Round Out Your Practice: Flexibility
Try this series for a practice that promises to increase flexibility.
By Cyndi Lee
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 OM: Chant three times.
BREATHING EXERCISE: Sit in Easy Pose and slowly deepen your breathing. Then touch your bottom ribs. Notice how they move when you are breathing. Feel the space in between the bottom rib and the one above it. Then touch the next rib up. Keep going all the way up. Notice the solid feeling of your ribs, the texture between them, and the delicate power of your breath.
WARM-UP VINYASA: Repeat this sequence slowly four times:
Mountain Pose
Upward Salute
Standing Forward Bend
Half Standing Forward Bend (with flat back)
Standing Forward Bend
Upward Salute
Mountain
SUN SALUTATION: Do the following sequences four times, twice on each side:
Mountain
Upward Salute
Standing Forward Bend
Step the right foot back into a lunge
Down Dog
Plank
Knees-chest-chin
Low Cobra
Down Dog
Step forward with right leg into a lunge
Standing Forward Bend
Upward Salute
Mountain
On the third Sun Salutation, add warriors I and II to the right side after Down Dog. On the fourth add Warriors I and II to the left side.
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