Yoga Sun Salutation Routine

Video Transcript

"These are some of the basic movements of a sun salutation. Starting in mountain pose with the feet hip-width apart, palms facing the front, take a deep breath and inhale. As the hands come up over the head touching, reaching up and leaning back. With your exhale going to pitch forward, flat back, all the way down into a standing forward fold. Softening the knees, you can step one foot at a time, or you can hop both feet back into a plank, wrist under the shoulders, body form is a straight line. Keeping the elbows in, you slowly lower yourself to the floor as you inhale up into an upward facing dog, shoulders relaxed. With your breath you exhale, lifting into a down dog, pressing the heels into the floor. With the next breath, depending if you're working the right or the left side, you pull the right foot forward, turning the left foot out, lifting up into warrior one, and then again with your exhale, lifting over into warrior two. From here you can do several modifications such as taking it over into a triangle. Again, following your breath, you pull the leg around, exhale, stepping the left foot to the right again to your standing forward fold, and then again with your breath, finishing off as you inhale, hands over the head, exhaling them down to the heart, and then you would start the next side."