Headstand Like Magic

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Headstand Like Magic

Hi I am Dina Prioste and welcome to Get Exercised. It is hot in my apartment and I am sweating. Today I am going to show an alternative tip Shoulder Stand and Headstand if you are experiencing some neck strain. It is a headstand supported by blocks. But I do not want to go upside down. I want stay right side up. Not to worry, you do not have to balance in the middle of the room; you will need a wall and a couple of yoga blocks and a book or two, or three or four. I feel like a library, whore. Okay, if you have glaucoma, diabetes or pregnant please avoid this pose; you can do legs of the wall pose as an alternative. To set up the blocks I used some books but you can use four sturdy yoga blocks. I used some books on the bottom, just to make sure is high enough just make sure it is not going to slide around and these are going to go flat on their sides all the way up against the wall. And the other two blocks are going to go on their sides that are higher up.

This whole set up is shoulders distance apart. Oh, you move to this wall, the magic of editing. Okay! So, you have your blocks set up shoulder distance apart. Now, you are going to take your hands down on the floor, finger tips spread wide, right in front of the bottom blocks or books and bring the head down between the blocks. So, the set up, the shoulders distant apart, so your shoulder should be resting pretty comfortably on this top blocks. And the elbows are about 90 degrees here. So you want the arm at this angle.

From here it will lift the hips up like you are going downward dog type pose, but I am not falling of out of my shirt right now. You just start to walk the feet closer to your head, and from here just bend one knee, take one knee on the back of the arm, then do the other. So, you are upside down here. And when if you are confident when you feel like the blocks are totally supporting you, your head should be like barely touching the floor, and from here, let us take the leg straight up and hang up against the wall so there is really not much effort here. The blocks are totally supporting me, I do not feel any compression on my neck because the blocks are giving me this height here and my head is disgrace on the floor. Act you are flying, and when you are done take the child’s pose. That was actually kind of fun. I was flying. Supported headstand is a great way to get used to be completely upside down without having to worry about balance or putting strain on your neck. Join me next week when I show you a cooling breathe exercise that my mom actually used to teach me when I was a little kid but she did not know it was yoga. Thanks for watching, I am Dina Prioste and you have just been exercised. Oh, the magic of camera editing.

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