NEW! Pose of the Week tutorial video + instructional photos - Kapotanasana 🧘🏾‍♀️ (Patreon)

Blessings Nude Yogis 🙏🏽

Let's open those hips with this week's juicy hip opener - Kapotanasana aka 'Pigeon Pose'. 

A favourite amongst many, but also not so much for others, this hip opener serves to be equally intense as it is juicy. 

A beginner-intermediate-friendly pose, I share various modifications to try to make this pose as accessible as possible...even for a beginner.  

This pose is not only a hip opener, but is also a heart/chest opener and has a slight backbend quality to it. 

This pose is great for runners and those who may suffer with sciatica. 

Benefits of this pose can include:

• increases external range of motion of femur in hip socket
• lengthens hip flexors
• prepares body for backbends
• prepares body for seated postures
• can help to re-establish a healthy lumbar curve and improve posture
• can help to reduce lower back pain
• can promote circulation and digestion in the abdomen, thus improving metabolic function and digestion
• helps improve the breathing at the upper diaphragm with the opening of the chest muscle
• great for sciatica
• great pose for runners
• overall amazing hip opener!

Be sure to have a look through the instructional photos also.

Preparatory poses: practice these poses before coming into Kapotanasana. These preparatory poses will assist you in feeling more supported and ready to get into the pose.

• downward dog (folder 4)
• low lunge (folder 39)

⚠️PLEASE PRACTICE WITH CAUTION/OR AVOID IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:⚠️

• avoid if you have a knee injury
• avoid if you have sacroiliac injury

You will find all the material, including the tutorial video and instructional photos, in our Dropbox folder via the link below (in folder 54)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fiuyzjv6kdx1xxs/AACZKVJBEoOdrU5UqQzx3Mrqa?dl=0 

**If you find this pose a little too intense, you can also practice the 'reclined pigeon' (supta kapotasana) variation, which you can find in folder 44

I have also added the tutorial video to my 'Online Naked Yoga' showcase folder over on Vimeo, via the link below

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6953714

This month's (October) password to access this Vimeo showcase, where all of our classes and tutorials are uploaded, is: nudeyogi482

*this password and Dropbox link will expire at the end of this month (October 2022) and a new password is created at the beginning of each month to ensure that only Patrons with an active membership have access to this exclusive content.

**if this password and link does not seem to be working, please ensure that you have the current month’s (the month in which you are reading this in real-time) updated password to this folder before freaking out and thinking that you don’t have access. If you’re able to see this post, you have access to the current password also; it just means you need to read my most recent posts for the updated password.

In joy the juice in this pose!

Namaste,

Jessa

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