Yoga was great this morning. I did my regular AM Yoga with Rodney Yee (I ripped
the DVD to my laptop) and then I sat down and wrote out the Sun
Salutation so I could memorize it and finally being building my own personal
practice. The Sun Salutation (now that I can actually do it on my own) really
is the best place to start if you want to try Yoga. The graphic above corresponds
to one half of a Sun Salutation, it takes two full circuits leading first with the
right foot and then with the left foot to complete one Sun Salutation:
- Being in mountain pose.
- Raise your arms half-way and bring your hands to Namaste.
- Raise your hands over your head into a back bend.
- Fold forward into a standing forward bend.
- Take the right foot back to a lunge.
- Left foot back to plank position.
- Scoop your head and chest through the caterpillar to the cobra pose.
- Turn your toes under and come up to down-ward facing dog.
- Bring the right foot forward to the lunge.
- Step the left foot forward to standing forward bend.
- Swoop up (I love that phrase) to a back bend.
- Return to mountain pose.
Here are some other links to Sun Salutation descriptions:
Illustrated Sun Salutation, Yoga
Site, a whole herd more at Google.