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15-Minute Morning Slow Flow Yoga
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This practise isn’t focused on building strength or taking you into challenging shapes. Rather, it’s meant to be a feel-good, slow-flow practice to help you ease you into your day. You’re not moving quickly but you’re also not staying still for long in this slow yet fluid practice.
The slow flow focuses primarily on versatility and includes a lot of circular and undulating movements, such as making circles in Cat-Cow, flowing between Child’s Pose and Cobra, even adding some sweeping arm circles to Warrior 1. You’re moving like honey, meaning you’re almost feeling resistance against the motion as you slow everything down and feel into where you might be holding tightness or tension before you begin your day.
15-Minute Morning Slow Flow Yoga
“You’re moving like honey, meaning you’re almost feeling resistance against the motion as you slow everything down.”
Cat-Cow-Child’s Pose
Begin on your hands and knees, hands underneath your shoulders and knees underneath your hips. Start with the customary Cat and Cow in which you inhale as you lower your belly and lift your gaze and tailbone. Then exhale as you round your back and contract, chin to chest. Take a few rounds like this, connecting your body to your breath.
Walk your hands a couple inches past your shoulders. Exhale as you push back into Child’s Pose, then inhale into Cow Pose, and then rock it back to Cat before sinking all the way back into Child’s Pose. So arch your back and then round your back before you push your hips back toward your heels. Take a few more like this.
Cobra Pose-Child’s Pose
Come back to neutral.Sink your hips and lift your chest in cobra Pose, taking a little backbend and opening through your chest.
then bend your elbows as you flow back into your Child’s Pose. Inhale into Cobra and exhale, push back into Child’s Pose. Take 2 more rounds.
Downward-Facing Dog
Come back to neutral,tuck your toes,and lift your hips up and back to Downward-Facing Dog.You’re going to undulate even through your Downward Dog.
Lift your heels and ripple forward, almost like you’re coming into Plank Pose.
Then bend your knees and send your hips up and back as you find downward Dog. So you’re shifting forward and back, rippling like a wave, as you push into your fingertips and knuckles. Take a few more, stretching through every little part of your body, getting all of your muscles engaged in this action. Take one more inhalation and exhalation. Now find a little stillness in your Downward Dog as you stretch.
Warrior 1
Lift your right leg toward the sky, bend your right knee, and open your hip. Then step forward, plant your right foot, and spin your back heel at an angle in Warrior 1 (Virabhadrasana 1). Have your feet at least hip-width distance apart. This will help a lot with your balance.
