Sufi Circles in Partner Yoga

Video Transcript

"A great way to open up your hips and come into the rhythm of your breath is with Sufi circles. You can do this alone but it is really fun to do it with a partner. Again you start seated back to back in your easy seating pose. Now it's an opposition breath so as I come forward, Gina is going to be leaning back and then we are actually going to be making circles, circling the body around and as Gina leans forward, I'm going to lean back opening my chest, good, so we're going to come into the breath but it's going to be an opposition so when I'm inhaling, she's exhaling. You want to talk to your partner, you want to make sure you're not putting so much pressure that you knock your partner over, you always want to be mindful of your partner, good and then we'll do one more circle in this direction and then we're going to come back in the opposition direction, good. You want to maintain the contact of the shoulder blades so you have got to make sure that you don't come down too low so that you lose your partner. You always want to maintain that connection with your breath as well as with your partner. So we'll come around for two more times like that, it really feels great on our hips. This is very centering as well."