Cleanse the Body and Relax Your Spine with a Series of Twists and Deep Breathing - Video

Hello, welcome to another session of Moving on the Mat with Dana. Today we will be doing a series of exercises relax and release the hips, legs and lower back that will mainly focus on twists. Twist help to cleanse the digestive system and enable us to see things in a new direction so they are great to add to a yoga practice.
We will begin with the cat/cow warm up for the spine followed by Lateral cats for the sides of the body. This will be followed by a full body stretch in Downward Facing Dog. After downward facing dog we will do a Three Legged Dog, Puppy, and Downward Dog with a Twist.
Next we will come into Bound Angle Pose for some passive hip stretching. This will be followed by Forward Bend and then Table Top (a back bend) and for a little more strengthening we will do some side Planks. Then back into sitting for a simple twist, followed by head to knee pose and more sitting twists.
Next we will do some supportive restorative stretches on the wall including legs up the wall and legs wide on the wall for some hamstring and inner thigh stretches. Briefly we will come into a partial shoulder stand and some relaxing side twists on the wall.
After a few wall exercises we will return to sitting in Bound Angle pose and then Easy pose for some back, neck and shoulder stretches including Cow's Head Arms.
This yoga session will end with some sitting and deep breathing with hand and Body mudras as well as the pranayama exercise of Extended Exhalation. Thanks for joining me. Wishing you all a great and relaxing day.