Passive Yoga: Relax with supported Shoulderstand and Fish

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namaste and welcome to yoga vitia practice video mahashakti will demonstrate simple variations of shoulder stand and fish supported by a pillow these practices can rejuvenate you very easily they're especially helpful if you are tired or you don't want to do the more strenuous yoga exercises if you just want to relax and get new energy very fast you start by lying on the floor then you take one pillow you bend your knees and lift up your hips you put the pillow underneath your buttocks or underneath your coccyx or your lumbar spine or your thoracic spine feel what will be best for you then you'll lift up your legs and you keep your legs up you can either keep your palms upwards towards the ceiling or you could also lift up your hands and put your hands onto your lower legs or leave them in this ceiling towards the sky you could also grasp hold of your pants or of your calf muscles to hold your legs or if it's more relaxing you can put your arms behind you then when you found your posture then you breathe deeply you can also try to pull in your chin a little bit towards your chest lengthening your neck you can feel your blood supply coming back from your legs towards your heart by deep breathing you let this venus blood go back to your heart and then you can concentrate on your throat thyroid gland seat of visual detector the throat center relaxing and recharging you can hold this posture for anything between ten breaths and two to five minutes after you've been in this variation of shoulder stand you can go to a simple fish supported fish which is also relaxing opening up your throat center and your heart center first you stretch out your legs then you sit up you put a pillow underneath your shoulders and you try out that you find a posture which is really relaxing and then you can stretch out your arms behind your head another variation would be your grasp hold of your elbows and by grasping hold of your elbows you can relax or you can leave your arms like mahashakti does right now next to your body or a little apart from your body once you're in the posture again breathe deeply when the inhale abdomen goes out when you exhale abdomen goes in if you're more advanced you can even breathe more fully inhale abdomen and chest out exhale chest and abdomen in usually you hold this fish variation half the time you have held the shoulder stand after this variation you can either continue with your yoga practice or you can go to final relaxation or you can also start your day fresh with new energy fresh with new relaxation and with new creativity mahashakti yoga teach and yoga therapist at yoga vitya in germany and sukhadev wish you a wonderful day more information on yoga on our web pages with weather you also find all the programs of yoga vitia a yoga ashram in the center of germany all the best we wish you a wonderful day