Stretches for your legs



While we take our aeareness from our arm stretches to the other parts of the body that require similar stretches, we can now focus on our legs. As we start to shoe interest in these stretches, our subconscious mind starts creating the niche time and the ambience for us to practise those, so that consistency is assured fir good results.

Take your sturdy, wooden dining chair. Avoid the plastic ones. Keep the chair in front of you. Stand on your left leg, while you slowly life your right leg and place it on the seat. Stay there for five counts, done in your mind.

You can press the leg resting perpendicular on the seat of the chair, by holding onto the wood back. There's a stretch on your glutes. There's also a stretch on your lower back. Repeat with the other leg.

Do this like your arm stretches- whenever you have some time to spare; repeat the next day, and the next, and the next.This sets off a pattern in us. And ...before we know it, your legs want that stretch very badly!!



Comments

  1. Eudomonia28 October 2021 at 12:34

    Great way to even relax those muscles after a hectic day. Your way of explaining is very fluid and vivid... It's really easy to imagine and feels like I'm already flowing into the motion.

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