May 1. We practiced Prone Savasana for opening up the chest and moving the head of the arm bones back into the shoulder socket. The set up that I show in the video works for some but not all students. Variations may need to be made for individual issues. Click on the picture to see the video on how to set this up.
April 24. In this session on the upper body we have been working on opening up the armpit chest. One of the ways we did that was using the rope wall.
Here is a picture of a senior Iyengar Teacher, Lois Steinberg, demonstrating it. Click on the picture to see her instructional video on Rope I.
In this pose we are trying to get the arms parallel to the floor.
In this photo, I am doing the same arm stretch in the photo above by supporting my arms on a height. You can see that it takes some ingenuity to get the exactly correct height.
April 17. Click on the photo of the chest/heart opening movement over the trestle pictured here to see the video of how to so this. Make sure you do this every time you come to my home studio.
April 10. I made a video of the chest opening restorative pose we did. Click on the picture to see the video.
