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Intro to the 7 Day Virtual Yoga Retreat

Caroline Hughes · 2:33

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Yoga fundamentals
  • Biomechanics and functional movement
  • Postural awareness

Ideal for

  • Beginners to yoga
  • Practitioners wanting to revisit fundamentals
  • Anyone interested in body mechanics

Lesson

Instructions

Hey guys, welcome to my channel!! Starting tomorrow, March 23rd, I will be posting a daily video to help you learn more about yoga! This is definitely geared towards beginners but it's also helpful for those of you with a strong practice who like to go back to the fundamentals.

I'm in school to become a Physical Therapist Assistant and have many teachers who are PT's who have taught me a great deal about biomechanics of the body, functional movement, and postural work. These classes are very instructional and break down common yoga poses. Here's a look at the themes coming up:

Day 1: Meditation Day 2: Mountain Pose, Plank Pose, Down Dog Day 3: Warrior Poses Day 4: Inversions for beginners Day 5: Restorative yoga with pillows Day 6: Transitions, moving from one pose to another Day 7: Tie it all together

Hope you can join in. I have a private facebook group to encourage community during this time. We'll chat about all things yoga. I sooo look forward to meeting you all!

Steps

  • Guided breathwork
  • Seated meditation
  • Common yoga pose breakdowns

Benefits

  • Understanding yoga basics
  • Improved body awareness
  • Stress reduction
  • Enhanced functional movement

Transcript

all right guys welcome I'm Caroline I'm gonna okay teacher based here out of New Orleans I've been teaching for four years and then practicing yoga for over a decade it's one of my favorite things to do and it's one of my favorite things to share we're gonna start in a comfortable seated position you can stay on your couch or if you're in a chair and just close your eyes for going and actually sitting here root down through your sit bones and we'll lift up through your spine bring your shoulders all the way up to your ears and then relax your shoulders down away from the ears breathe in through the nose to the belly and the ribs and then exhale through the mouth inhale through the nose to the belly aside of the ribs into the chest and then exhale three do not why my breath like this inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth absolutely open your eyes all right so if that calmed your nerves I have just the thing for you coming up soon we're gonna be working on a seven-day virtual yoga retreat hopefully starting Monday and it'll be posted every day for a week the goal is just to get you moving it's gonna help us gonna be really helpful for some of you guys who practiced yoga it will be breaking down a lot of calming yoga poses we're gonna definitely work on Mountain Pose downward dog and everyday it's gonna have kind of a different theme so I encourage you to join and hopefully we're gonna start the Facebook group so we'll all be able to communicate and just have another way of you know staying in contact and making connections while we're all living in our houses all the time so I hope you guys join us we're gonna start on Monday and do the seven-day virtual yoga retreat so stay tuned you

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
4 minutes
Equipment
yoga matpillows
Target areas
mindbreathfull bodyposture
Energy
calming

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