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Andrea Marcum Yoga "Busy Moms Sweet Sweaty Time Out Flow"

Yoga on Gaia · 2:24

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Efficiency and directness in practice
  • Finding moments for self-care and grounding
  • Importance of stability for safe mobility

Ideal for

  • Busy parents, especially mothers
  • Individuals with limited time for yoga
  • Practitioners seeking a powerful yet effective flow
  • Anyone looking for stress relief and physical challenge

Lesson

Instructions

Andrea Marcum Yoga "Busy Moms Sweet Sweaty Time Out Flow", See the Full Length Video Here:

Andrea Marcum leads this strong practice, Busy Mom's Sweaty-Sweet Time-Out Flow. This Marcum Method flow gets right to the point and gets the job done! Slip this in as your own time-out during naptime, play dates, or while they're pretending to do their homework and texting their friends. You'll emerge centered, grounded & ready to resume your super-human duties. Great for anyone who has limited time and want a generous helping of powerful flow, great stretch & stress release, with a delicious well-earned savasana for dessert.

Props: Blocks are a great way to modify. Stability is key as we encourage our mobility -- without it we risk injury. I strongly suggest them as an addition to your home practice. As you will see, I use them frequently for modifications in this sequence.

Steps

  • Chair Pose (Utkatasana)
  • Navasana (Boat Pose)
  • Ardha Navasana (Half Boat Pose) variations
  • Chaturanga Dandasana
  • Warrior I (Virabhadrasana)

Benefits

  • Stress relief and mental clarity
  • Increased energy and feeling grounded
  • Improved core strength and full-body flexibility
  • Readiness to tackle daily responsibilities

Transcript

and your fingers make sure you don't suffer the crinkly finger syndrome as you get a little bit warmed up and a little bit fatigued bend your knees in step or float inhale gazing forward exhale folding in bend your knees katasana the chair pose rotate those pinkies towards each other and relax the shoulders drop those hips as low as you can keep the breath through the nose and lower back down to our navasana feel free to bend the knees feel free to bend the knees and put the feet flat on the ground especially now that we're into our third round you may be feeling like you don't need as much spice lower artanavasana interlace your hands behind your head left elbow to the right knee and right elbow to the left knee you could put the opposite foot flat on the ground if that variation feels a little more steady to you we go side to side here you make it your own and you take breaks along our journey anytime you need them so if you need to come out of the pose for a moment no problem and we'll stay at the center here and we'll start to extend the legs a little or a lot some of you the full arden of asana with the legs straight some of you the knees remain bent and perhaps the feet stay on the ground keep staying here and then float up navasana roll over your knees chaturanga downward facing right foot steps through for veerabhadrasana warrior one hands to your mat a vinyasa or straight to your down dog if you prefer we'll take our second side here left foot steps through back heel spins veerabhadrasana and then hands to your mat and either vinyasa or straight to down dog once you get to down dog see how you're doing if it's impossible for you to get your breath to slow down and get steady like our first child's pose return to child's pose and find that breathing

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
20 minutes
Equipment
yoga matyoga blocks
Target areas
CoreLegsShouldersFull body
Energy
energizing

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