Easy Ground Work – Hatha Yoga Flow 1
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This mat based hatha flow is gentle and perfect for a “lazy” yoga day. Diane leads you through a gently active sequence that awakens your body without any strain, leaving you calm and refreshed. Duration: 43 min
Benefits: increased flexibility, increased breathing capacity, opens the hips and releases tension from the lower back, relieves symptoms of sciatica, eases neck and shoulder tension
Contraindications: if you have any pronounced neck or lumbar region injury be mindful during this practice and go at your own pace
Teacher: Diane Jacobs
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This is a great first try. I love this Yoga video it's really nice.
I've started with this one and moving on to others when I get better.
This is great. Where does Diane teach in person? I would love to go to a real class.
You call this easy? I was looking for a beginner routine, but I'm failing to find any. I guess when your joints are tight there's no such thing as a beginner routine. I attempted the whole thing and I looked like a ridiculous caricature of every pose you did so easily. If I'm supposed to adapt my posture in order not to feel pain, I'd just lay there on my back for 43 minutes, because it was pain, pain and more pain from first to last. I couldn't even get into the very first sitting position with folded legs, how in the hell do you sit that way without falling backwards, I couldn't sit on my heels to do the child's pose, the pain was terrible, I don't get it, I'm a guy, I know women are more flexible naturally but I have absolutely no self-esteem left, totally deflated. I'll never learn this, there's no possible way I could get through the years of pain necessary to do even the simplest poses. You call the downward facing dog a pose to relax in, are you serious? Even the corpse pose was misery trying to flatten my neck against the mat, it wouldn't go. And I'm not heavy set, I'm only 165 lbs, I work out, I jog and bike ride, I don't get it, my body's a piece of crap if I can't even sit on my heels, shit.
Thanks for the video, it was beautiful even if it made my body feel like the ugly crap it is. At least now I know.
Yoga is a journey. If you can't sit on your heels or can't flatten your neck to the mat then rejoice in the fact that Yoga is here to help you slowly but surely do these things. You don't have to be as flexible or as lean as another Yogi, you take Yoga at the pace that is best for your body and your mind and enjoy the journey. Maybe write down your goals or intentions for what and where you would like your practice to lead and check them in one or two months time and I bet you will see a difference and you will be able to do things that you found hard at first.
Diane, thanks for guiding my mom's and my yyoga practice in Buenos Aires, Argentina, every morning. My flexibility is really increasing. I couldn't even do the child pose at first, and now I am almost able to do the heroe.
Thank you so much for this class. When I do in the morning it improves my whole day. Diane's great. Thanks again. So you know, the video freezes near the end during savasana. You can advance forward a few minuets to finish.
A super class on a lazy, rainy Saturday in Germany.
I love this video but am recently pregnant. Any recommendations for how I’ll need to alter this as I progress?
Diane,
I have been doing this routine for over a year. It’s amazing for the stress and “laptop strain” in university. Thanks so much for posting:)
This is a great routine for me. I have hip and neck pain, once I do this routine it really reduces the amount. I think it helps restore my alignment. You should hear me popping and cracking!
Thank-you. This is a great video for when the arthritis or the fibro gets bad and I don’t feel like doing anything. Diane looks comfortable in her body and helps me get comfortable in mine.
Thanks Diane, I am housebound and was longing to join you in this class. At last, with the help of a laptop,I was able to. I cannot tell you how wonderful this made me feel.
Namaste
I have just attempted – with variations – this routine. I too have arthritis and fibromyalgia. Am hoping this will help
Thank you for letting everyone use this good lessons for our own health
thanks
The link is broken
Fixed it! Thank you very much for pointing that out. I was doing some housecleaning and I bumped that flow under some furniture… it’s out again for all to see
Thank you!
Thank you for a wonderful class, I love listening to your soothing voice and this hatha flow (and the other one) has become a weekly routine for me!
Thank you so mu for a great website with a lot of good yogamovies! I’ve tried a new one almost every morning since I discovered yogayak.com. I’ve been practising yoga for years now, and I cannot even begin to say how wonderful I think it is that there is top quality yogaclasses available here for free!! I have found so much inspiration on this site. Great teachers. I have a question, how can I download the movies onto my computer? The film always says “link below” but I never find one…. please help? Peace and love from Norway
Great thank you!!
Love it!
This is my first attempt at yoga online. I have been doing yoga for 5 years and had become pretty advanced. Then my fibromyalgia flared for about 3 months. Any kind of yoga was too painful. Found this class online and it is perfect for me right now. I hadn;t lost as much flexibility as I thought I would. The teach Diane was very descriptive and reminded you how to do the poses correctly. I can’t wait to find more. Thank you for a wonderful class and meditation at the end. I Loved It. Namaste.
gud for beginners..
thankssss
I see no download
I love this class. It has been so good for me. Please let me know how to download, whether paid or free. Thanks so much.