How To Do Bharadvaja's Twist Video

Increase flexibility with the Bharadvaja's yoga twist. Learn how to do the Bharadvaja's yoga pose in this yoga video lesson.

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Sit with both feet to one side
Place right foot on left instep
Twist away from knees

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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. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, Faith is going to help me demonstrate the [INDISCERNIBLE] Asana twist. So the twist is a lot easier to do than it is to say its name, so we're gonna have [INDISCERNIBLE] So we're going to have Faith take her toes over to one side, and she's going to try to lengthen up from her tailbone all the way to the crown of her head. Now, her right foot is going to be placed on her left instep. Good. She's going to inhale and lengthen up through the spine and then rotate away from her knees. This is one option. Now, if you have a little bit more flexibility, you can take your right leg. Faith is going to take her right leg and place it up on her hip, and then if she'd like even more, you can do the twist here. But you'd like even more, she's going to take her hand around, bind, grab onto her foot and then use her hand. She can even bring the back of her hand down to the ground so that she can get a wrist stretch as well. She's going to use her breath to inhale lengthen up through the spine and exhale rotate into the twist. Her head just follows where her body goes. So remember, use your breath, honor your body, take your options and come into whatever stage of the pose that feels best for you.

How to Do Bharadvaja's Twist Video

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