How To Do A Floor Exercise In Hatha Yoga Video

Hatha yoga increases your strength and flexibility. Learn how to do floor exercises in Hatha yoga with this video about yoga poses and positions.

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Lie down on floor
Extend one leg up to sky
Bring hands to back of knee
Exhale & lift nose to the knee

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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. Really, unless you have mastered the art of levitation, all yoga exercises are done on the floor. But I'm going to give you an example of one lying floor exercise. So, we are going to come lying on the floor. Good. You are going to extend one leg up to the sky. This is going to be a hamstring stretch. You can do all kinds of stretches on the floor. They could be forward bends, back bends, twist postures. But right now, we are just going to show lying on the back and a hamstring stretch. So, I'm getting a really good stretch through the hamstring. As I inhale in, I'm going to bring my hands to the back of the leg and lengthen through the back of the neck. And as I exhale, I'm going to draw my belly button in and lift my nose up to the knee. Now, if you'd like to do this with a little bit more tone for the abdominals, you can lift your leg up, inhale, lengthen the back of the neck, and as you exhale, bring your nose to the knee. If you'd like to make it even a little more difficult, you can extend your arms, inhale in, and as you exhale, lift the nose to the knee. So, this is just one example of one of the many floor exercises you can do in hatha yoga.

How to Do a Floor Exercise in Hatha Yoga Video

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