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Ok, everyone, we're at week two of the 30 Day Yoga for Tight Hips Program. How's it going for you?! I'm loving checking instagram for everyone's thoughts, input and pictures! This week we're getting a little deeper into the practice and spending a bit more time in the chosen hips pose. Hope you enjoy this week's practice!
30 Day Yoga for Tight Hips - Week 2
April 8, 2015
- 5 minute body scan
- posture sequence - breathe 3 - 7 breaths in each pose, except for cat cow pose, where you’ll want to inhale and lift the tailbone and head, and exhale as you press the mat away (ie move with your breath)
- 15 minute afternoon hip opening yoga practice
- Spend 5-7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose.
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April 9, 2015
- 5 minute music meditation using a mudra of your choice. (Playlist option.)
- 5-10 deep breaths in happy baby pose
- warm up yoga sequence
- 20 minute yoga practice for hips
- 5-10 deep breaths in frog pose (picture two - using a bolster or a couch cushion)
- 5-10 deep breaths in parsvottansana (beginners can bend the front leg a bit if needed)
- Spent 5 - 7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose
- End in at least 5 minutes of savasana.
April 10, 2015
- 7 minute yoga for wrists warm up
- 5 minute chair yoga for body warm up
- 5-10 deep breaths in forward fold
- 5-10 deep breaths in supta gomukhasana (last photo)
- Beginners: 10 minute chair yoga video and/or 20 minute vinyasa yoga with a block video
- Intermediate or Advanced: 40 minute power flow with binds video
- Everyone: spent 5-7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose
- End in at least 5 minutes of savasana.
April 11, 2015
- 20 minute yin yoga video
- 30 minute yoga for sciatica video
- pause video halfway and spent 5 - 7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose
April 12, 2015
- Rest day
April 13, 2015
- 10 minute warm up yoga
- 30 minute heart opening feel good yoga video
- 5-10 deep breaths in upavistha konnasana b
- 5-7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose
- 10 minutes savasana
April 14th
- 1 minute happy baby pose
- Yoga for small spaces squence
- Heart opening sequence
- Headstand play - practice entering headstand from these three ways (9 minutes total, 3 min each variation)
- Get strong now sequence
- 5-7 minutes practicing your chosen hips pose
- 10 minute savasana
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