Hey! Stormy Grey Bank Holiday Sunday here! Think we were spoilt last summer and the Irish weather has returned to it’s normal cloudy setting. So I haven’t even gone out yet today and it is 3pm in the afternoon. On the upside I leisurely browsed for a good yoga routine to follow and found a great one! Side stretches… “Oooo” I hear you say with wondrous excitement! Indeed it is wondrous- I am stretched in places I didn’t know needed stretching… I actually feel taller! Certainly more awake after the headstand at the end- nothing like blood to the head to make one think a bit clearer!

So with no further ado….

Yoga for a sunny Sunday. I am not claiming that the Yoga will make the sun shine… more pointing out the weather…Unusually sunny November morning, made extra special by the fact it has been cold and or rainy for a couple of days. I made it fabulously warm by leaving a ring on my hob on (again) so a hint of Bikram (again) too! 🙂

I am posting two videos, the first is a warm up that gets into the spine and the second a lovely one to follow- an overall wake up including opening up the hips. I have to do a pigeon pose in my routine or I feel I have not done yoga. Is there a group for pigeon pose addicts? Can expect to find myself find myself dropping pens at work in order to fall into pigeon pose to pick them up?

Here is the follow up one!

They suited me perfectly this morning. After a Sunday lie on it is good to be nice to yourself. These routines are gentle yet I still found I had stretched myself from my baby toes to the top of my head. Later when I am more awake I might do a short faster paced routine to keep my energy up. Hope you enjoy them too! Xs Aissa

I followed this routine yesterday and I about to do it again.It sent me about my afternoon limber and in a good mood! If there is synchronisity maybe one of you guys will be doing with me! It’s a lovely energising routine with lots of sun salutes. In fact being no attention span girl,about half way through I couldn’t take a repeating them again I did a few of my own favourite poses in between. At the end I did a head stand against the wall,child pose, a shoulder stand that brought me down into corpse pose-savasana. In the last yoga video I shared there is a good advise on how to do safe head stand. I really liked the way she included the variations of regularly poses all in one go, esp. pigeon. Hope you get as much out of it! Xs Aissa