Yoga: Goddess Pose with Garudasana (Eagle Pose)

Video Transcript

"Gina's relaxing comfortably in Goddess Pose after a long day of work and she's feeling a little tense on her shoulders so we're going to fix that for her by using Garudasana arms so that's Eagle Arms. So we're going to have Gina bring her arm. First we're just bringing them forward and come elbow to elbow and just relax right those there. Just let the elbows relax unto your chest. Good. And now she's going to bring her, what arm under, she's got her left arm under, yeah, and just wrap her hands around. Good. So she's going to move her elbows up so that they're in line with her shoulders and she wants to press her shoulders down. Good. She's going to inhale and open up her chest as she reaches her arms up over her head and then as she exhales, she's going to bring the elbows back down to her chest. And see if she can just gently never wanting to press too hard, bring your fingertips up to the sky. That's really going to release tension through the outsides of the shoulders. Good. One more time she's going to inhale and bring the elbows up and reach her hands over her head and then she's going to exhales and bring her elbows back down, reaching her fingertips right up to the sky. Good. And you find that when you twisted like this, that one shoulder's going to get more, a lot more work than the other one. You feeling that Gina? So of course you would want to reverse and do this on the other side."