Yoga @ Your Desk:
Yoga Position #20: Hips Like the King
by Blake More
Why travel to India for answers when you have the King? Dead or alive, Elvis is the guru of love, and his hips a welcome inspiration to the pressures of seated life. In fact, one yoga friend swears nirvana comes when we connect with our Inner Elvis.
Objective: This kingly posture awakens the pelvic area and limbers the waist and hips, getting you ready for some spine-tingling rock'n and roll'n. The mantra, "more hips, less lips," will help you maintain Elvis consciousness.
1. Stand up (for added effect, you can picture a microphone in front of you) and position your feet hip-width apart.
2. Place your hands on your hips, and keeping your eyes soft, pick a spot in front of you to focus on.
3. Gently press your lips together and begin breathing through your nose (you can pout if you want to).
4. Take 3 easy, but full breaths.
5. On the inhale, with your back erect, begin circling your hips slowly in a clockwise direction, making them as wide as you can comfortably without falling over.
6. Breathe freely but fully and continue making circles, for a total of ten.
7. Circle the hips ten more times in the opposite direction.
8. Take a moment and thank the King within.
Blake More
Certified yoga instructor Blake More writes regularly forYoga Journal and Alternative Medicine Digest.. Before she learned to breathe and stand on her head at the same time, Blake was a dedicated stress junkie and pastry queen whose main source of fitness was running to catch trains in Tokyo.
Now, much to her amazement, she has traded city thrills for bucolic serenity, practicing yoga next to three mama goats, two bunnies and lots of chickens. She is currently working on her third book.
For more of Blake's tips on how to be a body-wise business person, check out her book, The Definitive Guide to Headaches.
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