Relaxing Full Body Stretch // Flexibility & Mobility

Relaxing Full Body Stretch // Flexibility & Mobility is another wonderful flexibility workout from Heather Robertson. It is similar to her Day 7 Home Workout Challenge // Full Body Stretch & Recovery, except this is even gentler than that one. I really love the variety of full length workouts that Heather is creating this past year. I also love combining her yoga fusion workouts with these gentler flexibility workouts for an hour long mobility/flexibility recovery day workout. This workout is done voice over with relaxing background music. Heather leads you through a series of relaxing, feel good stretches. I will definitely be using this workout (just like her Full Body Stretch & Recovery) frequently.

Relaxing Full Body Stretch // Flexibility & Mobility is 26:06 minutes. Equipment: fitness mat. Optional: a chair for balance for one of the moves. Many of the moves are done more than once; in the break down below I only list the exercise once even though you may flow through it several times before moving on to the next exercise in the breakdown. You will also do everything on both sides of the body, even if it isn’t mentioned in the breakdown.

1. Deep breath, reaching arms overhead, into forward fold
2. Shoulder rolls
3. Clasp hands behind back and pull down, stretching shoulders; add neck stretches; fold forward, raising clasped hands to ceiling
4. Standing quad stretch; changes to dancers pose
5. Stand with legs wide and shift into a deep side lunge to stretch inner thigh
6. Forward fold with legs wide
7. Pyramid pose, shifting your weight forward and back, raising and lowering toes
8. Deep kneeling lunge, both arms reach overhead while arching spine; lower arms so they are extended straight in front of you at shoulder height and reach arms and torso forward then pull torso back, squeezing shoulder blades together; place one hand on ground beside front foot and reach other arm to ceiling (same side arm as front leg); swap arm positions
9. Still in deep kneeling lunge, grab back ankle and pulled it into your bottom to stretch the quad
10. Downward facing dog, pedal feet
11. Repeat #7-9 on other side of body
12. Repeat #10
13. Pigeon pose
14. Cobra pose
15. Lay on stomach with legs extended, alternate bending knees and bringing heels to glutes
16. Bow pose
17. Flow between child’s pose and cobra
18. Cat/cow
19. Bird dog
20. Wide leg child’s pose, reaching arms to one side
21. Seated spine twist
22. With knees bent, hands holding thighs just above knees, roll body back and forth from neck to glutes
23. Lay on mat, knees bent and feet on floor, arms are on the ground in goal post/cactus, shift knees side to side, rolling the hips
24. Still on back, pull knees into chest and rock hips side to side
25. Happy baby pose
26. Figure 4 stretch (reclining pigeon)
27. Still laying on back, extend one leg straight on floor and the other is raised straight to ceiling, hold raised thigh with both hands, point and flex toes; bend knee and pull leg into chest
28. Reclining spinal twist
29. Bridge pose; wheel pose if you are able
30. Sit cross leg, grab one wrist behind back and pull it over to opposite side while also tilting head to side, stretching neck
31. Sitting cross-leg, clasp hands and reaching them in front of you, rounding back
32. Corpse pose

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