From now until the end of the year, life grows more hectic. If you’re feeling a sense of busyness, one way to find balance is by shifting to a more mellow yoga practice. Gentle Hatha classes feature fewer postures, held for longer times, and an emphasis on quieting your mind. Slow and gentle yoga classes encourage a more profound focus on deep breath, which in turn allows you to relax more quickly.

Keep yourself calm and relaxed this holiday season with popular YogaDownload teacher, Jackie Casal Mahrou’s Gentle Hatha Series.

FEATURED POSE: STANDING SPLIT

 
Standing Split (Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana)
Standing Splits challenges you to find a balance of strength, flexibility, and grace while opening your hamstrings, quads, and back.

Benefits:

-Stretches hamstring, calf, hip flexor, quad, and back muscles

-Strengthens ankles, legs, glutes and abdomen.
-Warms and energizes the body, while improving focus.
-Standing Splits Pose stimulates the Root Chakra (Muladhara) and Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana), allowing the practitioner to feel rooted, connected, and balanced.

Modifications:

-Place a block under one or both hands to allow you to straighten your standing leg and find a deeper stretch.
-For more depth and leverage, you can practice this posture against a wall. Come to a Downward Facing Dog with your heals a few inches from a wall. Lift your right leg up and place your foot with toes flexed on the wall. Walk your hands closer to the wall as you walk your right foot up the wall. Enjoy a deep stretch in both legs. Repeat on the other side.

Chakras:
Standing Splits Pose stimulates the Root Chakra (Muladhara) and Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana), allowing the practitioner to feel rooted, connected, and balanced.

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