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As a yoga teacher, I’m continuously asked how I give you creative yoga flows. I at all times have a tough time answering that as I’m inspired by so many various things, whether a quote or the weather or a pose or a sense. Sometimes it’s nice to get out of your head and easily move with no plan. Just see where your body desires to take you.
Recently, I heard Nathan Ball’s amazing cover of “Crazy,” originally by Gnarls Barkley, and it made me wish to move. I put the song on repeat and commenced to flow with the music with none idea of where I used to be going. This sequence is what resulted.
Feel-good yoga flow
Practice this sequence or use it as a basis for your personal practice, allow yourself to be inspired by whatever moves you today.
Join Brittany Bryden for her IG Live class on Friday, October 7, 2022, at noon EST. She’ll be leading us all through a 30-minute flow.(Photo: Brittany Bryden)
Figure 4
Start in Downward Dog. Come onto the ball of your right foot and convey your left foot to your right thigh for a figure 4 shape. Bend your standing leg, bringing your chest toward your calf.
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Plank Crunch
Come back onto the ball of your right foot and roll forward, bringing your shoulders over your wrists and your left knee into your chest.
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Cat Stretch
Lower your knee and shin to the mat as your bring your chest forward right into a slight backbend. Keep your right leg straight and powerful. Think Cat Pose in your upper back. Then lift your left knee back toward your chest, keeping your shoulders stacked over your wrists.
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Wild Thing
Shift your weight into your right hand as you roll onto the periphery of your right foot after which step your left foot behind you, coming into Wild Thing.
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Three-Legged Dog
As you roll back into Plank, take your lifted leg back and up for Three-Legged Dog.
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Quad Stretch
Step your left foot forward between your hands and lower your back knee to the ground. Bend your back knee to bring your back heel toward your glutes and reach back with either hand to your foot for a quad stretch.
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Prolonged Pyramid Pose
Bring your hands right down to frame your front foot, tuck your back toes, and lift your back knee. Shift your hips back and straighten your front leg for long Pyramid Pose.
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Warrior 2 Pose
Bend into your front leg along with your front knee stacked over your heel and ground your back foot so the sting is sort of parallel to the back of your mat. Reach your arms out out of your shoulder and stack your shoulders over your hips in Warrior 2 Pose.
To complete this side, windmill your hands right down to frame your front foot. Step your left foot back and are available to Downward Dog. Either pause here and walk your legs out or take a Sun Salutation A before practicing the sequence on the opposite side.
About our contributor
Brittany Bryden is a yoga and movement teacher whose aim is to assist others feel higher of their minds and bodies. She has been a yoga teacher for seven years and a student for for much longer. To her, yoga is the self-exploration of our authentic selves. She has found the true source of self-care, each physically and mentally, on her mat, and she or he considers it a present to share this together with her students. You may follow her on Instagram and practice along together with her on YouTube.