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- Hey, guys, Jenna here.
If tightness in your shoulders
is something you're all too familiar with,
you're definitely not alone.
So many of us carry tension in our shoulders
and have tightness whether it's after a tough workout,
a stressful day at the office
or even just too much time on our phones.
This video will help you learn five yoga poses
that you can do for shoulder relief at any time.
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First pose is child's pose.
Child's pose is a very gentle pose
but it's also a great stretch
for the front of your shoulders
as well as your shoulder blades across your back.
As you inch your fingertips forward,
you can lift your elbows off the mat
and feel an even deeper stretch through the shoulders.
You'll begin in tabletop position.
Wrists under your shoulders, knees under your hips.
You'll bring your big toes together behind you.
Separate your knees as much as you need to
and then slowly sink your weight back into your heels,
inching your fingertips forward,
placing your forehead on the mat
just relaxing your neck and head.
If you'd like to go deeper, you can lift through the elbows
and inch your fingertips even further down your mat
to feel an even deeper shoulder stretch
in your shoulder blades and the tops of your shoulders,
still sinking the weight back through your glutes
and inching your fingertips forward as much as you'd like
as you go deeper into your stretch holding for five breaths.
If you'd like, you can always pause your video
and hold for a little bit longer.
Gently release
slowly dragging your fingertips towards your knees
and rounding up slowly one vertebrae at a time
with your head coming up last.
Pose number two is cow face pose.
Cow face is a seated pose
that not only stretches the shoulders but the hips as well.
By stretching the shoulders
and bringing extra blood flow to the arms,
this is a great pose for those of you
who sit at a desk all day.
It can also be modified by using a towel strap
or even just a T-shirt
for those of you with extra tight shoulders.
You'll begin in a seated position.
We're doing a slight variation today
just to really focus on the shoulder stretch of this pose.
So you'll bring your left arm behind your back
and your right arm all the way up and over
trying to make a connection between your fingertips,
eventually making that connection and squeezing,
pulling your fingertips
to really engage both shoulder blades.
If this is a little bit too difficult for you
and you're still working on your flexibility,
you can always use a towel, T-shirt or strap
to help you make that connection between your hands
and then actively pulling through
still feeling that same engagement through your shoulders.
Holding for five breaths.
And then gently release.
Always making sure to do both sides.
So on the second side,
you'll bring your right arm behind your back,
your left arm all the way up and over
making that same connection.
Pose number three is thread the needle.
This is a great pose for opening the shoulders,
chest, arms, upper back and neck.
There are also some advancements you can do with this pose
to get an even deeper shoulder stretch
like extending through your legs.
You'll start in tabletop position on your hands and knees.
Wrists directly under your shoulders
and knees directly under your hips
and then you'll shift the weight to your left hand
inhaling your right arm all the way up into the air
and exhale as you thread it through underneath
making sure to roll right on to the right shoulder
and then extending your left fingertips out in front of you.
You'll feel a deep stretch in your right shoulder
in this pose.
If you'd like to go a little bit deeper,
you have the option to extend through your left leg
rolling even further onto your right shoulder.
Holding for five breaths.
And gently release.
Slowly coming all the way back into tabletop
and then repeating on the other side
by threading your left arm through.
Our next pose is eagle.
This pose stretches your shoulders
by drawing the shoulder blades down
and creating a stretch in the muscles
between your shoulder blades.
By lifting up on your elbows,
you'll feel all of those muscles
start to stretch and open up.
For eagle, you'll start in a standing position
bringing your feet together, toes and ankles touching
and then you'll inhale your arms all the way up overhead
so your palms touch.
Exhale, swinging your right arm
all the way underneath your left interlacing your arms.
Pull down on your shoulders and exhale,
sit back into the chair.
You can hold here
if you'd like to focus on your shoulder stretch
or you can advance this pose
by bringing your right leg way up and over your left,
wrapping your toes behind your calf muscle.
You'll really wanna focus on lifting up through the elbows
to feel this stretch across both shoulder blades
the entire time and we'll hold here for five breaths
and gently release, slowly coming all the way up.
Inhale your arms up, palms touch overhead
and exhale, release your arms to your sides
always making sure to do both sides of your stretch.
So you'll repeat on the other side
by bringing your left arm all the way underneath your right.
Our last pose, pose number five, is humble warrior.
This is a great pose for stretching the shoulders
while also giving you an added challenge
of stretching the legs, hips and back as well.
If you're not an advanced yogi, no worries.
You can still do the pose in full
but you can also leave out the warrior part of the pose
and just do a modification with the arms
to solely focus your stretch on your shoulders.
You'll begin with your feet together
and then step your right foot all the way back
placing your heel flat on the mat sinking into your lunge
and circling your arms for warrior one.
From here, you'll interlace your fingers behind your back,
pull back through your shoulders and start to bow forward,
bringing your forehead down towards your knee
and holding here in this pose
keeping your shoulders engaged,
pulling up through your fingertips,
squeezing your shoulder blades together.
We'll hold for five breaths.
If you'd like, you can always pause your video
and hold for a little bit longer.
And gently release, slowly coming all the way up.
Inhaling your arms up and stepping your right foot
all the way up to meet your left.
Repeating on the other side
by stepping your left foot back and sinking into your lunge.
Thanks for tuning in
and we hope these poses help you stretch out
and loosen up your shoulders.
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Start your week off right.
I was so close.
Through the shoulders.
And feel an even deeper stretch through the shoulder,
motherfucker.
Through the shoulders.
Okay.
(laughing)
That's juggling, okay.
- [Speaker] Can you do three?
That would be really hard to do.
- [Jenna] No, I can't do three.
- [Speaker] That's amazing.
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