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Have you ever ever taken a yoga class with sequencing so artistic that it doesn’t even really feel like yoga anymore?
Whereas I like to sneak in just a few shapes that deviate from conventional yoga asana, it’s vital to me as a trainer to make it possible for my sequencing remains to be very a lot yoga at its core and never calisthenics or dance.
The trick to navigating artistic sequencing is to deal with the transitions. It’s all about weaving collectively even probably the most foundational postures in shocking but seamless methods, permitting for a circulation that feels intuitive fairly than clunky or compelled.
As with most components of yoga, one of the simplest ways to enhance sequencing and transitions is thru observe.
A Inventive Yoga Sequence for the Peak Your Apply
This sequence is supposed to be practiced after a prolonged heat up. You’ll wish to be sure to heat up the hamstrings in addition to the hips and observe some twists. Tremendous Soldier and/or Baby Grasshopper are each such massive postures, they are often peak poses of the category.
Standing Break up to Tremendous Soldier
This Standing Split variation turns down the stability and turns up the hamstring and quad opening by enjoying with the location of the arms and toes.
How To: Begin in Standing Break up together with your arms on the mat and your left leg lifted. As you inhale, raise your left toes increased to have interaction the again of your leg. Draw the crown of your head towards your proper foot, elongating the backbone.
Exhale into Tremendous Soldier by actively drawing your left heel towards your proper glute. Place your proper hand on prime of your left foot to carry your heel nearer. Stroll your left hand or fingertips out to the aspect to create a wider heart of gravity and make it easier to stability. Proceed to carry your chest towards your thigh.
Pause right here as you’re taking a breath in. Work your left knee additional skyward and level your toes in Tremendous Soldier. (It’s tremendous in case your knee opens to the left aspect, opening the hip). Lengthen your neck as you press into your proper massive toe for stability.
Tremendous Soldier to Child Grasshopper
You’ll be able to both problem your self to maintain the connection between your hand and foot as you progress between the postures or you’ll be able to launch your grip as wanted and reconnect after the transition.
How To: Proceed to press into your proper foot and left hand, urgent your higher physique in opposition to your thigh. Bend your proper knee and kick your left foot straight out to the left aspect as you flex your foot and bend your proper elbow as you’ll in Chaturanga. You can be hovering above the bottom together with your chest tilted barely ahead in Child Grasshopper.
Breathe in right here, ensuring you’re urgent into your factors of contact on the bottom (your proper foot and left hand).The raise of your pelvic ground ought to make it easier to really feel mild as you hover in area.
Child Grasshopper to Half Lord of the Fishes Twist
How To: Decrease your self to the mat and land as softly as doable onto your left bum cheek. Draw your left heel towards your proper hip and place it on the mat, adopted by your proper hand. Hold your proper leg straight or bend your knee and convey your proper heel towards your left hip. Hook your left elbow exterior your proper knee and preserve a protracted backbone as you look over your again shoulder in Half Lord of the Fishes.
Pause for a breath in and gently nudge your proper hip pointer ahead as you draw the precise shoulder backward. Preserve an open chest and lengthy backbone as you twist.
Half Lord of the Fishes to Counter Twist
How To: Unwind your higher physique so that you simply hold closely over to your left aspect. The extra you stroll your arms away from the legs and to the left, the deeper the counter twist will probably be.
Inhale right here, barely puffing up the area between your shoulder blades as you press into your tented fingertips. Let your head and neck be as heavy as doable.
Counter Twist to Vast-Legged Standing Ahead Bend
How To: Proceed to comply with momentum towards the left aspect as you carry your weight into your arms and unwind your legs, pivoting in your toes and turning towards your left to come back standing together with your legs straight and vast aside in Wide-Legged Standing Forward Bend. Seize the outer ankles to fold extra deeply by means of the thighs, permitting the higher physique to work energetically towards the legs.
Ensure that your toes are barely pointed in and your heels out, permitting for a micro bend within the knees as you fold with a protracted backbone. — Kayla Nielsen
Proceed to observe your sequencing abilities in Nielsen’s three-part sequence, Teacher Boot Camp.
