Wednesday on Thursday :) Yoga Today - Relaxation, breathing and animal poses

1. Take 5 breaths when you are sitting cross legged. To help with counting hold up your fist and open one finger at the time and breathe in a big balloon breath. Do it five times until your hand is fully opened. Taking breaths helps us feel calm and relaxed. If we feel anxious and overwhelmed we can take five any time. Counting on your fingers can help but it is not necessary. With practice you will remember to breathe when having a hard time and you will feel better.

2. Cat pose. Remember to arch your back and not to move your hands and legs, the head goes down as well and you can make hyss sound of a cat! Breathe out.

3. Cow pose. Is the reverse of the cat, back goes down head goes up hands and legs are still. Make mooo sound! Breathe in.

4. Cheetah Pose. Lift your right hand and left leg up! Keep on moving you are a cheetah running after the antelope. Change to left hand right leg! Try to be very quiet like a cheetah hunting.

5. Child Pose. Go to rest in the child pose. When we rest our body and especially our head down like that we become more quiet and relaxed. Remember to breathe.

Thank you  Maja!