Sun Salutation

Inhale half way up.

Sun salutation. Guided by brooklyn yoga. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing. Sun salutations are typically performed at the beginning of a yoga routine as a warmup for the whole body. Even more impressively this sequence takes the spine through almost every possible range of motion.

Watch a modified version of sun salutation a to make it more accessible. Exhale high to low plank. This video explores the traditional sun salutation. A simple and effective series of yoga postures that invigorates the whole body.

Standing mountain pose tadasana. To watch other sun salutation variations see surya namaskar b and a modified variation for beginners. Introducing sun salutations the perfect yoga workout sun salutations provide a good cardiovascular workout stretch every part of the body and when used with breath. Each movement is coordinated with the breath.

Plant your palms and step or jump back to a plank position. These postures can be used. Press your palms together in prayer position. A sun salutation also known as surya namaskar is a traditional yoga practice that in today s modern culture is made up of 12 poses that are linked together to form a flow.

Release your arms to either side and forward bend over your legs as if you were doing a swan. Inhale as you extend or stretch and exhale as you fold or contract. Upward salute urdhva hastasana. Inhale to come all the way up to standing arms reach high start of video exhale to fold forward hands through heart center.

This series of moves links your breath and movement with rhythm bringing you into a more. Stand with your feet hip width apart. Inhale as you sweep your arms out to the side and overhead. Gently arch your back.

Surya namaskar the sun salutation is a series of 12 postures performed in a single graceful flow. Sun salutation illustrated step by step instructions uttanasana to flat back. What is a sun salutation. Exhale to a forward fold.

Inhale to a flat back.