boundaries so it's not
about how far
can I move back without hurting myself it's about
what can i do to make my wrists feel better it's a different intention
so you really go to there with your intention while you do this feeling
what feels good
and then you're here and I like pressing into my fingers a bit more
Ok
then you can come out
that's the wrist stretch on the inside, then another stretch you can do is Padahastasana
so
you can bend forward
feel free to bend your knees sufficiently
and then slip your hand underneath your feet
and you do that on both sides
so your standing on your hands
the toes are all the way up to your inner wrists
and this is about the wrists it is not about how far can I straighten in my legs
so grand if you do, but
that's not the intention, intention is to feel a lovely stretch
on the wrist so you can almost
pull
the hands up a little while you really press them down with the toes
and breath
so these two
stretches ,very simple, are easily
incorporated into your practice so slip them in here and there especially if
you do a class full of
quite heavy wrist and arm work and
you wrists will love you for it. Ok, hope this was helpfull for you and thank
you for joining me. Namaste.