I am loving my stay in Douranenez! I have had one and a half real yoga practices complete with abs. I say "half" because as so often happen in real life, especially around 4 nieces and nephews, there are happy interruptions. I had just completed rounds of sun salutations when it was time to go to our first creperie! My peak pose became a buckwheat crepe with chèvre au miel. I am so active here that yoga seems necessary and also secondary. France seems to wake early and I have relished 7am walks around the harbor and ventures to market for baguettes, beurre, lait cru, and cafe. My butter and bread consumption is at an all time high and if it weren't for all of the hilly hiking and biking I might be in trouble.
Here is a wonderful and short hips and shoulders sequence for the traveler:
• Seated in baddha konasana:
• 2 rounds of shoulder shrugs
• side bend series with neck release 5 breaths each side
• Elbow to knee x 6 rounds
• Straddle or frog lifting through x 6 rounds
• Bridge for 6 breaths
• Turbo dog 5 breaths
• Dolphin pose 5 breaths
• Classical Sun Salutations x 6 rounds alternating between low and high lunges
• Dolphin at the wall or forearm balance 6-8 breaths
B series with 3-pose vignettes (both sides 5 breaths per pose):
• warrior 1 with eagle arms - twisting lunge or twisting warrior - lounge lunge
• warrior 2 - reverse warrior (with neck release) - extended warrior variation (or full interlock bind)
• warrior 2 ostrich - head to ankle prep (with thigh press) - pigeon/twisting pigeon
• Warm down on back (5 breaths each side per pose):
• all on one side: hamstring stretch - ½ happy baby - laying down spinal twist
• Baddha konasana on the back (holding outside edges of the feet with hands or a strap) for 6-8 breaths
• Savasana 5-8 minutes
Here is a wonderful and short hips and shoulders sequence for the traveler:
• Seated in baddha konasana:
• 2 rounds of shoulder shrugs
• side bend series with neck release 5 breaths each side
• Elbow to knee x 6 rounds
• Straddle or frog lifting through x 6 rounds
• Bridge for 6 breaths
• Turbo dog 5 breaths
• Dolphin pose 5 breaths
• Classical Sun Salutations x 6 rounds alternating between low and high lunges
• Dolphin at the wall or forearm balance 6-8 breaths
B series with 3-pose vignettes (both sides 5 breaths per pose):
• warrior 1 with eagle arms - twisting lunge or twisting warrior - lounge lunge
• warrior 2 - reverse warrior (with neck release) - extended warrior variation (or full interlock bind)
• warrior 2 ostrich - head to ankle prep (with thigh press) - pigeon/twisting pigeon
• Warm down on back (5 breaths each side per pose):
• all on one side: hamstring stretch - ½ happy baby - laying down spinal twist
• Baddha konasana on the back (holding outside edges of the feet with hands or a strap) for 6-8 breaths
• Savasana 5-8 minutes
RSS Feed