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yoga teacher Jen lorac is giving us the
101 on yoga straps
what are you go straps yoga straps are
pretty much I mean you know we say yoga
stress but you could use a scarf and it
would pretty much do the same thing you
can either keep it long or you can make
a loop with it and it can wrap around
either the foot or the hand can grab it
and it’s just something to give you a
little bit more length it’s a bit more
of our reach it helps create space at
least in the style that I teach we use
it for adjustments so wrap the strap
around the body and pull a little bit
and so it can be used in so many ways we
should be using them we could assume
that it’s beginners but it’s really not
the case it might be tailored I think
the strap was probably originally for
people that again you know couldn’t
reach the feet and stuff like that but
we can just use it to play around again
to give adjustments we can use it to
reach places that we couldn’t reach and
and to do things that maybe we couldn’t
do or grab without the strap but it’s
really I think it’s for everybody do you
think you could take us through some
postures where we actually need to use
the yoga straps yeah of course I’d be
happy to first of all here’s a way that
that we can use a strap if you don’t
feel like you have enough space if the
hamstrings are tight most of the time in
seated forward bends it’s that the
hamstrings are tight and this is what we
use to create a bit of space so
sometimes we’re gonna go around the arch
of the feet I don’t want you to do that
where it’s gonna go is around the mounds
of the toes so the mounds of toes are
not up near the toes the mounds of the
toes are right underneath here then
you’re going to wrap the strap and bring
the shoulders back and with the chest
you’re just going to move forward a bit
if you need to you can walk the hands
down the strap a bit closer and so just
you know eventually give yourself space
you can walk closer and closer until
eventually like Veronica probably can
touch the toes but again it’s not
necessarily necessary it’s really about
you know enjoying becoming more
comfortable and making life easier you
know
on your mat off your mat all around this
is another way Veronica is going to
demonstrate so as I said earlier there’s
certain binding poses so binding is
where we would get into a lunge pose go
low on the shoulder and then bring the
arms behind us in class pans that some
people aren’t flexible enough in the
shoulders whether it be the shoulders or
or other issues but so we’re going to
demo this with Veronica today so what
you’re going to do is step the right
foot forward and you’re going to turn
the back heel down and you’re just going
to bend into your front knee so I’m
going to give her the strap in the top
hand and you’re gonna hold on to the
strap so one end of the strap so no
matter where it is you have a lot to
work with
and then you’re going to bring the arm
come low down on to the leg bring the
hand to the inside of the leg she’s
gonna reach the arm around behind and
then the strap is gonna give her space
so if she were maybe only able to grab
the strap here eventually she would
start to walk her hand up so that she
could bring the hands closer the strap
and then she’s gonna bring the shoulder
back scoop the right sits bone under
lengthen up to the top of the knee and
then bring the shoulders back and even
actually Veronica can probably easily
bind the hands but maybe she leans
forward too much so the strap gives her
space in order to just move more freely
in the pose and to expand more so she’s
gonna bring the shoulder back and the
throat back and the head back and enjoy
this is really used as an assist or as a
therapeutic but it’s a really fun way to
get a really kind of good feeling in
downward dog sometimes a lot of the time
I’ll teach this towards the end of class
just to give you kind of a sweet good
feeling in the pose especially downward
dog
some of us struggle in that so what
we’re gonna do is we’re gonna start by
placing the strap around the lower back
so right around the sacrum area do not
bring it up near the waist keep it
around here and then you’re gonna loop
the strap between the legs and where the
strap is going to come up is about to
the upper inner thighs and then I’m
going to place my feet and my own inner
calves on the outer part of her shin
and then I’m just gonna sit back kind of
like a water skier and she’s gonna
prepare herself and I’m just gonna sit
back and I’m gonna pull her thighs in
back and apart and she’s just gonna let
me lift her a little bit and sometimes
if we’re playing you can always lift the
hands up and they get light for sure if
you are adjusting somebody make sure you
keep your shoulders back in that you
stay aligned you don’t want to get
injured giving somebody else with
therapeutic an assist so and then all
you have to do is tell Veronica I’m
gonna tell her just you know put some
weight into the hands I’m gonna inhale
come up and I’m gonna release and she
can bring her knees down and even bow
forward Child’s Pose
yoga teacher Jen lorac is giving us the
101 on yoga straps
what are you go straps yoga straps are
pretty much I mean you know we say yoga
stress but you could use a scarf and it
would pretty much do the same thing you
can either keep it long or you can make
a loop with it and it can wrap around
either the foot or the hand can grab it
and it’s just something to give you a
little bit more length it’s a bit more
of our reach it helps create space at
least in the style that I teach we use
it for adjustments so wrap the strap
around the body and pull a little bit
and so it can be used in so many ways we
should be using them we could assume
that it’s beginners but it’s really not
the case it might be tailored I think
the strap was probably originally for
people that again you know couldn’t
reach the feet and stuff like that but
we can just use it to play around again
to give adjustments we can use it to
reach places that we couldn’t reach and
and to do things that maybe we couldn’t
do or grab without the strap but it’s
really I think it’s for everybody do you
think you could take us through some
postures where we actually need to use
the yoga straps yeah of course I’d be
happy to first of all here’s a way that
that we can use a strap if you don’t
feel like you have enough space if the
hamstrings are tight most of the time in
seated forward bends it’s that the
hamstrings are tight and this is what we
use to create a bit of space so
sometimes we’re gonna go around the arch
of the feet I don’t want you to do that
where it’s gonna go is around the mounds
of the toes so the mounds of toes are
not up near the toes the mounds of the
toes are right underneath here then
you’re going to wrap the strap and bring
the shoulders back and with the chest
you’re just going to move forward a bit
if you need to you can walk the hands
down the strap a bit closer and so just
you know eventually give yourself space
you can walk closer and closer until
eventually like Veronica probably can
touch the toes but again it’s not
necessarily necessary it’s really about
you know enjoying becoming more
comfortable and making life easier you
know
on your mat off your mat all around this
is another way Veronica is going to
demonstrate so as I said earlier there’s
certain binding poses so binding is
where we would get into a lunge pose go
low on the shoulder and then bring the
arms behind us in class pans that some
people aren’t flexible enough in the
shoulders whether it be the shoulders or
or other issues but so we’re going to
demo this with Veronica today so what
you’re going to do is step the right
foot forward and you’re going to turn
the back heel down and you’re just going
to bend into your front knee so I’m
going to give her the strap in the top
hand and you’re gonna hold on to the
strap so one end of the strap so no
matter where it is you have a lot to
work with
and then you’re going to bring the arm
come low down on to the leg bring the
hand to the inside of the leg she’s
gonna reach the arm around behind and
then the strap is gonna give her space
so if she were maybe only able to grab
the strap here eventually she would
start to walk her hand up so that she
could bring the hands closer the strap
and then she’s gonna bring the shoulder
back scoop the right sits bone under
lengthen up to the top of the knee and
then bring the shoulders back and even
actually Veronica can probably easily
bind the hands but maybe she leans
forward too much so the strap gives her
space in order to just move more freely
in the pose and to expand more so she’s
gonna bring the shoulder back and the
throat back and the head back and enjoy
this is really used as an assist or as a
therapeutic but it’s a really fun way to
get a really kind of good feeling in
downward dog sometimes a lot of the time
I’ll teach this towards the end of class
just to give you kind of a sweet good
feeling in the pose especially downward
dog
some of us struggle in that so what
we’re gonna do is we’re gonna start by
placing the strap around the lower back
so right around the sacrum area do not
bring it up near the waist keep it
around here and then you’re gonna loop
the strap between the legs and where the
strap is going to come up is about to
the upper inner thighs and then I’m
going to place my feet and my own inner
calves on the outer part of her shin
and then I’m just gonna sit back kind of
like a water skier and she’s gonna
prepare herself and I’m just gonna sit
back and I’m gonna pull her thighs in
back and apart and she’s just gonna let
me lift her a little bit and sometimes
if we’re playing you can always lift the
hands up and they get light for sure if
you are adjusting somebody make sure you
keep your shoulders back in that you
stay aligned you don’t want to get
injured giving somebody else with
therapeutic an assist so and then all
you have to do is tell Veronica I’m
gonna tell her just you know put some
weight into the hands I’m gonna inhale
come up and I’m gonna release and she
can bring her knees down and even bow
forward Child’s Pose
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