Video: Gentle Yoga: Double Leg Kicks

This Season: Tailgating; New Year, New You; Tax Time

Double leg kicks are used in gentle yoga to exercise the gluteus muscles, as well as the hamstrings. Execute double leg kicks with tips from a certified yoga instructor in this free video on yoga.

Comments

Video Transcript

In Double Leg Kicks, lay right down your mat, or on a soft surface, keep the arms beneath the shoulders, elbows beneath the shoulders, hands flat on the floor, fingers wide apart or clench those fists together. Pelvis stays right on the floor, take your lower back, you want to work the buttocks and the hamstrings. Take the shoulders right back and the chin goes up. Now take your left leg off the floor, but keep that pelvis right into the floor. And just go slowly, exhale twice, inhale twice. Kick, two; out, two. Kick two; out, two. Exhale, inhale. And each time you kick in, keep the shoulders relax and the head tilted up. One more time on the left side, and then lower it right down. Pelvis right on the floor, let your right leg come off the floor, shoulders back, chin is soft. Exhale, inhale, that's one. Reach in, in, out, out. In, in, out, thighs stays off the floor. In, two; out, two. In, two; out, and one more time. In, two and out, two. Touch the floor, guide the floor away from you. Sort your knees out, sit back towards your heels, bring your head down, support your head upon a fist, the hands all flatten up. Let the shoulders release, breathe in deep to your nose and exhale. And then guide the floor away from you.

Follow eHow: Follow @eHow

Gentle Yoga: Double Leg Kicks

Comments

Related Ads

Related Articles & Videos