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Deep Stretching & Shoulder Releases: Gentle Yoga with Erin 4 28 20
This gentle yoga session incorporates a variety of poses and techniques aimed at promoting relaxation, flexibility, balance, and mindfulness. Here's a list of key poses and techniques along with their benefits:
Seated Meditation: Starting seated helps to ground and center the practitioner, promoting mindfulness and focus.
Shoulder Rolls: Rolling the shoulders up and back helps release tension and stiffness in the shoulders and upper back, promoting relaxation.
Breathing Exercises: Deep breathing exercises, such as inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth, help to calm the mind, reduce stress, and promote relaxation.
Mountain Pose (Tadasana) Variation: This variation involves reaching the arms up and leaning gently from side to side, helping to stretch and lengthen the sides of the body.
Forward Fold (Uttanasana) Variation: Forward folds help release tension in the back and hamstrings, while also calming the mind and promoting relaxation.
Seated Forward Fold (Paschimottanasana): This pose stretches the spine, shoulders, and hamstrings, promoting relaxation and flexibility.
Seated Twists: Twists help to release tension in the spine, improve digestion, and promote detoxification.
Knee Circles: Circles with the knees help to lubricate the hip joints and release tension in the lower back and hips.
Tabletop Pose (Bharmanasana): This pose helps to improve spinal alignment, strengthen the core, and promote balance.
Child's Pose (Balasana): Child's pose helps to stretch the back, hips, and thighs, while also promoting relaxation and stress relief.
Figure Eight Movement: This movement pattern helps to release tension in the hips and improve mobility in the pelvis.
Wide-Legged Child's Pose: This variation of Child's Pose helps to stretch the inner thighs and groin muscles, promoting relaxation and flexibility.
Standing Balancing Poses: Balancing poses help to improve concentration, focus, and balance while also strengthening the legs and core muscles.
Happy Baby Pose (Ananda Balasana): This pose helps to release tension in the hips and lower back, while also promoting relaxation and stress relief.
Leg Circles: Circles with the legs help to release tension in the hips and improve mobility in the hip joints.
Final Relaxation (Shavasana): Shavasana helps to integrate the benefits of the practice, promote deep relaxation, and reduce stress and anxiety.
Each of these poses and techniques contributes to the overall goal of the gentle yoga session, which is to promote relaxation, flexibility, balance, and mindfulness.
key poses & techniques and their benefits:
Seated Centering: Finding a centered seat and focusing on the sitz bones helps to ground and align the body, promoting stability and proper posture.
Breath Awareness: Deep breathing exercises help to calm the mind, reduce stress, and increase oxygen flow throughout the body, promoting relaxation and clarity of mind.
Arm Movements: Stretching the arms up and overhead helps to lengthen the spine and stretch the shoulders, promoting flexibility and relieving tension in the upper body.
Side Stretch: Leaning to the sides while keeping the arms lifted stretches the sides of the body, increases flexibility in the spine, and improves lateral mobility.
Forward Fold: Folding forward stretches the hamstrings, releases tension in the lower back, and promotes relaxation.
Seated Twists: Twisting movements massage the abdominal organs, aid in digestion, and promote spinal mobility.
Hip Openers: Various poses such as Baddha Konasana and variations of forward folds help to open the hips, relieve tension, and increase flexibility in the hip joints.
Balancing Poses: Balancing on one foot challenges stability, improves concentration, and strengthens the muscles of the legs and ankles.
Dynamic Movements: Figures of eight movements and gentle patting or tapping motions help to release tension, improve circulation, and energize the body.
Breathing Techniques Throughout: Emphasizing long exhales, synchronizing breath with movement, and making the exhale longer than the inhale promotes relaxation, stress relief, and deepening of the practice.
Overall, this gentle yoga practice focuses on increasing flexibility, promoting relaxation, improving breath awareness, and fostering a sense of balance and well-being in both body and mind.

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