YOGABODY - 15 Minute Full Body Stretching Routine - Yoga for Flexibility Series
Our Physical Dimension is all about movement, body (skin) care, breathwork and all things which improve our physical body. In this new blog series, published every two weeks, we will share with you some extraordinary videos from YOGABODY which is a yoga teacher owned and operated education company founded by Lucas Rockwood. They are a worldwide leader in professional yoga education and fitness practice programs.
YOGABODY was built on practice, sweat, and struggle. It’s the physical manifestation of everything Lucas Rockwood cares about in life, and his greatest hope is that some of his passion for this practice and lifestyle rubs off on you when you experience your own practice through his videos. Nothing worth doing in life is easy. Movement is more powerful than meditation. And practice is everything.
This first post in our series kicks off our series on yoga practice to increase our flexibility. Every two weeks we will share a new video from the YOGABODY flexibility series so that you too can begin to increase your flexibility - something that is so crucial to our health and wellness, especially as we age.
Please scroll down to watch the video and to learn more about Lucas Rockwood, thank you.
If you have stiff hamstrings, locked up hips, and/or a rigid spine, and you’re looking for a fast, but effective, solution for full body flexibility, this video is for you.
This 15-minute sequence of poses is very simple and pragmatic. It follows key Science of Stretching principles and uses deep, passive stretches to help change your soft tissues and improve your mobility. However, it is NOT easy and should be used as a post-exercise practice, not a warm-up. Think of it as a supplement to your other activities.
ANATOMY OF STRETCHING
Your myofascial tissues (muscles and fascia) get lots of circulation and have a huge ability to grow, lengthen and transform. However, when you stretch, does it sometimes feel like you're fighting your own muscles? This is called your myotatic reflex or stretch reflex. It happens when the muscle spindles, the stretch-sensing nerves inside your muscles, signal to your spinal cord and cause your muscles to tense up to protect you from stretching too far or too fast. To combat this, you need to slow down, hold your stretches for longer and use breathing techniques to reduce the myotatic response. In this video we’ll show you how to do both.
BEST PRACTICES
These poses should always be done after a workout, never before. This is stretching with a capital S, meaning it’s very intense and is designed to affect change in your soft tissues. If possible, do it before bed when your body has plenty of time to recover afterwards.
5 POSES WE WILL LEARN
1) Wall Doll
2) Cliffhanger
3) Blaster
4) Block Noodle
5) Lightning Bolt
You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@YOGABODY.Official/videos
"At YOGABODY, we believe that practice is everything."
Lucas Rockwood is an internationally-renowned yoga trainer, TEDx Speaker, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur. Lucas’ corporate training clients include Meta and Noom. His early yoga and meditation teachers include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (deceased), Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka (deceased). Lucas left the USA in 2003 and traveled and taught extensively before making Barcelona, Spain, his home base.
In a previous life, he worked in theater, publishing, and as a plant-based chef and nutritional coach. He is the father of three international kids and remains as passionate about yoga as when he first began practicing in 2002.
Lucas is the founder and Managing Director of YOGABODY® and YOGABODY Teachers College® and author of Yoga Business Mastery: Earn a Great Living Doing What You Love.
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