Warm Up Sequences

Shoulder Tension Falls

by Jennifer Brilliant | Oct 20, 2008 | Teaching Sequence, Uncategorized, Warm Up Sequences

To bring about an ease of movement and grace in our bodies, most of us can afford to release some extra tension from our shoulders. Too much restriction around our shoulders gives our nervous system an emergency signal to tense for fight or flight. It impedes our...

Initiating Our Movement

by Jennifer Brilliant | Oct 13, 2008 | Teaching Sequence, Warm Up Sequences

While walking down the street in our daily life, we must use our eyes to look before turning a corner. Our head leads the way. No wonder we end up with our heads in front of us. We are most often following our eyes and our mental center. But in yoga we have an...

Use Pressure to Open

by Jennifer Brilliant | Oct 5, 2008 | Teaching Sequence, Warm Up Sequences

My work this week included decompressing the spine at all the points along the way where collapse is likely: between the lumbar and the sacrum, between the low floating rib line and the lumbar spine, between C7 and the ribs, between the skull and the neck. I have also...

Snake and Slither – Keeping it Simple

by Jennifer Brilliant | Sep 17, 2008 | Teaching Sequence, Warm Up Sequences

Here is a warm up that is quite simple, with nothing too fancy. It doesn’t feel quite right to me to tell people where to breathe in and where to breathe out. So as I teach the movements of this warm up sequence slowly there is time for several breaths in which...

Crank It Up

by Jennifer Brilliant | Sep 5, 2008 | Teaching Sequence, Warm Up Sequences

Here is a warm up for you to try. Some more intro text. Maybe a few lines. And a few more. I think you’ll like this because… See if when you’re doing the cow, you can feel your chest widen. Sukhasana (Crossed Legs) Crank It: Circle right shoulder 4X,...

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