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Yoga – Warm Up Moves
Before you start your Yoga practice, it is good if you do some warm up exercise. This will make your muscles warmed and loosened and will make sure you would not have any sudden injury or strain. It would not take too long, just a few minutes.
For the shoulders
Stand upright with your feet slightly apart and shoulders relaxed.
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With your hands down, lift the shoulders up as high as they can go and let them fall down. Repeat this a couple of times. When you are done with that, wheel you arms around in a slow large circle. This should help loosened your shoulders.
Squatting
This warm up move is for your hips and thighs. Stand with your feet just slightly apart. Put your hands on your hips and slowly go into a squatting position. Okay, now slowly go back to your standing position. Repeat this several times.
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Shake and Twist
Now, it’s to loosen up a bit. Relax your body by letting the whole body go totally floppy. Shake your limbs. Continue as long as you feel comfortable.
When you are done, swing your arms loosely forward and backward around your body. Keep your feet and thigh apart. Repeat this a few times.
Stretch
While standing, put your arms straight out in front of you at your chest height. Take a deep breath and exhales slowly.
Okay, now it’s time for you to play cat. This move, so-called the cat is designed to strengthen the spine, improves your posture and revitalizes the body.
Kneel on all fours. Hands and knees apart. As you inhale, bring your head forward and slightly hollow your back. When you breathe out, arch the back upwards, and let your head drop down, looking at your abdomen.
Repeat the sequence five to ten times, creating slow movement of the two postures.
Okay, now you are ready to start!
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