Another flow session with Briana from Canadian Macrobiotics!
This time I’ve changed it up a little bit. I’ve changed the editing to my video after I got some feedback, and the lovely Briana wrote about what we are doing for a more in depth look.
We start off with corpse pose (savasana), prepping our mind and breathing for the session. I like to use that time to think about my day, and then push it away to clear my mind to be free for whatever the yoga. We move into boat pose (naukasana/navasana). This pose helps stimulate digestive, muscular, circulatory, nervous, and hormonal systems. It also helps tone all your internal organs. Pretty much a well rounded pose (one that I struggle with, but should do more of!).
My back isn’t such an issue anymore, but it does tighten up without the pain. So we did some rock n’roll (jhulana lurhakanasana), which helps massage the nerves and muscles of the back, butt and hips. We then moved into a sleeping abdominal stretch pose (supta udarkarshanasana) which stretches the abdominal muscles and organs, and the nerves and muscles in the spine. Another good back stretch is the cows face pose (gomukhasana) helping with backache, sciatica, and stiffness in the shoulders and neck. It’s good for improving posture and induces relaxation!
After those, we tried a couple partner poses! These were fun to do, but not easy as it looked in the book. You can really see that I need to work on my balance and strength on my own before I’ll be able to get pro with this stuff. Starting with the preparatory lord shiva pose (saral natrajasana). This pose strengthens the back, shoulders, arms, legs and hips. It also helps develop balance, coordination and concentration. Definitely need to work on this one!
We then jumped to the double angle pose (dwikonasana) to strengthen the muscles between the upper spine and the shoulder blades, and develop the chest and neck. We attempted to do a partner wheel pose (chakrasana) with our legs raised, but that wasn’t going to happen. Even doing it alone is good for you! Strengthens the legs, and is beneficial to the nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, and glandular systems.
We then ended it with a variation squat, or thunderbolt pose (vajrasana), to help stretch out the bottoms of our feet. This one is so beneficial to me since I suffer from cramping in my feet after wearing heels for any length of time.
