60 Minute Yin Yoga Flow Class Deep Full Body Stretch For Tension Release |Yin Yoga For Beginner 2024

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Hello, hello!

Welcome to Saturday morning yoga. I'm pretty excited. Um, we're not doing a strength flow today. Today we're gonna do a yin yoga because I skipped yin yoga this week, so I really need to like get those muscles stretched out. Okay, let's just get started and begin. Hi, Super Freddy Pizza. How are ya? Child's pose.

Stretch your hips back and down as you gently stretch your arms forward. Relax your neck. Child's pose.

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Stretch your hips back and down as you gently stretch your arms forward. Relax your neck. And let your forehead rest slightly on your mat. Start to settle into your breath and relax into the ground beneath you. In this yin practice, we'll hold most poses between one and five minutes to give the connective tissues of the body time to release.

For each pose.

Find your first point of resistance and stay there for a while. After a minute or so, you may find that things have released and you can go a bit deeper. If so, find your next point of resistance and then pause there.

Roll up.

And make your way onto your back, soles of the feet flat to the mat. Reclined Cow Face. Cross the left leg over the right. Bring the knees up toward your chest. Reach your hands up to take hold of your shins or ankles. Flex your feet. Gradually bend at the elbows and pull the legs closer to you. Release the legs, feet to the mat. Other side, reclined cow face. Cross right leg over left, draw the knees up. Take hold of your lower legs and flex your feet. Now start to pull the legs closer to you. Uncross the legs, feet to the mat. Grab behind your hamstrings and rock and roll up to a tabletop position. Then find forward fold. Step to the top of your mat and fold over your legs, feet hip-width apart. Interlace your hands behind your head. Inhale, lift halfway up. Exhale, fold. Release the hands to the mat. Lower your knees to the mat and have a seat on your heels.

Saddle.

Take your heels wide. If you need to, use your thumbs to spin the calf muscles to the outside of the legs. Then have a seat between your heels. Now place your hands behind you and lean back. Maybe come down onto your forearms. Maybe even come all the way down to the floor. Slowly make your way up to sitting on your heels. Walk your hands back in or press your elbows and forearms down into Oh, that's comfortable. Kneeling planter stretch. Stay sitting on your heels and tuck your toes. Exhale, send the hips back to the heels and sit upright. Untuck your toes and release the stretch. Make your way to child's pose, hips back, arms along your sides. Slowly roll yourself up. Come to lie on your belly.

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Sphinx pose. Walk your hands forward and prop yourself up onto your forearms.

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Exhale, release everything to the mat. Push up to tabletop. We're going to be on the knees for a while in this next pose, so pad up the knees with a blanket if that feels more comfortable. Mandukasana. Slide your right knee out wide, then do the same with the left. Stretch one arm forward and then the other. Maybe rest on your forearms or reach your arms out long. Now come onto your belly and extend the legs long, arms by your sides. Maybe a little shimmy side to side with the hips. Stay on your belly and take your arms out like goalposts. Align your elbows with the shoulders and soften the shoulders down into the mat. Thread the needle. Turn your left palm up and And slide your left arm under your right. Send the right arm long in front, then gently lower everything down. Return to goalpost arms. Thread the needle, lift your chest, and slide your right arm under your left armpit. Then soften everything to the mat. Find goalpost arms again. Lower your arms back by your sides. Just rest here for a moment. Find staff bent knees. Press yourself up and have a seat on your mat. Soles of the feet to the floor. Fire log pose. Lay your right shin bone down and cross your left leg on top. Inhale. Press through your sit bones and sit up nice and tall. Exhale, walk your hands forward and fold. Gently start to walk your hands back toward your shins and come to a seat. Bring your hands behind you and plant your feet flat on the mat. Maybe let your knees fall side to side to neutralize your hips. Lay your left shin bone down for fire log pose. Cross your right ankle over your left knee. Inhale to sit up nice and tall. Fold over the legs as you exhale. Gently start to walk your hands Back in. Release your hands behind you and plant your feet on the ground. Point your knees at the ceiling, and if you want, let your knees just windshield wiper side to side to neutralize your hips.

Find Table Tabletop.

Roll over your shins and plant your hands. Lizard pose. Walk your hands a few inches forward, then step your right foot to the outside edge of your right hand. Maybe come down onto your forearms. Relax the head and neck. If you lowered down to your forearms, come back onto your hands, then set up for a twist. Rotate your right toes to point a little more to the right and place your right hand on your right thigh.

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If you want, come down onto the left forearm. Unwind and bring the right hand back to the mat. Find tabletop once again. Left side lizard. Hands forward, left foot steps up and out wide. If it feels good, you can come down onto your elbows. Maybe hang your head. Set up for a twist. Then swivel your left toes to point more to the left and bring your left hand to your thigh.

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Set up for a twist, then swivel your left toes to point more to the left and bring your left hand to your thigh.

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Maybe lower the right forearm. Return the left hand to the mat. Slowly return to tabletop. Pigeon upright. Walk your hands a few inches forward and then bring your right knee towards your right wrist and lay your shin down in front. Keep the left knee on the mat. And slide the left leg back. Check to make sure your left leg is straight behind you and the kneecap points down to the mat. Try to square the hips here. If your right hip is hovering off the ground, maybe slide a blanket under your right hip for extra support. If the hips square easily, you can deepen the pose we're heading to by crawling the The right foot toward the left wrist. Don't worry about how far it gets, just try to find a place that feels comfortable for your right knee.

Inhale here.

And exhale, fold forward over the front thigh. Slowly start to walk your hands back. Lift your torso back up. Find tabletop once again. Pigeon upright, left side. Walk the hands forward a bit and then move your left knee to your left wrist and lay the shin down. Slide the right leg back a few inches, kneecap points down. Again, take a moment to square the hips. Use a folded blanket under the left hip if it's hovering off the mat. If the hips are already square, to deepen the hip stretch, move the left foot gently forward toward the right wrist. Deep breath in. Exhale, fold. Slowly lift your torso back up. Slowly return to tabletop. Fine thread the needle. First inhale, reach the left hand to the sky. Let the chest open. Exhale, send it under the right arm. Palm faces up. Bring your left ear to the mat.

Breathe here.

Maybe reach a little farther with the left hand to twist deeper. Rise back up to tabletop, hands under shoulders. Thread the needle, second side. Right arm high. Inhale. Exhale. Thread it through, right ear to mat. Take a few breaths here. Melt into the floor.

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Come back up, tabletop. Calf stretch. Inhale, right leg long, toes on the mat. Exhale, Press the right heel back. Stay here and breathe. Exhale, right knee to the mat, tabletop. Calf stretch. Inhale, Left leg extends back, toes on the mat. Exhale, press the left heel back. Stay here and take some easy breaths. Exhale, left knee back to the mat, tabletop. Slowly make your way onto your back. Plant your feet on the mat. Extend both legs to the sky for Plow Pose. Start to lift your hips up and your whole back up and let your feet land on the floor behind you. You can soften your knees here if your hamstrings are tight. Maybe walk your hands to your low back. Slowly lower your back onto the mat. Point your knees at the sky and plant your feet down.

Supine twist.

Draw your right knee into your chest and hug it in. Left leg long. Take a big breath in here. Exhale. Drape the knee across your body to the left. Send your right arm to the right. Turn your gaze to the right and settle in. Cat pulling its tail. Inhale, straighten the right leg, maybe grab the right big toe with the left peace fingers. As you exhale, bend the left knee and reach back with the right hand to take hold of the left foot. Supine bent knees. Return to center, feet on the mat. Second side. Right leg long, left knee to chest. Squeeze it in. Inhale. Lay the knee over to the right side. Exhale. Left arm goes left. Gaze goes left. Relax into the floor. Cat pulling its tail. Breathe in and extend the left leg. Perhaps wrap your right peace fingers around the left big toe. Bend the right knee and sweep the left hand behind to take hold of the right foot. Exhale. Supine bent knees. Release the stretch and return to Back to center, soles of the feet to the mat. Happy baby. Drop both knees in wider than your rib cage. Reach for the outer feet or the hamstrings and exhale as you pull down on the legs, flattening your back against the mat. Draw both knees into your chest and squeeze them in tight. Take one last inhale. And exhale, shavasana. Lay the legs out long, work the arms out to the sides. Just close your eyes and be still. Begin to deepen your breath and bring some gentle movement back to your fingers and your toes.

Namaste.

12:09.

Thank you so much for sharing your yin practice with me. That was amazing. I kind of think that every yin should be an hour long and not 50 minutes because it goes by so fast and it feels so good. Um, cool. So tomorrow there is no yoga because I am going to my mom's for Sunday Easter Polish tradition type of lunch. So if I do one, it's going to be restorative anyhow, so it would be like probably later in the afternoon. Um, but chances are that it will not happen. There is a tarot divination reading tomorrow at 7:00 PM EST, so that's definite. I haven't done those in a while, so that would be a reading for the conscious collective. for the week ahead. So I'm excited to see what the energies are and what pops up. And, uh, yeah, and then Monday, business as usual. All right, cool. See you guys later.