Yoga for Flexibility is a very nice, feel good yoga practice. This has no complicated moves, but you do get some yoga “work.” Sara does basic yoga moves as well as easier versions of a few more advanced yoga moves (but no actual advanced moves). And you hold them all long enough to get a good stretch. It is done voice over with some nice relaxing background music. I really needed this today. I have been doing Rippedism workouts for the past two weeks. Each time I did a Rippedism workout I ended it with a Classical Stretch workout, which not only doubled as a cool down but also gave me mobility, flexibility and worked my body nicely. But today was a very tough Rippedism Raw workout–The Crucible, and it was nice to really slow it down afterward with this relaxing yoga practice. It felt very good and gave me a total body stretch, which I needed after a tough total body metabolic workout.
Yoga for Flexibility is 19:30 minutes; no equipment needed except a fitness mat.
- The workout starts in extended child’s pose
- Downward facing dog pedaling the feet
- Forward fold with hands interlaced behind back and raised to ceiling (or as high as your able to stretch your shoulders and chest)
- Halfway lift pose
- Forward fold
- Mountain pose with arms raised overhead
- Flow between #4, 5 & 6 several more times
- Straight arm plank; drop to knees then lower into a partial tricep push up into upward facing dog
- Downward facing dog
- 3 leg dog into kneeling crescent pose
- Half split pose
- Runners lunge with one arm reaching to ceiling
- Still in runners lunge, lift back foot off floor and hold with hand to stretch quad
- Repeat #8 & 9
- Repeat #10-13 on other side of body
- Repeat #14
- Warrior 1
- Warrior 2
- Reverse warrior
- Down dog
- Repeat #17-19 on other side of body
- Down dog, pedaling feet
- Half camel pose
- Kneel with bottom on heels, hands on thighs and close eyes
- Lay on back and do reclining pigeon (figure 4 stretch)
- Half happy baby pose
- Lying spinal twist
- Repeat #25-27 on other side of body
- Lay on back, bring knees into chest, wrap arms around shins while also bringing head toward knees
- Corpse pose for approximately 75 seconds
- Sit cross-leg with hands in prayer
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