How to Do a Cobra Roll

Series Summary

The tradition of yoga as a means for healthy living is more than 5,000 years old, but the last 10 years have seen a sharp increase in the number of people learning about its benefits and utilizing its practices. Though the roots of yoga lie in philosophy and meditation, yoga as a form of fitness is extremely useful and beneficial for everyone. Additionally, yoga poses can be used to prevent symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome and tendinitis. Learn how to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and tendinitis using yoga poses and stretches in this free video series on yoga fitness featuring yoga expert Cindy Mastry. Mastry demonstrates how to do a cobra roll, proper cat pose hand techniques, how to prevent tennis elbow with yoga, how to strengthen tendons with the chair pose and the warrior pose, how to use eagle arms and the shoulder reach pose to prevent and avoid carpal tunnel syndrome.

Video Transcript

"In yoga there's many stretches for many different parts of the body, but one of the parts of the body that we seem to leave out is our wrists. So the cobra roll is a really good way to stretch your wrists. It can also help combat arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendinitis of the elbow. So it's very easy, just take your forefingers and place them right on your thumb and then begin to roll. Just rolling the hand forward, you can do it fast or slow. It just feels like a little cobra like a little snake roll. Good. And so this is bringing blood flow to your wrist, bringing blood flow to your hand and stretching your forearm. You can also take your cobra roll sideways and then open the thumb, press with your hand to the ball of the thumb and as you press your pinkie finger over the other way. So this gives a good sideways stretch to the wrists as well. So cobra rolls and then stretching the wrists sideways in your cobra roll great way to keep your wrists strong. I'm Cindy Mastry namaste."