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#AmanaAtHome challenge Day 2: Brain Break // Arm Balance or inversion ……… Puzzles are one of my favorite things to do and for my quarantine birthday I got a bunch so to keep my mind busy I’ve been doing a lot of puzzles. ……… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How to participate 👇🏼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ♾ Follow @amanayoga if you don't already⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ♾ Share this anchor post in your feed or story & commit to participate! Invite your friends to play along!⠀⠀⠀⠀ ♾ Follow along with each daily prompt and post to your feed using #AmanaAtHome. Make sure your profile is public!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ♾ Tag your friends each day in your comments for bonus entries! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pose lineup & daily themes 🧘🏻‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1. Be Thankful // Forward Fold⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 2. Brain Break // Arm Balance or Inversion ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 3. Live Your Yoga // Warrior of Choosing⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 4. Amana Flow // Standing Pose or Standing Balance⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 5. Happy Hour Restorative // Favorite Restorative Shape⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 6. Give thanks // Heart Opener or Backbend ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 7. Sunday Soul Flow // Yogis Choice⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We can't wait to see what you share! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #amanayoga #amanayogaonline #instagramchallenge #yogachallenge #yogaposechallenge #amanaathome #yoga #yogaposes #virtualyoga #inversion #forearmstand #pinchamayurasana #brainbreak #liveyouryoga #boulderyoga #boulderco (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_hyTm6jLNq/?igshid=m14zy3mqazye

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Twisting wrings out your organs and helps to clear out stuck and stagnant blood and bring in fresh nutrients. Another way to clear out the stuck and bring in the new to your body is through cleansing. Replacing your typical vices with better for you foods. Clearing out that old, stagnant feeling and giving your body room to grow and move. Join @amanayoga and @aliajess for our 30-Day Cleanse to clear your body of toxins and get yourself ready to be light and moving this spring! Having a group to keep you on track is amazingly helpful. DM me for more info on how to sign up. •••••••••••••• #amanayoga #cleanse #twist #challenge #chairpose #springclearout (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNDtQJHDInu/?igshid=soslux7fdj2p

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Inversions at @amanayoga this week. Look hard, are hard to do correctly. Let’s start with headstand. Your first thought looking at my photo might be, what’s with the blanket? Well 2 reasons: 1 - it gives me space between the floor, my head, and my shoulders giving me the strength to hold myself. Try it, kneel on the floor, clasp your hands on the floor in front of you and put the top of your head just inside your clasped hands. Now push down into the floor engaging your shoulders. Does your head leave the ground? You might want a blanket too. Reason 2 - padding. You know the soft spot on a baby’s head? Well I’ve still got some of mine. A little pinky finger sized hole in the top of my skull. Headstands are supposed to be 80% arms and 20% head. Because pressure on my head does not feel good, I try to stay around 90/10 only using my head to correct my balance. (When in headstand you want the point of the head touching the ground to be right in front of where your soft spot would be) ••••••••••••••••••• #amanayoga #headstand #sirsasana #inversions #props #softspot (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMferPxDv88/?igshid=d11tkbvx0373

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Hip flexors The muscles we use to bring our knee to our chest and to bend at the hips. It’s a common area to be very tight in because we spend so much time sitting and keeping our legs in front of us. We don’t hang out with our legs extended behind us that much so the hip flexors are usually contracted. Lunges are a great way to stretch hip flexors. Just kneeling on one knee with both legs at right angles will stretch your hip flexors. You don’t need to be as extended as I am to get the benefits of a lunge. •••••••••••• @amanayoga hips all week! #amanayoga #hips #lowlunge #hipflexors #stretch #yoga (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAgGcED_eq/?igshid=40aobvr0migw

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Hips and hamstrings. Your hips are as tight as the muscles that surround them. That includes hamstrings. I don’t know if my hamstrings will ever release and make me feel flexible. But I try my best to stretch them daily and as much as possible. It’s likely that you will find me on the floor with my strap at some point during the day. Weither it’s after a workout, during a yoga session or just watching tv in my pajamas. ••••••••••• @amanayoga classes in North Boulder Park and online at 12pm mst today. Let us help you release your hammies and hips #amanayoga #yoga #hips #hamstrings (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9oUbZnkNe/?igshid=1hmwfjblovkqt

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Hips My problem area. Everyone’s problem area. If you’ve taken a lot of yoga classes or have ever taken an aerial yoga class you know that we hold emotions in our hips and that is why we feel like our hips are tight all. The. Time. If you need to open your hips, check out @amanayoga classes this week. Hips is the focus. Indoor, outdoor or online, we got what your hips need. •••••••••••••• #hips #yoga #baddhakonasana #amanayoga #doingthings #outdoorvoices (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4yrBtDcDZ/?igshid=1ffopt4nefha0

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Warrior 2. Probably the most well known warrior. In the journey of becoming a warrior (thanks @amanayoga for the weekly inspiration), this pose is where it all started for me, or at least it feels like it. I remember doing this pose with @diamondfit1 as a little kid and it always felt so powerful but, can I put my arms down? This pose isn’t a starting point, it is a transition. It’s strong and firm. It holds its ground. It is the pose waiting to be told what to do next. It is building power and ready to..... I’ll tell you tomorrow ••••••••••• #yoga #warrior2 #virabhadrasana2 #amanayoga #becomingawarrior #athomeyogapractice #doingthings (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzSM5nDnFO/?igshid=14jjo1fxs1k5m

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Becoming a Warrior is the theme this week at @amanayoga, my home studio 😁 Warrior 1 feels and looks like ‘becoming a warrior.’ It is strong and forward moving. It looks and feels fierce. There are a lot of places to go from here. Did you know that virabhadrasana (warrior pose) is dedicated and named after Virabhadra, a great warrior that arose from the locks of hair Siva threw to the ground after hearing that his love, Sati, threw herself into a fire and perished? This story continues but now you, like me, will think every time you are in warrior 1 that you are a warrior created by the power of love. ••••••••••••• #amanayoga #virabhadrasana1 #warrior1 #athomeyogapractice (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxR76VDP_M/?igshid=3sg1mreyhd35