Improve Your Forward Bends in 7 Days. Day 2. Uttanasana - foot lifted. Iyengar yoga for Beginners.

Improve your Forward Bends in 7 Days. Day 2. Uttanasana with the balls of the feet lifted. Iyengar Yoga for Beginners.

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This 7 day yoga practice will stretch your hamstrings and improve your forward bends. Uttanasana, the classic standing forward bend, is practiced here with the hands onto the seat of a chair. This ensures that you keep the alignment in the pose. The balls of the feet come onto a yoga plank or a yoga brick, which stretches the hamstrings and opens out in the back of the knees. In the previous action of Uttanasana in this series, you have learnt to keep the quads and kneecaps lifted to keep the hamstring muscles safe. If you don't have any yoga equipment, a thick book or a folded blanket can be used. Tight hamstrings are often associated with a stiff upper back. And we often see in those who come to yoga class with low back pain, the combination of a long spine and tight hamstrings. Stretching the hamstrings will, over a period of time, alleviate these back problems.

Yoga does provide a physical workout, but more importantly, these programmes are designed to harmonise mind, body and breath. Yoga is not just to increase your flexibility, strength and the general tone of your body; it has the capacity to free your mind, improve your wellbeing and increase your mental resilience. Begin here to create a foundation for a home yoga practice. These free online yoga classes can be practiced at home; although we would always suggest you find a qualified Iyengar Yoga teacher near to you so you can attend a class.

Check out our 30 days of yoga series for sequences to practice every day. http://bit.ly/2ykAyPY
Or look at our Deep Forward Bends series, for more advanced yoga poses http://bit.ly/2oFPCjg
If you are looking for Beginners Yoga, check out our Beginners series http://bit.ly/2z3mXvH

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Subscribe to our channel; if you opt for notifications, you will be advised as new videos are launched. We will be posting videos for all levels but if you have never done yoga before or you want to re-visit some of the basics - then start here! Get out your mat and build the foundation of your own yoga practice with this 1 minute home yoga video. Enjoy!


Stay connected~

For more structured classes: http://myyogatutor.com/

For booking face to face classes: http://www.iyengar-yoga.co.uk/

Facebook:   / maidstoneyogacentre  

Twitter:   / maidstoneyogacentre  

For our ebook, "Yoga for the Stiffer Body": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yoga-Stiffer...

Pinterest:   / craddock1310