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What's so special about yoga? I think the most important thing about yoga
is that we're doing enhanced breathing - were increasing the amount of oxygen
that we take in. On every breath we're
exhaling fully so that when we inhale
we have full, bountiful
lung's full oxygen. This enhanced
breath strengthens our heart,
increases the circulation of our blood
and this oxygen feeds trillions of cells.
It improves our overall health. Another unique feature of
yoga is going upside down.
For those of you that are not practicing yoga now - you might not have the
strength
or the awareness or the confidence to be upside down.
Today I'm gonna show you how to safely
do a supported shoulder stand or what we call sarvangasana
Sarvangasana means it
benefits all the limbs. All the limbs will benefit from sarvangasana.
We take these yoga postures with firmness
and strengthen and tone.
So a yoga asana, yoga position- it's not for one part of the body
it's for the entire form all at once.
shoulder stand is good for thyroid.
Its believed that the pressure of the chin to the throat here
helps to balance and create healthy thyroid.
Going upside down we
tip our bodies over and we take all the weight
off the internal organs. All the weight
off our tired joins. And we let blood
flush through the body in the direction it doesn't usually flush in.
and it brings enhanced eyesight,
hearing, thinking. And I
also believe that it helps, over the years,
to create a more youthful appearance.
Here's how. We want to protect our neck - that's the most important thing.
So we're using this folded blanket so that our neck doesn't take pressure on
the floor.
My neck is going to be coming off this folded blanket
like a slinky. Here I am - my seat is on the wall.
I'm rolling onto this and
as you can see my neck is not on the floor
its not taking any pressure. my shoulders are on the blanket I'm really gonna push
them down
uhh - so that they take support and
my whole arm pressing down. Using my legs
and I'm gonna be talking in shoulder seam but you are not allowed to talk in
shoulder stand.
I'm going to inhale and press up.I'm using the strength of my legs
firmly on the wall
to lift and press forward.
My shoulders and arms are on the floor and my neck is
floating. I'm very well supported.
I'm not going to try
to balance with my legs off the wall.
No! I'm going to stay here
in a supported position firming my legs,
firming my pelvis. Toning and firming my abdomen,
spine and arms. And I'm gonna take a
few breaths here - softly gazing towards the tip of my nose,
breathing through my nose...
As I start to get tired
I'm going to slowly - with control and awareness - using
overall body strength come
down. Now that I'm
down I can feel this
blood rush. And Im going to allow
everything to settle for a few moments. Internally
I'm going to say aaaah. Here it is I'm gonna say it now...
And after resting about a minute
I'm going to gently roll over and come up.
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