How To Do Twisting Asanas Video

Twisting yoga asanas open your hips and joints. Learn how to do twisting asanas to increase your flexibility with this video.

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Sit tall & lengthen your spine
Inhale
Exhale & rotate body to the side

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. Twisting asanas are a great way to get a new perspective in life. You actually get to look and see where you've been as well as where you're going. Twist; ring all the excess fluid out of the spine. They realign your spine. So if I was going to just--there's many twisting asanas but for just a simple, easy seated position, sukhasana twist, you want to lengthen up through your spine, always trying to draw the length out of your spine. And then as you exhale, rotate into the twist thereby massaging your abdominal organs, inhale lengthening, lengthening through the spine. The core moves the least. And then as you move up, the spine, it begins to twist a little bit more as you get up to your chest. So you want to stay relaxed and use your breath to inhale in and then as you exhale, you rotate. And that's true whether you're doing a seated twist, a standing twist, a back bending twist, a balancing twist, any kind of twist you're doing. You always want to lengthen your spine and then rotate. It's going to release the excess fluid from your spine, allow you twist the issues out of your tissues and get a new perspective on your life.

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