Healthista’s new video series features yoga experts talking about how to use yoga to your greatest health benefit. This week, Kat and Kirsty from brilliant yoga streaming site Movement for Modern Life bring you a yoga sequence to aid digestion
Welcome to Yoga For…. a new video series every Friday with the yoga experts at Movement for Modern Life, the online home to the best yoga teachers in the UK. This ten minute brings you the best moves for aiding your body’s natural digestive processes and energies. Let us know what you think on Twitter and Facebook and scroll down for a great offer on membership.
This sequence is designed to stimulate your digestion system and the area surrounding it. Often, this area of our body can get stagnant, especially if we sit a lot. This short class will help you deepen your breath to expand your intake of oxygen which in turn stimulates all the organs of the body to work efficiently. As the digestion is one of our ways of eliminating, it’s one to take good care of.
The sequence
- Deep belly breathing on your back
- Knee to Chest Pose – great to relieve constipation or gas
- Single leg Knee to Chest Pose
- Core Work
- Pelvic Tilts
- Bridge Rolls to Bridge
- Boat pose
- Belly Rest
- Bow Pose
- Childs Pose
- Rest
Reader offer
We’re excited to offer Healthista readers an exclusive FREE 14-day trial at Movement for Modern Life with a massive 50% off an annual subscription. Instead the usual £131/year you would just pay £65.90/year for unlimited views of hundreds of videos featuring top yoga teachers (the equivalent of just £6.60/month). Simply enter HEALTHISTA at www.movementformodernlife.com when you check out and enjoy!
Kirsty Norton is a yoga passionista and teaches people how to live life to the fullest. If you want to be the best version of yourself, you have to make changes. Simple, steady steps are what it takes to create fulfilment. Listening to the language of the body is what creates balance. She has been doing yoga for over 25 years and educates people in the language of health and movement.
Kirsty has been teaching since 2004. She teaches people the potency of breath, movement, meditation and relaxation and how effective these tools are to realising the infinite possibilities available to us all.
Kat Farrants is the founder of Movement for Modern Life the online home to the best yoga teachers in the UK. Kat has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. She was a corporate lawyer for a decade but only found the real wonder of yoga as a tool in the toolbox for thriving through life after surviving a bad car crash and unexpected divorce. Kat’s mission is to bring the very best teachers of yoga, movement and breath-work to people in an accessible and easy way. She believes yoga is an invaluable tool for people to deal with the challenges which they face in life.
Read more:
Celebrity trainer secrets: Chris Hemsworth
Healthista’s 30 day HIIT challenge
20 best fitness tips ever from a celebrity trainer
The truth about C-sections – a doctor’s guide
8 best wireless headphones for working out
Polyamory – would you have more than one partner?
Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox.
