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Magic Move: Stress Soother

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David Martinez

Relaxing for one minute in Child’s Pose gives your mind and muscles a chance to escape the holiday madness.

How-to: Sit back on heels with the insides of legs and feet touching. Lean forward, bowing torso over thighs and lowering forehead to mat. Extend arms forward, palms down. Relax into pose, widening knees or bending elbows a bit, as desired. Focus on breathing, taking 4–8 counts for each inhale and exhale, and relaxing deeper into pose with each exhale.


Sara Ivanhoe teaches at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, Calif., is the creator of the Yoga on the Edge DVD series, and is the featured yoga instructor on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.



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Last Updated: July 15, 2009
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  • ruby...

    Taking time to do a simple exercise like this one is crytical.If we don’t take the time to relax our life is going to be hectic and that is never good.Everyone needs to find some kind of way to relax and something like this would be great.Take this into consideration.

  • pry

    If you have a chance to do yoga, you will love it. You may not be perfect at first, but you will only get better. It’s low impact but you can still break a sweat.

  • ravi

    please let me know the yoga positions since i underwent Angiopalsty

    Regards.

    Ravi

  • Niyati

    Yoga today is very important in people’s life. Yoga is gaining more and more importance as there is a lot of stress at workplaces. Yoga is the best and easy way to reduce the stress. And I have some good yoga tips at http://www.jiyohealthy.com/category/stress/

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