Sun Salutation

Each movement is coordinated with the breath.

Sun salutation. Press your palms together in prayer position. Inhale as you sweep your arms out to the side and overhead. Sun salutations are typically performed at the beginning of a yoga routine as a warmup for the whole body. Plant your palms and step or jump back to a plank position.

Even more impressively this sequence takes the spine through almost every possible range of motion. Inhale as you extend or stretch and exhale as you fold or contract. Inhale half way up. Guided by brooklyn yoga.

Surya namaskar or sun salutation is a series of postures that warms strengthens and aligns the entire body. Release your arms to either side and forward bend over your legs as if you were doing a swan. Sun salutation illustrated step by step instructions uttanasana to flat back. Introducing sun salutations the perfect yoga workout sun salutations provide a good cardiovascular workout stretch every part of the body and when used with breath.

A simple and effective series of yoga postures that invigorates the whole body. A sun salutation also known as surya namaskar is a traditional yoga practice that in today s modern culture is made up of 12 poses that are linked together to form a flow. Surya namaskar the sun salutation is a series of 12 postures performed in a single graceful flow. Upward salute urdhva hastasana.

Stand with your feet hip width apart. This video explores the traditional sun salutation. Watch a modified version of sun salutation a to make it more accessible. It serves as an all purpose yoga tool kind of like a hammer that s also a saw and a screwdriver if you can imagine such a thing.

Exhale high to low plank. What is a sun salutation. Sun salutation a surya namaskara a 1. Inhale to a flat back.

To watch other sun salutation variations see surya namaskar b and a modified variation for beginners. Gently arch your back. Inhale to come all the way up to standing arms reach high start of video exhale to fold forward hands through heart center. Exhale to a forward fold.

This series of moves links your breath and movement with rhythm bringing you into a more.