So I just feel like moving kind of high energy class. Got a Christmas party, do a little ab work before I got Steph myself. We're going to start sitting up. In fact, we're going to drop our knees open today, so just give yourself a moment sitting tall right above your sit bones just to hold gently onto your shins and allow your arms to assist you in growing longer, perhaps taller or perhaps a lighter feel. As you breathe in and out the shoulders, gently dropping down the back and now the shoulders drop down. The top of the head reaches lightly upwards, creating a sense of buoyancy in the spine. From here on our next exhale, so let's inhale. Now we're going to just tilt the pelvis, so exhale round the back, the low back, just flexing pretty small.
Move inches are using the, I'm moving the lumbar spine. Inhale. Restack the spine growing even taller, still just sitting up straight. Exhale, draw the ribs down, the pubic bone towards the ribs, flexing deeply in the spine and heel. We sit up. Can I do that rocking motion just a few more times. Using your arms as little as you need to or as much as you want to. And hilly girl, the spine. Talk, moving lightly.
So not forcing any movements, looking for ease in our movements, a lots and lots of ab work. Maybe even getting a stretch in the back there and do that one more time. Exhale as we curve the spine. Looking down. Inhale as we extend the spine sitting up. Let's let go. Taking it a little bit bigger. Press the feed into one another. XL.
Curve down onto the mat and he'll feel the low back on the ground. Start Your exhale. Bring the shoulders over the pelvis and neo restack the spine. Again, you could use your arms if you wanted to. You can just keep him out in front of you. Here we go again. Rolling. Inhale to pause. Exhale to roll. Rollback. Huh?
So just like we did in the very beginning, we initiate through the abdominals. We let the bones of the pelvis slide out of the way in. He'll do XL and aris spring the spine forward to restack. Just a couple more times like that. Exhale, rolling back. Staying at the bottom. This time we take our arms back kind of narrow to an Xcel to bring them down, feel and see the abdominal wall pulled down as the arms stretch back overhead.
Exhale to bring them down. One more to go. Inhale, stretch back. Exhale, reach forward. Inhale to pause and XL to curl forward.
We're squeezing the legs. Inhale, arms. Exhale, arms forward. We're rolling up. Let's use that same and sitting tall two more times. Exhale as we rocked back, moving the pelvis out of the way, letting the fee come together. Inhale, arms just float back. Exhale, they come forward. We continue excelling as we pressed the bottoms of the feet together and sit tall. Just one more here. Exhale to go down. Bringing the knees together and he'll be on. Exhale. The arms forward, the knees open. We curl the spine forward, sitting tall at the top.
We bring the knees together. Just situate your feet so that there's hip distance apart. We're going to roll down for a pelvic curl so the arms are straight out in front. We just articulate the spine. This time going all the way to the ground. Head goes down, arms are down, working the upper back to keep the arms long. Inhale, XLF. Peel the spine, so working through the backs of the legs, pressing the arms into the mat for a little bit of upper back work. Exhale, let the chest come through the arms. Articulate, manipulate the spine right down into the ground. Inhale at the bottom.
Exhale as you curve the spine up. Send energy through the knees, past the toes, energy through the fingertips, past the heels or towards the heels. Exhale to curl. Paying attention to the details in the movement. The activation. Here we go again of the hamstrings, the activation of the upper back, the activation of the backs of the arms. Everything else can potentially be relaxed. Feel the neck, relaxing the face, relaxing. We're doing two more exhale. We rolling and he'll to pass. Xcel to roll down, warming up the spine.
Last one here. Excelling a pressing to the backs of the legs and heel. We pause. Exhale. We come down. Once you tell him when touches, step your feet all the way together for a little spine twist. Just flip the palm so they face up the let's drop the knees towards me. The foot away from me. He's going to lift off the ground so the knees stay connected.
There's our inhale. Exhale. We drag the body back. Inhale as we take it over to the other side. And Xcel, we come back. So without lifting the legs and knee or can we find a sense of depth and we go deeper. Drawing the belly back away from the knees, moving fluidly through each position. Exhale back two more times around in here to exhale and inhale. The knees are totally lined up. It's his pelvis that moves across and an exhale.
Feel that on the inhale you can perhaps create intensity in your position and then exhale working down. So lots of work in both directions. Stretching the back away from the fise. Exhale to lift. Inhale to pass and Xcel to work the way down. One more time. We're going to hold at the top here. This inhale, reach behind the thighs. Exhale, look for more. Let go and he'll just the arms behind the head and back when your arms go behind you. Next time. See if you can't touch your fingers together.
Your son's in first fingers and then separate them to push down and he'll raise them up behind you. Exhale, press them down. No, raise him up behind you. Touch the thumbs and fingers. Exhale, press down. One more to go and he'll raise him up. Exhale, press down. The body stays lifted as the arms. Once again, travel overhead reenter, locked the fingers, but the hands behind the head and with that lower down, come and straight back up. Exhale, warming up. Bring the hands behind the size. Guide yourself maybe more forward, maybe a little higher, definitely more active in the ABS. Let go. Arms overhead, hands behind the head for an rotation to me. Exhale. Inhale, travel through center. Keep the lower body still feel a sense as going forward.
As you turn, inhale back. Pelvis is still on the ground and he's continued to face up. Pri we reach across the body with that opposite rib cage and across the body with the opposite ribcage. One more time, both sides back to center, across to the side. Back to center. Hold Center, reach the hands behind the thighs. Once again. Once again, just curl a little higher. Go and straight again.
We're going to take the hands back behind the head. As you turn towards me again, pick up the leg you're turning to its exhale and lightly touch and exhale. Now we've added more stabilization challenge here, so can you move the legs and the trunk without letting the pelvis rock back and forth and squeeze the inner thighs, especially the NFV that lifting like this is the last one. Deming back ever side. Coming back. Reach the arms forward. Pick up one leg, pick up the other leg. They're together now.
Lower the head and chest down. Feel the abdominals in the ribs on the ground. Exhale coming up for the a hundred we lift, we stretch the legs. Inhale and it's one, two, three, four, five. Inhale and press the ribs down and feel them expand.
And the last one, x one, two, three, four, five
Lift that hip off the ground so you cross the body, you circle it around and catch at the top and it's Xcel across, down, around. And just because we are lifting the pelvis doesn't mean we're not focusing on the stability in our bodies. Take that stretch to the hip is only hip comes off two more as the lake circles away from you. Pull up on the APPS to support. Last time we pause at the top and we're going the other way. It's in here and exhale. Let's make it a two breath.
Breathe in and breathe out as a lay comes across feeling freedom in the half and yes fi uh, last two. One more. Bring the leg up. Drop the hip down. Bend the knee. Stretch towards me with your body. Reaching the opposite arm. A mountain away. Come back to center. When you're ready. Stretch that leg down on the ground. Then the other knee, bring it up. Stretch it to the sky.
Flex that top foot. Point the bottom one. Here we go. Pick up the entire side of the pelvis. Circle the leg down around and catch at the top. The bigger movement. Lots of precision work involved and your reach away on Po a drop. Reach away. And Paul last three and x in, Oh this one. Cause at the top we inhale, take lake to the side
So find that good solid position. Last three and and on. Bringing the leg up. Drop the backside of the pelvis, bend the knee, reach across the knee and stretch and let's come back to center. Stretching both legs down along the ground, both arms overhead for a Rola. Breathe in. As you pick the chest up, the arms reach forward or they can stay up near your ears. You decide reaching up. Keep the shoulders over the hips as the abdominals. Pull back into the spy. Exhale we rolled down again, working through the lower back, the upper back. The head comes down. Inhale and exhale. Curl the spine.
Breathing out as you roll down, feeling fluidity in the spine. Each movement connecting into the one that follows in the one that proceeds it. Challenging our minds as well as our bodies to keep the abdominals in cage. On the inhale.
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And here's four, four, three, three, two, two, one, one, both knees bent, hands behind the head. We're going to do the Chris Cross. Let's turn towards me. Take a hand, reach across the knee, saw up towards the elbow, and then change your alternate arms and you change reach and are using that free arm to help you increase your height. Perhaps. Definitely helping you increase your rotation. Being specific with the angle of the legs, meaning don't let them just flop. It's that our hitch and our age and let's do four and four and three.
Can we go? Oh, we did it. Yes. Good for us. Take a stretch forward,
Allow the chest to begin lifting, stretching the arms overhead, pressing the spine. Oh, Deborah, that's good. We do look good to just pick up your head a tiny bit. Excellent. Let's reach forward and up on the same breath and an e. L. X. Here we go. We're rounding the spine. Inhale, finding extension, letting the movement be fluid. We Excel to move back forward and up through the spine.
Inhale Taller. Exhale fo pulling the ribs back, the abdominals back the shoulders. Stay down through, out. Inhale, back extension and exhale. Taking it back to bring it up. How about one more? Excelling forward. Inhaling, let the bat grow. Law Holding here, we just reach the arms back the chest forward. It's tiny and tiny thinking about reaching the top of the head into the fingertips so it's not so much forward, but law and last three and two and one. We're going to sit up and drop the arms to the sides for the saw. Turn towards me. Inhale. Exhale, sod down. Inhale, lengthen the spine and exhale back to center and how we turn x.
So we re inhale, lengthen to come and again a big rotation and a big flection. I'm a left and back and pull the abdominals into the spine. As the spine reaches forward, pay attention to the stability in your pelvis. Pay attention to the length of the spine as you stretch forward and back. Use both arms to assist the rotation. It reach away from one another, but it's like a push, pull feeling and reach to the left and I'm bringing it home.
Let's do three more. Here it is, and we go and we lengthen and we come back and we turn and go down and home. Last one for the night are reaching
And then inhale two x lengthening out through the waist, sitting down in here, keeping shoulder stability and we're each to press through the hips here. It's all about opening through the front of the legs that gets so tight in that seated position. This is our last one on both slides. Lightly reaching through that upper arm
That little la La was at the second exhale and inhale and grow tall too and and tall. Shoot and and stretch to come home. I don't think working through the ways, it's all about working from the right place here. Feet are nice and still hips are nice and still and back. Reach one more around reach and across.
Coming back.
Tuck the tailbone just ever so slightly impressed the feet into the ground as you arise. Be using the backs of the legs. Inhale, we sit down, the chest reaches forward and exhale we come up.
I'm coming down. I don't know
And then see if you can stabilize and support and just let go. Keeping the leg exactly where it is. We're going to do a double time now, so it's a double pulse and untouchable pose and we got the leg towards the body. Bottom leg is anchoring into the ground and three I'm going to do five,
Here's one and hamstring three, rotate to the leg in the air
Inhale and exhale to come down again, rolling up to the top and been changed at the top this time. So we lift, we're going to stay up at the top, but pick up the right leg, keep it bent. You have just 90 degrees and then peel the Spine de rolling down. Tried to land evenly on the pelvis. So basically I'm doing like a one legged pelvic curl here. Rolling up. I'm articulating, yes, act definitely.
And let's just do two more
Rolling up with both legs for the shoulder bridge, so we roll that. We're going to keep the left leg on the mat when we get there. We're going to bring the right leg up in space. Stretch it to the ceiling. Let's go together. It's down and back and exhale and inhale. Legs swings free in the hip but still works, especially on the way down last five and for long strong arms three, two, one. Lift it up, fold it in, place it down.
Stabilize or restabilize or re situate whatever you need to do to feel. S even in squared. Have the like floats to this guy. Here we go. It's down and to continue to just to check in with your arms and shoulders.
Inhale to hold and melt all the way down into the ground. All right. I pick up carefully, one leg at a time, heading into the rollover, followed by lots of stuff, so stretch the legs up out. Inhale, the vertical XL rollover. Inhale as you flex, separate, lower and exhale as you peel the spine down, enjoying the stretch to the legs through the back. As the tailbone touches the toes point, we circle them together and Haleigh and XL rural. Inhale. As we flex and separate the abdominals, draw deeper.
As we lower the legs and we lower the spine down. Boom by bone points. Circle, touch, lift and up. Yeah, neo flex. Separate, open, and Dan, we're going to do three of those in reverse so we point and separate and lift. Roll the leg, squeeze together, and we lower them in the ruled. Pressing the arms into the mat. Points of fee, lower to separate. Rolling over.
I'm tell him those draw deeper. As the legs come together, the feet lower. We roll down.
Roll down that side of your spine. As you exhale, continue excelling as the leg circle around to the opposite hip. Roll up that side and bring it back home. Inhale, as you exhale, as we roll down, it's a long XO, mega last, all the way up and center. So the inhale happens as this spine twists. Exhale as we roll down, circle around, roll and bring it center. Let's do it one more time.
In the on your vertical position, Xcel peel down. We're going to turn this into a teaser, so so you're not shocked. Once the tailbone comes down, allow the legs to lower slightly roll half through the spine.
Forward the legs away from you. Exhale, roll down, get the back fully down. Start to lower the legs, lift that curve of the spine
Place your feet down and roll all the way down onto the mat. Taking the arms overhead. I'm do another
Nice hand dad changing it. Just a little bit starts to say, so we roll out as we look for that vertical shape we find it. And then we're going to turn open out towards me. Reach up, roll back, arms go down and then back. One more time like that. Rolling up, raising the arms, opening the body, all reaching up and rolling all the way back down. Once the arms go overhead, let's drop that knee down. Stretch the opposite leg forward to have both picking up the chest or rolling and rolling. Dad, you could always walk down your legs, a slide down your legs if you wanted even, you know, just to look for more control.
I came for that flat back at the top and here comes the rotation in here. Annex. Yeah, and NRH and then turn open the eyes, raise the arms, feel the spine extent. Exhale, roll back. And
And last time here left.
We're going to do both. Breathing into the lower back and then when you're ready, just uncross the legs. Recross and stretch forward. Okay. And then just not turn in this direction. Just gonna do a quick hip flexor stretch. So I'm into the Mermaid position or the z shape or there.
Okay. The, this hand here, I'm going towards my pointed knee. We're just pressing up. So just push the knees into the ground, pick the hips up, stay there for a moment, opening through the hip, the the side, drawing the bottom shoulder down. Let's sit the hips down. Just bend forward. Keep the back arm back and then start to use the backs of your legs, the hip extensors, picking up the hip, pressing up into that stretch. Oh, I'm just sitting back down. Let your spine bend forward. Let's bring the arm around this time and just stretch to the opposite side
And then coming up from here. Just slide down onto your side.
Exhale, inhale as you pass through center
The bottom line is three. We're going to, we're just going to do five in each direction today.
Well let's just take that leg to the back. Reach it away. Reach to stop arm forward. Find a stretch. Hmm. Bend your knees, help yourself up. Swing your legs around in front of you or your hand. Find you. Stretch it like that. Cause he just did this one.
How many to me to do it two times in a row. The Cork scrap or the hip circle. Sorry, I'm alternating sides. I've got my hands away. Far back in my chest lifted and my trunk pretty darn still. Let's just do two more. Reaching down and po op. It's that up that Ma matters and pull up.
That was to bend your knees. Lift up, slide over onto your other side and for the double leg lift, the side lifts.
Okay. And then just help yourself up onto your hands and knees. We're headed through the front support position into the leg pull front. So here it is sliding one leg back or both legs back, but making sure you're strong in your center. Let's start by drawing shoulders down by finding a sense of energy through feed and head point. The right foot. Lift the right leg straight up without changing the spine. Just up and down.
So plank positions like upstretched too with Arabesque, reaching away and reaching. Tip the Mat, three-mile, reaching out and up, sending energy away from the body as well as into the air. With that free swinging way too.
Taking a break for the wrist break. Full Stop I suppose. Okay, we've got one more side to go. I move my hands where that it's not slippery. Okay, so friends support Domino's hand. Strong shoulders pointed the left foot. It just reaches out and down and up and down and God hands. And here comes to the side. It goes out and in the body stays. We're real stuff.
So just bring it out as far as you can without leaning. Last two and one more. Let the lay come to the ground for a moment and then it will reach us pressing that topic up. And then it just tips the mat as you come through front support and it reaches back and it reaches down the last two times and last one. And then tucking the toes under. Just going to bend our elbows to Laura selves to the ground.
If you needed to come to your knees to get there with safe shoulders, that would be great. What do I want to do here? Let's go into the single leg position and do something slightly different today. This exercise, so bringing the chest through the arm or pulling up on the African, take the right leg, only a external rotation in the hips. Just lift it up and down. So just challenging the hip center out and, and they're both turned out and that you'll feel like an opening in the cross, the front of the pelvis. That way let's go into a circle.
So it goes up slightly out and down and up. And two, by the way, there's a lot of work happening in the upper back, a lot of work happening in the app. And the last one, I'm gonna circle the other way around and down out around three and four. Yeah, good question. I'm trying to keep my pelvis totally still, totally still. And it's gonna want to walk around. So that's going to do too. That's going to help you determine how high your leg goes. So if I'm way up here and how much tourney you can do, so think flat hips, stomach lifted. We're going to change sides. Now what do we do for us? Hip extension switch is out and back.
So it's really like a pretty significant hamstring glute contraction that you're, that you're in for here in the last two. Oh, by the way, I'm keeping my other leg strong and pushing it down. Um, here's our last one. And here's our circles. It's up and down. And so it's like I'm not really moving my leg very much. Making about like the tennis ball sized circle. And then let's go the other way and to recheck in with your back mouth, your upper back muscles too.
And, and then down.
Allow them to reach overhead. They just float
So we're just looking for a little flection in the lower back there. He might feel your legs kicking.
I'm just gonna do that one more breath cycle. Big Breath in, letting all the tension go from your body, feeling up, stretching the back, and then release. And with that, just allow your body to settle. Allow your mind to settle. I have a couple of breasts on your own. Feeling of lightness through the body, a lightness to the mind.
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