Sun Salutation
Press your palms together in prayer position.
Sun salutation. Inhale half way up. Inhale as you sweep your arms out to the side and overhead. Guided by brooklyn yoga. What is a sun salutation.
Exhale high to low plank. Introducing sun salutations the perfect yoga workout sun salutations provide a good cardiovascular workout stretch every part of the body and when used with breath. A sun salutation also known as surya namaskar is a traditional yoga practice that in today s modern culture is made up of 12 poses that are linked together to form a flow. This video explores the traditional sun salutation.
Sun salutations are typically performed at the beginning of a yoga routine as a warmup for the whole body. Release your arms to either side and forward bend over your legs as if you were doing a swan. Inhale to a flat back. To watch other sun salutation variations see surya namaskar b and a modified variation for beginners.
Each movement is coordinated with the breath. Surya namaskar or sun salutation is a series of postures that warms strengthens and aligns the entire body. Sun salutation illustrated step by step instructions uttanasana to flat back. In plank make sure your shoulders are over your.
Inhale to come all the way up to standing arms reach high start of video exhale to fold forward hands through heart center. Gently arch your back. Standing mountain pose tadasana. Sun salutation a surya namaskara a 1.
A simple and effective series of yoga postures that invigorates the whole body. This series of moves links your breath and movement with rhythm bringing you into a more. These postures can be used. Even more impressively this sequence takes the spine through almost every possible range of motion.
Watch a modified version of sun salutation a to make it more accessible. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing. Plant your palms and step or jump back to a plank position. Inhale as you extend or stretch and exhale as you fold or contract.
Upward salute urdhva hastasana.