The throat chakra, is related to clear communication. This implies not solely your capability to talk up for your self and use your voice in a robust method, but additionally to hear critically and with compassion.
The next stretches concentrate on the neck and shoulders and the realm bodily related to this fifth chakra.
- Ujjayi Breath – Begin seated, lengthen the backbone and roll shoulders down and away from the ears. Shut your eyes. Consider fogging up a mirror, as you constrict the again of the throat. Nevertheless, hold the mouth closed. As a substitute respiration out and in by means of the nostril. As you’re taking a number of rounds of breath right here, visualize blue within the space of the throat. Flip your head to the proper shoulder, leaning again barely for a couple of rounds of the breath. Then repeat to the left. Perhaps end with some half circles with the top.
2. Cat/Cow – Come as much as desk high, with palms underneath the shoulders and knees underneath the hips. Emphasize the opening by means of the throat as you progress your backbone by means of a couple of rounds right here. Inhale, drop the stomach and curl the tailbone and gaze up. Exhale, to spherical and contract the backbone.
3. Heel/Toe Sit with Bind – Push the hips again to sit down on the heels, lifting the torso up. Interlace the arms behind the again, squeezing the shoulder blades behind you. Raise up by means of the guts and throat. Take a couple of breaths earlier than shifting on.
4. Downward Canine – Convey the arms down in entrance of you. Raise the hips up, tuck the toes. Curl and raise up. Really feel the neck soften and let the top be heavy. Paddle the legs out. Take cleaning breaths, inhale by means of the nostril, taking huge sighs out the mouth.
5. Prolonged Aspect Angle – Step the proper foot ahead between the arms, spin the again toes out. Push into ft and raise up into Warrior 2. Convey the left hand behind the low again, relaxation the proper forearm on the proper thigh. Hold the hips low. Let the top hold heavy, taking part in with the angle of the chin.
6. Reverse Warrior – Convey the left hand onto the again leg, let the top calm down. Attain the proper arm ahead (parallel to the proper leg) to boost sensation within the neck. Hold squeezing the proper knee open.
7. Bridge Variation – Decrease all the way down to your again, bringing the soles of the ft to the mat hip width aside. Push into the heels to raise the hips up. Chill out the arms on the sides, or carry the arms to help the hips to deepen the again bend. This pose brings the hips larger than the guts, and coronary heart larger than the throat, sending blood to the throat space.
These 7 poses come from a fast yoga class for the throat chakra on my YouTube channel. It’s class quantity 5 in a ten minute morning yoga collection. Test the complete class out beneath.
Kassandra
