Yoga To Treat Anxiety & Stress | Yoga To Calm Your Mind | Beginners Yoga | Simple Yoga Lesson

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[Music] hi you're watching yoga with AJ and today we are going to do a few poses very simple very simple movements as well to help you release anxiety or stress so rest your hands however you like take a nice deep breath in through the nose and exhale through the mouth let's do that three more times if you feel like close your eyes while doing it in the end through the nose two more times [Music] [Music] pause for a moment bring your awareness to your neck and we're going to make small half circles with the neck so just moving the chin towards your shoulder right on the left any which side you want to start from and then go to the other side gently moving and as you do that try and remember what helps you to relax for some people it's lying down on a nice comfortable bed for other people is being in nature some relax with music or friends and come back to the center with your head place one hand on your heart the other on your stomach and just allow yourself to breathe focusing on your breath and then closing your eyes imagine a place where you feel relaxed [Music] continue to breathe nicely it could be a place in your imagination an imaginary place or it could be a place you've been to before could even be your room where you feel very very good and slowly relaxing your arm sticking them out to the sides and we're going to curl the fingers in so you bring all the fingers in towards the pads so where the finger starts the pad you draw each finger in and gently press down you take thumbs up as if you are asking for a ride on a highway and we're just going to take the thumbs back as far back as you can without straining the shoulders and then back again the other way so back and back and you're releasing tension from the shoulders as we do this continue to breathe just normally maybe just three or four more types [Music] and slowly relax opening up your hands as if you're throwing water from your fingers sending energy out through your hands relaxing the hands sometimes when we are tense we tend to move the hands into fists and we want to relax them moving the fingers out as if you're throwing water from them and just take a quick shoulder roll inhale exhale we do two more of them in here again legs as we relax I hope this video was helpful to you stay connected to yourself and remember to stay calm