Hi, I'm Mariska from fuse plays in Washington, D C and I'm here with Noel and Christie and we're going to do a little mat workout. Um, my theme if I have a theme, and this one is really about kind of coming up with some fun transitions so you can use the whole class as a workout or you can just take pieces of it and then throw it into your own classes, um, for some ideas of how to transition from one place to the other. So we're going to go ahead and come lined down on the mat. I love to begin every class with some sort of bridging sequence. So we're going to do that because that's what my body always likes to do. So you can come to lying down with your knees bent and your feet flat to the Mat. And then just first let your body kind of settle into the mat, taking a couple of deep inhales and exhale.
And then we're going to find a little bit of a posterior pelvic tilt. So it's not quite a bridge yet. You're just going to draw your pubic bone towards your ribs for where you feel your low back, making contact with the mat, and then you lengthen your spine so that your tailbone makes contact with the mat. And we're just going to do a couple of rocks back and forth. So low back touches and then low back peels away a little bit. Low back touches.
So with knees bent, sorry, Bend your knees and just let your knees drop to the side. So your opposite hips left lifts off. Go ahead and lower head and chest down. Big. Inhale there and exhale you'll come up. So it's a little bit of like an oblique variation. Good. And then lengthen all the way back down.
So it's sort of like spine stretch with your legs in a different position. Again, exhale to reach forward and I'm thinking more hamstring stretch than ab work and lift back up. Chin to your chest as you reach forward and lift back up and then reach forward and lift back up. Float your right leg off the mat a little bit and you're going to lower down. So rolling all the way down onto your back paws with your hands reaching up towards the ceiling. That right leg is still floating. Head and chest lift.
We're going to lift to like up and hold and lower back down. Switch, lift and hold and down. So there's going for a little walk, lift and hold and down. Totally correct. And okay. In this position to be rounded in your low back, we're gonna lift and lower. We'll do one more each side and then last one, and then we're just going to swing your legs around so that you can come to a quadrat pet position. And we're going to come to what I'm going to consider a short quadrupedal closer. Your hands are to your knees. The more this will be a shoulder press exercise, which is what I want it to be.
And so if we did that in a different position, you could arch your back, which is not ultimately the position. The first part of this next exercise feels really good. So what am I want you to just come to hands and knees, hands directly under shoulders, knees under your hips. Christie's laughing. I don't know what that's about. Okay. Take your hand. That is further away from me and cross it over your hand. That is closer to me.
We're going to do this as like a thoracic rotation. So you're going to bend your elbow and turn so that your elbow touches the floor. You should feel a twist in your upper back, not in your lower back. And then press yourself back up. Good. We rotate and twist and then lift yourself back up. The reason for kind of locking this position in is because you're trying not to twist from your lower back, which is easy.
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