Hi, I'm Christina and welcome to my channel ChriskaYoga! Today, we will be doing a short
restorative yoga class for rejuvenation
Springtime if you will... starting anew all that fun stuff. This class was created to kind of bring
Yourself back to life so if you're feeling overtired
Kind of like you're ready to bloom into spring
This one is a great one to do
I very much enjoyed doing it myself
So I hope that you enjoy it as well this class that I'm sharing on YouTube is the abbreviated version of the hour-long
restorative class for the same purpose
So I'll be sharing the full one-hour version of this class with my members
And it's a really really great class
And I am so excited to share it with them if you have not yet signed up for my yoga membership site
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just so you know this class does require prompt and I will list all the props that I used right here and
you can substitute the props if you don't have them and all the
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Class which is once a week, so if you're ready. Let's get started so
We're gonna have a seat
cross your shins
Flex your feet under your knees sit up tall and the two sits bones at the bottom of your pelvis and then take your strap
We're going to loop the strap so that there is a loop that is the same distance as your shoulders
If you're using a yoga strap follow these instructions if not you might have to do a makeshift
Tying a knot and kind of adjusting as you go if you're using a belt or a strap
Another type of strap substitute, but anyway
I have my yoga strap here taking the end of the strap placing it in the two buckles the two metal buckles
and I'm pulling it through and then I'm taking the end of the strap and pulling it back through just one of the
metal loops
And then I can tighten it
pulling the end of the strap
And tightening your loop, and then you're going to measure the distance of your shoulders, so you can put your arms through it I?
have fairly wide shoulders, so
This works for me
So once you have your loop that is
shoulders distance
We're going to do some side bending so place the thumb in the strap the thumbs
And then you're going to on an inhale lift your arms up
Your arms are raised your whole side body on both of your sides are lengthened
You're sitting evenly on your sits bones at the bottom of your pelvis on the floor and then from here take another inhale lengthen up
And on your exhale tilt it over to the left
Keep that right hip on the floor as you tilt to the left stretching the whole right side body
And on another inhale
Lift back up we'll take that on the other side
inhale
lengthen up
exhale tilt over to the right
Keep the left hip on the floor lengthen the left side of your body your arms are still energized
and
Come back up. We'll repeat that on both sides, so take an inhale lengthen up exhale tilt over to the left
stretching the right side of your body
Breathing here
Inhale come back up and switch to the other side lengthen your body as you tilt over to the right
And slowly come back up
Release your hands from the strap and from here set your strap down you can put it on the side for now
we'll come back to it in just a moment and we're going to take your hands place them behind you on the
Fingertips, so your hands are like little teepees behind you the backs of your hands are facing behind you palms are facing forward
We're going to take an inhale use your hands on the ground to press yourself up lengthen up and then from here
We're going to open the chest up towards the ceiling
Reaching the heart center up looking up open the shoulders wide
Hold here for a moment and feel your shoulders
Lengthening apart they're going in opposing directions away from each other opening the chest
And slowly release out of your arch and bring your arms back in front of you
And then we're going to give ourselves a hug
So I'm gonna inhale bring your arms out to the side
And then cross your right arm under your left
And then bring your hands to wrap around near your shoulder blades
I guess this depends on the length of your arms
But for me I can reach all the way to my shoulder blades so wherever you can reach just they're going in that direction
you're giving yourself a hug opening the chest or the
Shoulders behind you the upper back area
So just hold here for a moment
We nearly try and bring those fingertips together, so they're not going to touch each other unless you have extremely long arms
But try and touch your fingertips behind do as much as you can or as far as you can
So hold here for one more moment
And then release yourself from the hog
And we'll take that on the other side we can also now uncross our chins and switch the cross of your shins
So crossing the opposite leg you have in front
Flex your feet under your knees once again and set up to all adjust yourself
And then this side we're going to place the arms out to the side, and then bring the left arm under the right this time
I'm just hold here as you hug yourself
Try and touch your fingertips together bringing them together energetically as much as you can they won't actually touch
Breathe here for a moment
And
Release your hands
From your hug from here. We are going to set our strap off to the side. We won't be using it anymore for this class
And then we're going to come to lying down on the back for a first restorative pose of the class
For this we've been using a block one yellow block if you
Have a cork yoga block I recommend
Maybe trying a pillow instead or a bolster, maybe a folded blanket instead
I'm using a foam yoga block because it's a little bit softer, but
Find what works best for you in this moment?
I will show you the pose and then you can evaluate and decide what you'd like to use so I
Have my my block here. I'll set it off to the side for a moment come to a lying flat on my back
With my knees bent feet flat on the floor knees bent heels in towards the hips
And then I'm going to take my block lifting my hips up towards the ceiling
And then I'm going to place the block right underneath my sacrum
So your sacrum is that disc shaped bone all the way at the bottom of your spine
It's what holds the pelvic bones
Together behind you at the spine place the block right underneath the sacrum here
And then this is where we're going to remain for quite a few deep breaths once again
If this is uncomfortable for your spine, I recommend removing the block or whatever you're using
trying something a bit softer, so you can use a
So you can use maybe a couch pillow a bed pillow even although that might be too soft
Just play around with it. See what works best for you
So we're here
keep the knees pointed up towards the ceiling and then you can place your hands down by your sides palms facing up and
Look up towards the ceiling so your want to be facing the ceiling once you're settled close your eyes
Begin to deepen your breath
Breathing in and out through your nose
Quiet the mind by focusing your attention on your breath
Taking note of how the breath feels as it's moving in and out of your body
Throughout this process just
if another thought comes into your mind
That's totally normal
Just acknowledge the thought and then gently set it to the side
And remain here
You
Bring some slight motion back into your body gently moving your hands
engage your abdominal muscles, so squeeze your abdominals and
as you do this lift your hips off the block and
Gently set the block off
to the side
Okay here we're going to grab our yoga blanket
I'll sit up so that we can set the blanket up
So you have your blanket here
some folding mine in a square shape
Placing the square down so I could roll the blanket
You know I think this is too thick to be honest so
I'm going to make it into a rectangle and
Then roll the blanket
And you can play with the height of your roll depending on your comfort level. We're going to be placing this roll
I'll turn this
this way
So with restorative yoga with all these props that we use we have to play around with it sometimes
You can see what works best
So I'm gonna have a small ish height of my role here, and then what I'm going to do is lie down
on top of it and place the
Roll so the you're laying on top of the roll for the ladies
It's right at the bra line so where the back of your bra is
That's where you want to place the roll for the men if you don't really know imagine. You're wearing a bra and imagine
That's where it would be it's right underneath your shoulder blades
So the little bones at the back of your shoulder the tips of it. It's right underneath that line so you're here
Once you find your need to move this
Okay
so
once you find your position
bring your arms to a
cactus shape
So that means bend your arms up palms are facing the ceiling and from here
I'm going to straighten my legs you can leave your legs bent as they were if you have low back
Sensitivity, but if this is comfortable for you straighten your legs relax your feet relax your legs completely and once you find
your comfortable position here
once again look up towards the ceiling close your eyes and
Just as we did in the previous pose begin to focus on your breathing
You can try something else if the last
Pose you
Focused on the pathway of the breath, maybe this trap this time you can try focusing on
The way your belly rises and falls as you breathe or you can count to your breath
Can count backwards from 10, and then repeat whatever helps you to focus on the breathing
Try something new see what works best for you in this moment every moment is different
Every time we come back to a pose it's different so try something else or try
Something you've done before and you liked and just remain here
You
From here bring some slight motion back into your body once again moving your hands, and your feet gently your arms and your legs
Bring your arms back in towards your body and then engage your abdominals as you roll over to the right
You want to gently roll off of the roll?
Be sure that you're really engaging those abdominal muscles to activate the opposite
muscles that we were just
stretching here so the
abdominals support the back muscles the back muscles support the
Abdominal because they aren't opposing each other on opposite sides of your body the front in the back
So when we feel sometimes a deep stretch in one area?
It's good to engage the muscles in the other area for support to prevent things like
spasms and all that fun stuff that might happen so
That's like. That's why whenever I do a back bend or a deeper back bend
I like to engage the abdominal muscles there eventually afterwards
So anyway side note what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my elbow blanket in
The square shape and then roll it into a quite a thick log shape
And I'm going to take that roll place it underneath the knees
Relax the feet and gently lower myself down onto
the yoga mat on the ground
Then from there I have my bolster here, so it's quite
weighted and
Then I'm going to take the bolster and place it right on top of my pelvis
Gently press the bolster into your pelvis this calms the body and the nervous system down
And allows us to just relax a little bit deeper
So whatever you have if you want to use a blanket instead of a bolster on your pelvis. It's up to you find
Whatever works, and then once you're settled to bring your hands down by your sides turn your palms up towards the ceiling
Close your eyes
Begin to deepen your breath once again
Breathing through the nose
and remain
Here in your shavasana
You
You
You
You
Bring some slight motion back into your limbs to your hands and your feet
When you're ready remove the bolster from your pelvis set it off to the side
Gently roll yourself off of the blanket
Stay on the right side of your body with your knees bent
Arm underneath your head for support
Use your hands to help you come up to a seated position cross your shins
Flex your feet under your knees bring your hands to your legs
Close your eyes
Take a deep breath in
and
a deep breath out
Take a moment once again to say thank you to yourself
Having a moment of gratitude for taking the time out of your busy life
To practice yoga to do what you need to do to be healthy to relax yourself to take care of yourself
Just say, thank you to you
Bring your hands to me at the center of your chest bow your head to your fingertips namaste
Thank you so much for joining me for this class. I really hope you enjoyed it
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