How To Do The Lion Pose Video

The Lion Pose benefits the face, jaw, mouth and throat by rejuvenating the muscles and tissues in the face. Learn how to do the Lion Pose in this yoga video clip.

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Reduce stress
Bring tongue to roof of mouth
Exhale with hissing sound
Stick out tongue

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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 be demonstrating the lion's pose. One of the reasons for disease is because we hold anger within our body and allow it to fester there. The lion pose is a great way to get your anger out and reduce your stress. So we're going to start in hero's pose, seated on your heels, lengthening up through your spine. Good. She's going to inhale in. She's going to take her tongue to the top of the roof of her mouth. Good. Inhale in and she can look through the third eye. She could close her eyes or she could keep the eyes open. Inhale in with the tongue at the roof of the mouth, and on the exhale, she's going to make a hissing sound, spread her fingers and stick her tongue out. Good. So inhale in, pull the tongue up to the roof of your mouth, get anything that's bothering you, all your stress, somebody that ticked you off, get them right there and exhale. Get rid of it. Good. We're going to do that one more time, pulling the tongue to the roof of the mouth, lengthening the spine. Inhale in and as you exhale, release all that anger, all that stagnant energy, all those toxins. So the lion pose is a very healing pose. It's actually a mudra for your fifth chakra, the Vishuddha chakra or the throat chakra. You want to remember to give that big ahhh and let all your anger go, release all your stress so it can't come back to haunt you later.

How to Do the Lion Pose Video

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