Improve your forward Bends in 7 Days. Day 1 Uttanasana with the heels lifted. Iyengar Yoga for Beginners.
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This 7 day yoga practice will stretch your hamstrings and improve your forward bends. Uttanasana, the classic standing forward bend, is practiced here with the hands onto the seat of a chair. This ensures that you keep the alignment in the pose. The heels come onto a yoga plank or a yoga brick, which lifts the quadriceps and knees. In forward bends, you have to keep the front of the legs lifted to keep the hamstring muscles safe. If you don’t have any yoga equipment, a thick book or a folded blanket can be used. Tight hamstrings are often associated with a stiff upper back. And we often see in those who come to yoga class with low back pain, the combination of a long spine and tight hamstrings. Stretching the hamstrings will, over a period of time, alleviate these back problems.
Yoga does provide a physical workout, but more importantly, these programmes are designed to harmonise mind, body and breath. Yoga is not just to increase your flexibility, strength and the general tone of your body; it has the capacity to free your mind, improve your wellbeing and increase your mental resilience. Begin here to create a foundation for a home yoga practice. These free online yoga classes can be practiced at home; although we would always suggest you find a qualified Iyengar Yoga teacher near to you so you can attend a class.
Check out our 30 days of yoga series for sequences to practice every day.
Or look at our Deep Forward Bends series, for more advanced yoga poses
If you are looking for Beginners Yoga, check out our Beginners series
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Subscribe to our channel; if you opt for notifications, you will be advised as new videos are launched. We will be posting videos for all levels but if you have never done yoga before or you want to re-visit some of the basics – then start here! Get out your mat and build the foundation of your own yoga practice with this 1 minute home yoga video. Enjoy!
Stay connected~
For more structured classes:
For booking face to face classes:
Facebook:
Twitter:
For our ebook, “Yoga for the Stiffer Body”:
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Great work now I can bend easly
I like ti😁😁👍👍👍
Amazing explanation, but more amazing thing is you are reply on every question asked on this channel. Thumbs up
Thank you!! another brik o book on the floor!! that's the key. Namaste
My calf muscles hurts when I try to do that will u be able to give any solution to this situation?
can you please tell me for how long I should hold in the bending position and how many times I should repeat it?
So wonderfully explained. Thank you so much
thanska lot for this tip. quick question, how much time does it takes to have it complete? normally. I am flexible and practicing yoga already. will hear it form you.
After doing a stretch routine off and on for many years, I just did it again but in front of a reflection. I saw my very rounded back, and realized it looked nothing like the photo on my routine.
Your video just showed me not only that I was doing it wrong, but how to improve! I'll be following the advice on these videos!
A very good technique for any age group. 7or 17 days are depended upon the individual's body condition.
Respecting you both for introducing and teaching YOGA.
Thank you very much.
How many seconds or minutes should we hold that
When i do like this i don't feel any stretch in my legs. Then how will i improve?
Hi i came to this channel as i was searching for light on yoga by b k s iyenger course online … could u please start a series as per that book it will be really helpful. Thank you . Namaste.