Tuesday Night (not-so) Chillout #23: Core and Breath Integration

Length: 60 mins

Teacher: Lous Jackson

Don’t eat for two hours before this particular Chillout AND be ready because it’s not so “chill”.  Louis was fulfilling a request for a more robust evening core and breath integration session.

Warm up with a sacral scrub (toted VERTICAL balls), “putting your butt back on your butt” glutes massage, and half happy baby mini-vyni.   

Strengthening begins with urdhva prasartia padasana (leg raises) with courageous between the feet, bridge lifts to diaphragm vacuum, dynamic revolved abdominal pose. Coresetting continues with intercostal crunches and static oblique crunches.  Stretchy side-bending boomerangs present plenty of opportunities to work the asymmetry of the diaphragm and affected viscera.  Conclude this segment with face-down twisting triangle.

Warm down with supported bridge pose, diaphragm vacuums in traction with dead volume resets, windshield wiping the knees, and an abdominal roll-out focussed on the large intestine with pitstops at the spleen and liver while emphasizing back breathing aimed at the kidneys.

End with self guided bone breathing in starfish corpse.  Stay for as long as YOU want (not when Louis signs off).      

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