Flexibility Yoga for Beginners with Rodney Yee - Neck and Shoulders _ Yoga _ Gaiam

Most of us carry the weight of the world on our shoulders .

Learn how to open them , free them and find their true articulation with strength .

Stand in mountain pose at the front of your mat .

Inhale , raise your arms up , exhale , swing your arms down , inhale up , exhale , down , inhale up , exhale down 10 times and one and two n three and four and five .

Your legs bend and seven and eight and nine and 10 and stand mountain poses , spread your feet , hip distance apart , swinging your arms like a helicopter side to side , let your shoulders be loose .

Let your arms draw into the body .

One and two and three .

Feel the rhythm and the breath .

Breathe easy .

Let your spine turn with your shoulders and come back to mountain pose .

Stretch your elbows and your fingers down .

Pull your upper arms back into the floating of your chest .

Inhale , raise your arms out to the side .

Exhale palms together over your chest .

Inhale , raise your arms up to volcano poses , stretch through the elbows , neck , relaxed , reach through your waist , strong legs , inhale , exhale arms down to your side .

Inhale , raise your arms out to the side palms facing up , exhale palms together over your chest .

Inhale , reach your arms up as you look up , exhale swan , dive the arms right into eagle pose , right arm under left palms together , engage the abdominal muscles , draw the arms into your socket , breathe into the upper chest .

Inhale arms out to the side .

Exhale hands together over your chest .

Inhale , look up as you reach up , exhale and release the arms to eagle pose .

Second side , left arm underneath , plug your arms in elbows , lift broaden your back muscles as you breathe between your shoulder blades lengthen the sides of your waist from the strength of your legs , breathe , release the arms .

Inhale , raise your arms out to the side .

Exhale palms together over your chest .

Inhale , reach your arms up as you woke up , exhale , open the arms into shoulder , stand arms , bring your hands far up your back , drop your head forward , press the baby finger side of your hands against your back as you bring your elbows towards each other .

Inhale , raise your head , keep pressing your hands against the back and broadening your chest from a soft neck .

Release your arms back to mountain pose .

Inhale , raise your arms to the outside , bring your hands together over your chest .

Follow your hands up as you reach up and exhale swan , die forward into standing forward , then bend your legs , slide your chin and your chest forward right foot back to a lounge , left foot back to plank position .

Breathe easy , strong arms , shoulders , plug into the chest , open your chest , lower down to all fours , crush your right chin over your left , lie down on your back .

Constructive rest wigs , bent arms over the head and then reach your legs long to pond pose .

Plug your arms into the socket .

But then elongate your waist from the reach of your tailbone through your legs .

The reach of your lower ribs go with your arms , firm the shoulder blades into your back .

Reach a little further .

Relax the sense organs .

Now take your arms out to your side , broaden your arms , reach them more open along the ground , broaden your shoulder blades .

And now take eagle pose , arms again , right arm under left , open your chest broad back , your arms plug into the socket , your elbows lift towards your face as your hands lift towards the sky , release chain sides , left arm under right palms together , arms plugged into the shoulder blades , forearms parallel to the ground broad back , strong legs , feel your breath release your arms out to your sides , extend and open the chest , bend your knees into your chest , crush your right chin over your left , hold your feet and begin to rock up .

Rock up to sitting , roll through , come to kneeling inhale , raise your arms out to the side .

Exhale , inters your fingers behind your head from here , lift your chest and lift your elbows , soften your eyes and open into a little bit of the back bed , come back to center inhale , reach your arms out to the side , inter waist , the opposite index finger on top , place them behind your head .

A tiny back , bent , opening the chest and the elbows , leaning back onto the hands and pulling with your hands lengthen the back body , reach your arms out to the side .

Inhale on the exhalation come to all fours , turn your toes under downward facing dog , press through your arms , elongate your arms .

Thighs , press back , shoulder blades stay wide , engage the arms into the socket and then pull your chest forward , come into plank position from plank position .

Arms move forward as you go back to downward facing dog , back to playing position and back to downward dog oil those shoulders one more time , plank position , arms pull forward legs , pull back to down dog , suspending the torso , release the right knee to the ground , take the right hand and align it with the right knee .

Reach your left arm up , feel the reach of the arm straight out from the middle of your chest , broaden your chest , engage the abdominal muscles reach into the legs and then come back to all fours , tuck your toes under downward facing dog , upper arms move forward thighs , move back head released as you gaze at your legs , release the left knee to the ground .

Come onto the inside of the right foot and raise your right arm up open the chest and breathe lengthen , broaden your whole back body as you lengthen through your waist , come back to all fours , extend your right leg and then your left leg back to point position .

Reach your arm strong and long light on your wrist .

Downward face and dog pull the legs back , walk forward , then your legs look forward , take your arms out to the side into powerful poses .

Keep reaching your arms up , bend the legs a little bit deeper , lengthen through your waist even more .

And then stand up into a standing back .

Bend , open the arms into mountain post , right foot comes up to tree pose .

Pull it as high as you can bring your hands into prayer position on your chest and then reach your arms up this time , widen your arms a bit firm your shoulder blades into your back and spread your shoulder blades wide as your hands come closer together .

Breathe neck easy .

Bring your hands back to prayer position , mountain pose , bring your left foot up to tree pose , inhale , take your arms out to the side , palms together over your chest .

Inhale , raise your arms over your head , part the hands a little bit wider again , firm your shoulder blades and begin to bring the arms up by broadening and opening your side ribs , long waist , strong legs released back to mountain Popes .