How To Do A Sun Salutation Video

The Sun Salutation is one of the most common yoga positions. Learn how to do Sun Salutations in this Vinyasa yoga video.

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Start in Mountain Pose
Inhale & lift arms
Exhale & bend down
Step back to a lunge
Move to Downward Dog
Move to Upward Dog
Repeat

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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. There are many different styles of Sun Salutations. But I'm going to show you one which is one of the older known Sun Salutations. So, we start at the beginning at the front of the mat. You might want to take your feet hip-width distance apart. If you've been practicing for quite sometime, then you can take your toes together. We start in Namaskara, as in a mountain pose, lengthening through your spine. On your inhale, you reach your arms up to extended mountain pose, as you exhale, lifting out of your hips and folding forward. As you inhale, finding extra length in your spine and then stepping your right leg way back to lunge. You want to make sure your knee stays over your ankle and your heart stays lifted, so there's a nice long line, no roundness in the spine. You then step back to down dog, trying to make an upside down V. So, there shouldn't be a lot of weight in your shoulders. Good. From here, knees, chest and chin. Knees, chest and chin. Notice the bottom stays up in the air. Good. The hips come down, roll the shoulders back. Open your heart. Open yourself up to something new with upward dog. Curling your toes, tailbone goes to the sky, down dog. Taking your right foot through your hands and making sure you bring it up, so your knee is right over your ankle. Coming back through to your forward fold, inhale, reaching up to the sky. And exhale, spreading your aura and finding your way back to heart center. So there are many different styles of Sun Salutation. That was just one of them.

How to Do a Sun Salutation Video

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