Video: Yoga Clock Pose

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The yoga Clock pose involves pressing an arm on a wall and turning away from it to stretch. Learn the Clock pose with tips from an expert in this free yoga video.

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Alright, so the next pose is the Clock Pose at Wall. Start about six inches away from the wall, take your right arm to the wall at twelve o'clock. Then from pressing your hand into the wall, draw your right shoulder blade into your upper back. As you press into the wall now, twist your heart and even your feet and your torso and your legs more toward the left. You can determine how deep you want to go by how much you twist toward the left. So for some of us just a little bit would be plenty, for others of us turning more deeply will feel good. Then you follow the clock, so from twelve go to one or two, and you might have to back off a little bit in your stance as the stretch gets deeper. Then from there you keep breathing and take your arm back to three. As your breathing you can push your arm into the wall and use that action to help you engage the arm muscles on the shoulder and draw the shoulder more deeply into your upper back. Then again a few more breaths and you can walk your palm back a little bit more. And each place on the clock is going to give you a deeper stretch. Take one more breath, take the arm all the way back, so now you're solidly at three o'clock. This is really the final part of the stretch, it's probably the deepest stretch too. And exhaling, you can release your arm.

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Yoga Clock Pose

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