Yoga Quad Stretch

Video Transcript

"As with hamstrings, Quads are very active throughout all your yoga poses. So you want to make sure that we engage those in our cool down stretches. We're going to take our knee in line with our hip. And you want to have this foot in front of you enough where you can maintain neutral posture. You don't want to far in where you're coming over or too far out where you slash back, but just have it a nice neutral position. Pressing through in the hip, keeping the spine and head in line, reach up, slight bend in the supporting elbow and down. You also want to make sure you go the other way so you can release the other side. Come back, looking up. If you loose your balance or bothers your head you're not to look at your hands, just simply look forward, but keep reaching through the fingertips, trying not to arch or slouch but reach up out and over you're trying to elongate while you're doing a very hip opening and stretching through the top of the thigh here. Again you want to try to make sure you maintain integrity with the knee in line with the hip, you don't want it too far back or too far forward. Try to keep more of your weight on the back foot and reach. And on this side, you'll really feel a great release in the oblique?s, but make sure you maintain neutral pelvis here by releasing forward. And then just switch it up to the other side. If you simply get a stretch from just folding your knees to one's side or the other, start with that and then you can add in the arm balance."