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MOAR’s Daily Dozen: DAY 12 – Reclining Shoelace
Step-by-Step: Lay flat on your back, legs long with head resting heavy on the mat. Draw your knees in toward your chest, bent, and cross your right leg over left. Reach for your ankles or feet with each hand (right hand grabs left foot, left hand grabs right foot). Gently pull the feet toward your […]
MOAR’s Daily Dozen: DAY 11 – Reclining Thread the Needle
Step-by-Step: Lay flat on your back, legs long. Head is heavy, face is relaxed. Plant your left foot flat on the mat, knee bent. Make sure you can just barely reach your left heel with your left fingertips. Bend your right leg, placing right ankle on top of left knee. Flex the right foot. Reach […]
MOAR’s Daily Dozen: DAY 10 – Seated Spinal Twist
Step-by-Step: Start in a seated position, legs long, tall spine. Bend your left leg, bringing left knee to mat, left heel to outside of right hip. Bend your right leg up and over the left leg, right ankle hooks outside left knee (sole of right foot presses into the floor). Bring your right hand behind […]
MOAR’s Daily Dozen: DAY 9 – Half Pigeon
Step-by-Step: From Downward Facing Dog, start by sending your right leg up and back. Shift forward, stacking shoulders over wrists and bring the right knee to the floor behind the right wrist. Work to bring the right foot as close to the left wrist as it will go. Pressing into the mat, distribute your weight […]
MOAR’s Daily Dozen: DAY 8 – Plow
Step-by-Step: From laying on your back, exhale and use your core to send your legs up and over head with control. Slowly lower your feet toward the floor behind and beyond your head. Keep your chin to your chest, neck straight, and do not look from side to side. If your toes touch the ground, […]
New science backs up the healing properties of yoga and meditation.
If you’re a regular or even an intermittent yoga practitioner, I’m sure you can come up with a long list of benefits to getting on the mat: reducing stress, gaining a sense of community, improving posture and confidence, toning muscle and promoting general...