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- Hello everyone, my name is Juliana.
- And I'm Mark.
- [Both] And we are Boho Beautiful.
- [Juliana] Today we're super happy to collaborate
with the CBC and bring you a yoga for beginners class.
Let's begin in child's pose, reaching the arms forward
and allowing the hips to sink all the way
down to your heels.
Just taking a moment here to bring yourself to your breath.
Inhaling deeply into your nose,
and then exhaling as you slowly come up into your cat-cow.
Inhale, arching the back,
exhale rounding the spine.
Inhale arch, exhale round.
Inhale again arch,
and exhale, coming into neutral.
Right leg extends, hold it.
Hips are square,
and then whenever you're ready,
left arm forward into your fifty-fifty plank,
thinking about pulling that belly button
right into your spine,
engaging your core,
deep breath in, and then exhale,
let's switch to the other side.
Left leg out, first find your balance
and then take your right arm forward.
Good, and just staying with the breath here,
continuing to visualize belly button
and spine coming together.
Awesome, come on down, and at this time tucking both
toes under, go ahead and hover the knees above the ground,
simply lift, pull the belly button to your spine,
shoulders over the wrists, hold it here.
And then slowly extending into downward facing dog.
Now if you're a beginner and you wanna keep
your knees bent, that's totally fine,
or if you're up for it, go ahead and extend the legs
all the way out.
And then start to walk out your dog gently,
bending one knee at a time, pressing the other heel
right down to the floor.
Beautiful, go ahead and press both heels to the mat,
deep breath in, rounding through each
vertebra of your spine,
you're going to come forward into a plank position.
Nice and slow, round forward, hold,
and then tuck the chin, lift the hips,
back into that downward dog.
And again, rounding forward hold,
and back into downward facing dog.
Two more times, rounding through each vertebra of your
spine, shoulders over the wrists, hold that high plank.
And push back, one last time.
Rounding through, hold it,
now we're gonna take our modified version of the chaturanga,
so first you're gonna bend the knees, then you're gonna
do a little push up, your hips coming down last,
and going right into your upward facing dog.
Lift, drop the shoulders away from the ears.
Hold it here, and then exhale, push back into child's pose,
bending the knees, taking a moment to breathe, inhale,
exhale let it go.
Come back to table top, tuck the toes,
and back into that downward facing dog.
Awesome, see if you can go a little bit further
with the heels here, really feel those hamstrings releasing.
Allowing the sternum to fall right towards the mat.
Bending the knees, and then walk your way over
to your standing forward fold.
Now what we're gonna do is grab your elbows,
and do something that's called a rag doll.
You're just gonna gently sway right and left,
letting go of any tension in the upper body, in your neck.
Always remember to fold from the hips, not the lumbar spine.
Wonderful, now let's go a little deeper.
What you're gonna do is just simply place the palms
on the floor, or if you can't reach the floor no worries,
grab behind the knees.
If you like to go even further,
you can try and grab your toes.
So take whatever level fits you, and stay here and breathe.
Really think about that forehead reaching for the knees,
and then slowly let go and rounding yourself up
to mountain pose, standing position.
Inhale, let's reach the arms up to the sky,
exhale hands to heart.
And again, big breath up,
exhale forward fold all the way down.
Inhale half way, exhale bending both knees,
stepping your left foot all the way back into your lunge.
Hold it here for a moment, and taking a deep breath in,
and then exhale taking your knee extension,
extending that front knee as far as you can.
Inhale come forward,
and exhale push back.
Now don't worry if you can't get a full extension,
just try your best here.
Inhale come forward,
exhale push back.
And one last time inhale come forward,
exhale push it back and hold.
Really think about aligning your hips,
pulling the right hip back,
pushing the left hip forward.
Really focusing on the breath.
Wonderful, come back to your lunge.
Now find your balance, and from here we're gonna lift
both arms off your mat up into your high lunge.
Reaching the arms up to the sky,
opening the chest, opening the heart.
Deep breath, exhale bending the elbows,
inhale, exhale bend the elbows.
Reach up to the sky, and then squeeze
the shoulder blades together.
Reach, and squeeze.
Awesome, reaching up, and really squeezing
those shoulder blades together.
Last one, hold it,
and then from here go ahead take a twist,
extending both arms, and then that left hand
is gonna come all the way down, right arm reaches up
to the sky, into your twisted lunge.
See if you can follow that top arm with your gaze.
Hold and breathe,
and then dropping the back knee to the ground,
taking one more deep breath in,
and then exhale releasing the right hand down.
From here extending over into our half split position.
Flexing the front foot,
keeping your weight on your left knee.
Inhale come forward, and then exhale
take yourself back into that half split.
Again, great exercise, great posture, for that hamstring.
Come forward, and push back.
Again, come forward, and push your weight back.
Really think about that forehead reaching for the knee here.
Deep breath in, exhale out.
Keep the front foot flexed so you can
really feel the stretch all the way down
through the calf muscle as well.
Coming forward, and then from here going into our low lunge,
reaching both arms up to the sky,
making sure the front knee is on top of your ankle,
feel free to interlace those fingers if you wish,
hold, opening the chest, opening the heart.
Taking a moment to find your breath again,
and then releasing the arms.
Tuck your back toes, lift the back knee,
and slowly slide the foot back into your plank.
From here, taking your chaturanga,
feel free to modify if you wish,
inhale upward facing dog, hold it here,
exhale downward facing dog.
Taking a moment, going a little bit deeper
than the first time.
Looking up, bending the knees, and go ahead
come forward into your forward fold.
Staying here for a moment, again feel free to reach
for the back of the knees, and then roll yourself up.
Inhale reach up to the sky,
exhale hands to heart.
Inhale reach, exhale swan dive to the mat.
Inhale half way up,
exhale from here, stepping your right foot all the way back.
Taking a moment, finding your balance,
and then moving into our knee extensions.
Extending that front leg, forehead to knee,
inhale come forward,
exhale push back.
And again, inhale come forward,
exhale extend all the way back,
thinking about keeping those hips square.
One more inhale come forward,
exhale push back, let's hold here a little longer,
really think about folding over that leg.
Breathing into your nose, and gently exhaling
out of your mouth.
Inhale, and exhale out.
Coming forward into your lunge now, find your balance,
let's reach both arms up into your high lunge.
Again, take a moment to find your balance,
pull the belly button into your spine,
and then bend those elbows.
Inhale reach up to the sky, exhale squeeze
the shoulder blades.
Inhale reach, exhale squeeze.
Inhale reach, exhale squeeze the shoulder blades.
Reach, and squeeze.
Reach, and squeeze.
Awesome, hold it,
go ahead twist to your left, extend both elbows,
and when you're ready, go ahead and bring your
right hand down, left arm up, twisted lunge.
Keeping the gaze up or down, whatever is easiest.
Dropping the back knee,
lower the hand, and come back over to your half split.
Keeping that front foot flexed,
inhale come forward, exhale push back into that half split.
Inhale come forward,
exhale pushing back.
Hips are square, front foot is flexed,
with each exhale think about bringing that forehead
a little closer to the knee.
Beautiful, coming back to your lunge, go ahead
reaching both arms up into your low lunge.
Hips coming forward, your left knee is directly
over top of that ankle.
You never want your front knee to pass your front toes.
Feel free to interlace the fingers if you wish,
hold it here, deep breath in,
exhale, letting go.
Coming down with the hands, tucking your back toes,
lift the back knee, slide that front foot back,
plank position, deep breath in,
and then exhale when you're ready.
Take your chaturanga.
Inhale upward facing dog, drop the shoulders
away from the ears,
exhale downward facing dog.
Allow those heels to release all the way down to your mat,
take a deep breath in, and then exhale,
let's make our way over to our mats.
We're gonna take a breathing exercise here,
right hand on your chest, left hand on your belly.
Inhale, big breath into your chest,
into your ribs, into your belly.
Exhale, first out of the belly,
out of the ribs, and then out of the chest.
Again, chest, ribs, belly,
and exhale belly, ribs, and chest.
Again, chest, ribs, belly,
belly, ribs, chest.
Beautiful.
Inhale, let's reach the arms up to the sky,
and simply open the heart up, kneeling cobra.
You can release as far back as you like, and then come back
over to child's pose, taking a second for yourself.
Letting go of any tension in your body, in your mind.
Allowing yourself to completely be present in this moment
with your body.
Take a deep breath in, and then exhale, letting go
of any tension you may be holding within yourself.
Nothing matters except you, and this mat right now.
Slowly let's come up, inhale fill the lungs with oxygen,
exhale hands to heart.
Inhale, big reach up to the sky,
exhale let all of it out.
Inhale last time reach,
exhale slowly letting go of any tension,
as the hands come right down to your heart.
Take a moment here for yourself.
And when you're ready, you may simply transfer over
to your lotus posture, sitting cross-legged on your mat,
taking our final two breaths together to end the practice.
Inhale reach the arms,
exhale let it go as the hands come down.
One last time, biggest breath of the day, inhale reach up,
exhale hands to heart,
thanking yourself for this beautiful practice today.
Thank you guys so much for joining me
in beautiful Banff National Park.
Can't wait to see you again soon.
Namaste.
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