Blindfolded Yoga
by Owl Rare
Owlrare welcomes you to a beautiful morning practice to get you feeling good and grounded! Love this practice because you can let go of the ego and allow yourself to be in the present moment. Great practice for anyone who wants to dive deeper into the subconscious awareness
Transcript
Blessings,
Family.
This is Owl Rare,
And I am so excited to welcome you to this blind yoga practice.
Now what you're going to do is just slowly start to set up your mat in a nice place in your home.
And when you're ready,
Just allowing yourself to find yourself standing at the top of your mat.
Hands coming to heart center.
From here,
Allowing your chin to come down towards your chest.
Allowing the eyes to softly close.
Allowing the shoulders to roll up on the next inhale towards the ears.
And as you exhale,
Rolling the shoulders down and around the back.
Deep breath in,
Shoulders up to ears.
Raise the hands up to the sky.
On the exhale,
Find your first forward fold.
Allowing a slight bend at your knees here.
So you can feel the belly connecting to the top parts of your legs.
If you need to bend your knees a little bit deeper,
Feel free to do so.
Inhale to halfway lift,
Slightly pressing the hands above or below the knees.
On the exhale,
Coming back down into your forward fold.
Inhale the arms raise up to the sky.
Exhale hands back at heart center.
Inhale the arms raise.
Exhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
On the exhale,
Press your hands down at the top of your mat.
Walking the feet back until you find yourself in a high plank.
High plank is really just having your hips in line with your shoulders.
Heels pressed down towards the floor.
So find your starting push up position.
Make sure your butt isn't too high in the sky and if it is it's okay.
We're staying with our breath.
Inhale shoulders come over the wrists as you press down all the way to your bellies.
Lift yourself up for an upward facing dog.
On the exhale finding your way into downward facing dog.
Deep breath in.
On the exhale slowly walking the feet to meet the hands finding a forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
Exhale deep fold.
Inhale hands come to hips.
On the exhale come all the way up to stand.
Inhale the arms raise.
Exhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
Exhale press the hands down coming into high plank.
Exhale here.
Exhale coming through vinyasa.
So vinyasa we're coming through that chaturanga again.
We're bending the elbows.
On the inhale we're lifting our heart up to the sky dropping our hips down to the floor.
On the exhale sending your hips up high.
Head floats through the gates of the arms.
Take a few moments here in downward facing dog.
Any intentions for your day?
For your practice?
From down dog we'll bend at the knees.
Inhale bringing the gaze forward.
On the exhale slowly walking the feet to meet the hands finding a full forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift.
Exhale deep fold.
Inhale bend the knees root to rise as the arms raise up to the sky.
On the exhale coming to a stand with the hands at heart center.
Now from here we're going to sweep the arms by your sides floating them up to the sky and then sitting back as if you're in a chair.
Deep breath in chair pose.
Exhale.
Deep breath in.
Exhale.
Deep breath in.
On the exhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
On the exhale press the hands down.
Find your way through vinyasa.
Inhale upward facing dog.
Exhale downward facing dog.
Five breaths here.
Five moments to connect deeper to you.
Exhaling to let go.
Inhaling to bring in all of the new.
All that you've been calling for is coming to you with each inhale and all that no longer serves you is melting away through the extremities of the body into the floor to mother earth to be transmuted into flowers or transmute the poison from our lives into the flowers that shine and bring us laughter and joy in each day.
From down dog we bend the knees deep breath in bringing the gaze forward.
On the exhale hop step or float the feet to meet the hands coming into a full forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
Exhale deep fold.
Bending the knees the arms lift up.
We're coming back into chair pose inhale.
On the exhale press the hands at your heart and stand tall.
Mountain pose.
Inhale the arms raise into chair pose.
Exhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift.
Exhale coming through vinyasa.
Inhale upward facing dog.
Exhale downward facing dog.
Five deep breaths here and downward facing dog.
For one.
For two.
For three really letting go here.
For four deep breath in bending at the knees bringing the gaze forward.
On the exhale hop step or float the feet to meet the hands full forward fold.
Exhaling emptying the belly completely.
Inhale halfway lift the spine.
Exhale hold it there.
Inhale hands to hips.
Exhale root to rise all the way up to stand keeping a nice straight spine.
Inhale chair pose.
Exhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift.
Exhale coming through vinyasa.
Inhale upward facing dog.
Exhale downward facing dog.
From downward facing dog the left leg lifts up on an inhale.
Stay here and stay with your breath on the exhale grounding the right heel down towards the floor.
Left leg lifts up higher inner thighs are working towards each other.
Stay connected to your core.
Stay connected to your breath.
Allow more space for yourself to be in this pose.
Deep breath in that left leg lifts higher.
On the exhale swing your left knee in towards your chest lifting pressing up into your hands rounding into your upper back.
Inhale.
Exhale hold it here.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Inhale extend that left leg back up to the sky.
On the exhale lowering your left leg down coming through vinyasa.
Inhale upward facing dog.
Exhale downward facing dog.
Or child's pose.
Five breaths here.
Allowing the cadence of your breath to guide you deeper into your practice.
Letting go of what no longer serves you here.
Creating more space more room for love.
Eventually we'll all meet in downward facing dog when you're ready.
And this time the right leg lifts up to the sky.
Left heel grounds deeper inner thighs work towards each other.
Three legged dog.
Deep breath in.
And on the exhale bringing your right knee in towards your chest pressing into the hands.
You really want to press in with a pointer finger and the thumb.
You really want to press in on those fingers the most.
That's where you want to concentrate your energy so that there's more space for you to utilize the shoulders correctly.
For you to open up the back side of the body a bit deeper.
Inhale.
On the exhale we're sending that right leg back up to the sky.
Deep breath in.
Exhale coming through vinyasa.
Exhale upward facing dog.
Exhale downward facing dog.
Five breaths here.
That's five.
That's four.
For three.
For two.
Nice job.
Inhale we bend the knees bringing the gaze forward.
On the exhale hot step or float the feet to meet the hands.
Hiding a full forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift hands to hips.
On the exhale come all the way up to stand.
Inhale the arms raise up to the sky.
On the exhale hold the hands at your heart.
Just take a few moments here to breathe.
Take a few moments here to connect a little bit deeper.
Inhale the arms raise.
Inhale forward fold.
Inhale halfway lift.
Exhale plant the hands down hop step or float through vinyasa.
If you float come to bend elbows.
Inhale upward facing.
Exhale downward facing dog.
From down dog walk your feet to the outsides of your hands allowing the elbows to come to the insides of the knees pressing the hands together finding your way into your deep yogi squat.
Five deep breaths here in this beautiful yogi squat.
If you need to grab a block or anything feel free to do so.
Otherwise we're here for a few more breaths.
You're doing great.
Nice work yogis.
Now when you're ready we'll plant the hands down to the floor.
See if it's in your practice if you have crow in your practice we're working our way into crow from here for guidance we're bringing our knees above where the bend in our elbow is right to the back of our tricep.
And then we're going to shift to lean the weight forward maybe lifting up left leg then the right leg coming up to balance.
Take a deep breath in here on the exhale if it's in your practice you can send those legs back through your vinyasa or just slowly stepping out coming through vinyasa and we'll meet in downward facing dog.
Nice breath inhale and exhale.
Once you're in your downward facing dog we'll take a deep breath in bending into the knees bringing the gaze forward on the exhale this time hop step or float the feet again to the outside of the hands coming into your deep yogi squat.
Left hand to the floor right hand to the inside of the right leg just opening up that right hip twisting your body to the right side deep breath in exhale gaze towards the sky inhale exhale inhale on the exhale release it out other side right hand to the floor left hand to the inside of the left knee opening up that hip twisting to the left deep breath in exhale inhale in exhale let out last deep breath in exhale let it out from here coming back into your yogi squat take a deep breath in on the exhale slowly press your hands down and take your time as you lengthen out the backs of your legs and then slowly swing side to side like an elephant's trunk coming all the way up to stand deep breath in the arms raise exhale hands come back to heart center inhale take one last deep breath in final sun salutation as we raise the hands up exhale as we dive down a forward fold inhale halfway lift exhale coming through your final vinyasa inhale upward facing exhale downward facing dog from down dog if you can hop your way through the seated feel free to do so otherwise find your way to a comfortable seat you can walk your feet forward you can come down to your knees cross your ankles behind you whatever works for you we're finding our way onto our butt and then from here we're just going to extend the legs long take your time as you work your way onto your back arms extend wide legs extend wide taking five minutes here to just allow that beautiful morning practice to really resonate and integrate into every cell of your body allow yourself here to really connect to your true power when you free your mind you free your body when you heal your mind you heal your body and that's why we show up on our mats sometimes our minds just get so messy and this is our place to come and just bring some love and awareness to our minds so that we can allow ourselves to create a deeper connection to our bodies so that we can shine a true light into the world understanding that vibrations are contagious so when you leave this practice when you feel these good vibes know that just by being you today you will be bringing more positivity into the world all because you showed up on your mat no one else can do this for you but you oh When you're ready,
Slowly starting to wiggle the fingers,
Wiggle the toes,
Deepening the breath in and out through the nose.
We'll take our time to slowly plant down the left and right foot.
Knees extend up to the sky,
Bringing the knees in towards your chest,
Wrapping the arms around the legs,
Big squeeze here,
Deep breath in.
On the exhale,
Rolling over to the left or right side,
The left side connecting to your creativity,
The right side connecting you to your focus and organization.
When you're ready,
The top arm plants down to the floor as we find our way up into a seat.
Deep breath in,
The arms raise here,
Exhale,
Hands come to heart center.
May this practice guide you into a beautiful day.
Thank you all so much for spending this time with me on Insight Timer.
It was such a pleasure.
My name's Awer rare and I'll see you again soon.
Much wealth,
Much health and much peace to you.
Namaste.
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Sherrie
March 3, 2023
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