Elena Miss Yoga – Ashtanga Vinyasa, Power Yoga, Vinyasa and Flow Instructor based in East London

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Collective negativity Many believe that we will n

Collective negativity

Many believe that we will never go back to life as we knew before COVID-19.

Many believe that we will have to adapt to the NEW NORMAL.

Personally, and this is just my opinion, I don’t have scientific facts supporting my positivity, I believe we will.

Over hundreds of years, we faced many pandemics, plagues, bubonic plagues outbreaks, epidemics in many forms (sweating sickness, yellow fever, etc…) Here in the UK the black Deaths plague (in 1348) killed a third of the entire population, and we rebuilt life.

We knew less and we survived.

I believe in research, I believe in researcher and I believe we will go back to hug friends and family. I don’t know when, but it will happen.

I am not blindly optimistic, I am hopeful.

Life without hope is sad.

What do you hope for?
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Barre Booty workout using a core mini ball ⚽ Th

Barre Booty workout using a core mini ball ⚽

The key to these exercises is to reach fatigue, that sweet point when your muscles shiver.
That is called endurance and makes your muscles and joints stronger and burns fat like crazy.

Exercises:

1) Bridge butt lifts squeeze a core mini ball between the legs

2) Bridge butt lifts with on foot on the ball and the other on tippy toes

3) Ball between hamstring and calf. Leg lifts, hips parallel to the ground

4) Ball between hamstring and calf. Leg lifts to the side

5) Ball between hamstring and calf. Gluteus Rotation to the side

6) Ball between hamstring and calf. Leg lifts pulses

Each exercise repeated for 1 minute x leg
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Ashtanga Yoga Standing Poses In the Ashtanga Viny

Ashtanga Yoga Standing Poses

In the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition, after we performed 5 Surya Namaskar A and 5 B, we continue the practice with the standing Asanas.

In order:
Padangushtasana
Utthita Trikonasa A and B
Utthita Parsva Konasana A and B
Prasarita Padottanasana A B C D
Parsvottanasana
Utthita Hasta Padangushtasana
Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana
Utkatasana
Virabhadrasana A and B

For more details about the Ashtanga Vinyasa primary and intermediate series visit my website www.elenamissyoga.com
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Patriarchy The best way to control women is to co

Patriarchy

The best way to control women is to convince them to control themselves.

"I need to be thinner"
"I have to be stronger"
"I have to be a good girl"
"The good wife"
"The best mum"
"I can't cry now"
"I can't have an extra piece of cake"

We need to break this appalling vicious cycle.
Not easy after centuries of indoctrination but possible nonetheless.

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Pincha Hollowback Tilting the hips and curling th

Pincha Hollowback

Tilting the hips and curling the back to create a hollowback shape are complex movements that require lots of body awareness and mobility.

Before attempting the shape upside down, I strongly suggest starting with your feet down. There are many prep poses and here I show how I teach and do my warmup.

1 Pincha Hollowback with straddle legs demonstration

2 Puppy pose using yoga blocks (position 1) underneath the elbows and arms.
Instead of keeping the arms extended forward, bend the elbows (Pincha arms position)
Press the chest to the floor
Look forward
Chin on the mat or if you have enough flexibility off the mat
Tilt of the hips
Fully extend the legs for an extra challenge or place the blocks in position 2
Breathe here for at least 2 minutes

3 Puppy pose at the wall placing yoga blocks underneath the forearm.
This specific exercise is great to open the chest.
Look up if you can
Breathe here for at least 2 minutes

4 Pincha Hollowback using the wall.
Usually, I don't teach inversions by giving the back to the wall. However, here we are using the wall to deepen the hollowback and sink the hips even lower.

Day 9 #WEALOVEPINCHA

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Favourite shapes? Personally, I don't have any. I

Favourite shapes?

Personally, I don't have any.
I love to explore different shapes and listen to what my body has to say whilst performing them.

Here: eagle legs and hollowback with lotus legs

Day 8 #WEALOVEPINCHA

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Strong core and shoulders are essential for a heal

Strong core and shoulders are essential for a healthy Pincha.

These two exercises are designed to strengthen both your shoulders and awaken the core.

1) Forearm plank back and forth
Press the forearm and hands on the mat
Create an hollow shape in the chest area
Belly squeezed in
Body weight evenly distributed between the four points of contact.
- Inhale push the heels and body weight forward
- Exhale come back
Repeat x 10 times

2) From Down dog to dolphin pose, these hurt so good
Lower both arms at the same time
Keep the forearm parallel, don't open the elbow
Heels on the floor. If you don't have enough flexibility bend your knees
- Inhale lower the elbows down to dolphin pose
- Exhale press back up to down dog
Repeat x 10 times

Day 6 #WEALOVEPINCHA

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@elena_miss_yoga
@raybeau_yoga
@lightfulyogini2.0
@kimterpstra_yoga

Sponsored by
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Pincha scorpion Not an easy one. After the surger

Pincha scorpion

Not an easy one. After the surgery, I had back in September, I still struggle finding a deep expression of the pose but I am not in rush.

Tips:
Strong shoulders
Press the forearm firmly into the mat
Don't collapse the collar bone
Chest open
Chest puffed up and forward
Long neck
Chin up and forward
Feet engaged
Core engaged

Here three useful drills:
Chest opener using @feetup or a regular chair
Stretch of the Ileo-psoas and quads
Using #feetuptrainer , or chair, or couch or bed work at shifting the gaze back and forth.
Each time you look towards your feet, relax and deepen the bend.

Day 4 #WEALOVEPINCHA

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@elena_miss_yoga
@raybeau_yoga
@lightfulyogini2.0
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Props Props Props… Who doesn't love Props? Pr

Props Props Props… Who doesn't love Props?

Props are great allies for beginners as well as for experienced practitioners.

Here I show you how to use:
A yoga block
A yoga wheel
The wall

A Yoga Block placed between the hands.
The block isn't used to keep the hands in place, but to offer a broader balancing surface ideal to create muscle memory when you will find hanging time.
A Yoga block is great for balance not for alignment.
If you struggle keeping the elbows in line, with the shoulders and tend to open them externally, keep working at your dolphin pose.

Yoga Wheel. Very useful for balancing and deepening backbend

Facing the wall come to a pincha L Shape and try to lift one leg at a time. This is great to overcome the fear of falling and strengthen your shoulders.

Day 3 #WEALOVEPINCHA

Hosts
@elena_miss_yoga
@raybeau_yoga
@lightfulyogini2.0
@kimterpstra_yoga

Sponsored by
@aloyoga @alomoves

My Mat @liforme
Music @kennyleeyoung
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