This summer I challenge you to spend 10 minutes or less a day to support your yoga practice with some drills! Starting NOW!!!!
June: Sock Drills
- grab some socks and maybe some yoga blocks, no mat needed, hardwood floor preferable or any surface you can slide on in socks.
*If you wear toe rings, you might want to take them off before you get started for the second two drills. If your surface is uncomfortable on your feet but you are able to slide, you can place a hand towel or small blanket under your foot/feet.
Malasana swing through and back
Start from a squatting position. Bring your hands to the floor or on blocks about shoulder width apart in front of your feet. Inhale lean into the hands, cross the shins and bring your body through your legs landing back into the squat you started from. Exhale, prepare to repeat. Give yourself plenty of space to go forward 3 times. Then place your hands on the floor or on blocks shoulder width apart outside of your pelvis and go backwards 3 times.
Repeat crossing the shins the other way.
Plank with alternating crescent legs
Start in plank. Slide your right foot to the outside of your right hand into a lunge. Keep the back leg in a strong plank position. As you bring the right foot back to plank, slide the left to the outside of the left foot. Find a breath count that works for you. Repeat as many times as you think you should based on how your body feels, working to build up your reps.
This next one works best if you also put a towel or small blanket under your feet.
Plank with updog feet, slide feet to hands
Start in a plank position on the tops of your feet, like in updog. Inhale, slide your feet as close as you can towards your hands. Exhale slide back. Repeat as many times as you think you should based on how your body feels, working to build up your reps.
As a bonus I’m also challenging you to hang everyday for the next 3 months.
Enjoy and stay tuned for next month's challenges!
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