Impressed by each my dance background and a few wonderful lecturers, I started to search for extra methods to permit extra freedom inside the conventional asana type. For me this seems to be like experimenting with size and depth of breath, discovering pulsations or diving into the realm of refined actions that provoke from an inner reference level. These 5 poses are a few of these which I typically use to discover this concept.
Wild Factor
This pose could be approached in many various methods; seated, downward canine, plank, aspect plank. Nevertheless, from downward canine
Carry one leg into the sky
Bend the knee and rotate the hip open
Step the foot to the surface of the grounded leg
As soon as your each ft are assembly the mat pour your weight by the ft to elevate the physique
The chest and pelvis start to rotate in direction of the sky and the free arm can prolong.
From right here I wish to carry my hips to the ground and push again up a lot of occasions, bending each knees to contract the physique after which breathe out into the expanded type.
Goddess
Stand with together with your ft extensive aside. Toes turned out and heels turned in
Bend your knees and permit your pelvis to sink in direction of the mat
There’s a lot capability to seek out your individual expression and motion patterns inside goddess pose. Experiment with the higher physique and arms to start out (it’s additionally an ideal assist when the legs get a bit fiery) and see what occurs
Phoenix Pose
Begin in mountain pose
Deliver your knee to your chest
Step the lifted leg to the surface of the standing leg. Balancing on the ball of the foot
Bend the knees and sit hips again (like chair pose)
Attain arms up and take a large v-shape
I wish to pulse this one and use my arms like wings of a fowl. As I inhale I attain them and my gaze upward and as I exhale and wrap the arms round me and produce my chin to my chest.
Sunflower Breath
A easy one-breath-per-movement asana that acts a bit like blowing away the times particles.
Stand with legs barely wider than hip width aside
Inhale to elevate arms and straighten legs
Exhale to decrease arms, bend knees and fold the physique ahead
Relying on my how a lot vitality I want to maneuver I’ll alter the pace and depth, typically including a soar as I inhale to stimulate, for instance, or shifting actually slowly (8 rely inhales and exhales) to unwind
Constructive relaxation
Nothing like giving your self a giant outdated hug! This pose is an entire reset. The proximity to the bottom and the self contact simply really feel magical and might domesticate as sense of containment plus the power to completely launch
Lay on the ground
Deliver legs wider than hip width
Permit knees to fall in direction of each other
Wrap arms round your physique with fingers resting in your shoulders
You possibly can change the positioning of the arms too; overhead, in your thighs, alongside your torso or wherever in your physique. See what feels good for you.
That is the place refined actions really feel bigger than life, reminiscent of a sway of the pelvis, imagining you’re pouring water from one hip half to the opposite. And even simply respiratory into the again of the physique and noticing the way it imprints on the mat.
