by Nina

Recently on Thursdays we’ve been featuring our essential office yoga poses and today is the day when we get to put them together into a sequence! This mini sequence is very well rounded, and even follows the format of traditional Iyengar sequence: a warm-up pose (Half Dog Pose) followed by “standing poses,” a backbend, a twist, and a forward bend. As always, when you are practicing a sequence, feel free to skip any poses that don’t work for you and to add in any favorites you can’t live without.

1. Half Dog at the Wall (or desk, chair, kitchen counter, whatever). See here for details.

2. Standing Leg Stretches. See here for details and for the sequence of three leg stretches.

3. Seated Backbend. See here for details.

4. Seated Twist. See here for details.

5. Seated Forward Bend. See here for details.

We’ll be featuring even more office yoga poses in the coming weeks, and our grand finale will be full-length office yoga sequence. But realistically, when we’re traveling or taking a break at work, most of us only have time for a quick practice. So, enjoy! And if you have any fun stories about practicing office yoga under unusual circumstances, we’d love to hear them. I recently did some yoga on an airplane, and my favorite pose out of everything I tried that day was the standing forward bend I did in the corner at the back of the airplane by the bathroom, using a bit of wall space there to support my buttocks. Ahhh!

 

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