Cardio & Breathing: 12-Min Yoga Flow (10 for 30 #10)

So you're looking towards your left foot. You're twisting and opening your hips, stretching your hips at the same time. Hands down, you can have your hands flat or your knuckles again. Let's do eight more of these jumps or quick steps.

One, two, three, four, halfway. Five, six, seven, eight. And one bonus, nine. Left foot forward, right knee down.

Grab your left knee and look towards your right foot. One thing about breathing, I used to say that you can always start breathing through your mouth because it's impossible to breathe through the nose all the time. But after watching a documentary about Indians in the jungle, they run for hours without breathing through the mouth. They can actually breathe through the mouth and run a double marathon.

It's crazy. The reason we should do this is because you have several benefits breathing through your nose than through your mouth. So it will be impossible in the beginning because you're used to breathing through your mouth when you do cardio. But eventually we work towards breathing through the nose at all times.

Even if it's impossible, you still try. Let's get back to all fours with knees on the ground. And then tuck your toes under and lift your knees maybe two inches off the floor. And then you turn towards your left, place your heel down, your left heel down, and stretch your right leg out so you're kind of moving your right shoulder and your left knee away from each other.

And then you're pushing the right foot away as far as you can. But if you go too far, it's going to be hard to lift the right foot off the floor. So this is the goal, to be able to have a flat foot and lift the whole leg two inches off the floor. Retract the leg and start over on all fours.

Kick your left foot towards the right, sit down. Make sure you're not kicking backwards, you're kicking 90 degrees out to the side. Change your shoulder and your knee and lift off and retract. So the technique is important because when you go fast, you don't want to hurt your knee or shoulder, you want to have integrity in the pose.

Kicking from all fours, from side to side. It's not a martial arts kick, it's more, it's only coordination and mobility exercise. But when we do it fast, we quickly turn it into a cardio exercise as well. From side to side, kick, try to lower your hips without sitting down on the ground and keep integrity in your shoulder and your knee.

Let's go for ten quick ones. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Sit down on your butt, stretch your left knee out to the side and then just try to catch your left foot with your right hand. If you can't reach it, just grab the calf or ankle instead and lower your head down with your forehead towards your left knee.

Deep breaths. And let's do the last ten. Back to all fours. And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and one more.

Eleven, right leg straight. Catch your foot with your left hand or grab your calf. Use your other hand for balance so your left foot and your right hand are pushing in towards the middle and then relax your neck, round your spine and breathe. Sit back up, cross your ankles.

Let's talk a little bit. Let's have a little chat. You just completed ten days, ten minutes a day and what I want to emphasize is not the time you did each session. That is not important.

You could have done five minutes or fifty minutes. The important thing, the revolutionary thing is that you made a system. You dedicated ten minutes each day for ten days and if you can do ten days, there is no problem to do ten minutes every day. You can make it happen and I believe that you eventually will make it happen and it doesn't matter if you falter and you don't do it for three days.

You're going to want to come back to this system of practicing a little bit of yoga every day. Some days you're going to do ten minutes. Some days you're going to feel like you need thirty or forty minutes eventually but the most important thing is that you always try to come back even if you go out and forget about it for a couple of days. You always try to come back and make it a habit.

It's just like brushing your teeth. You don't want to skip three days of brushing your teeth because the feeling is not right in your mouth. There is literally a bad taste in your mouth if you forget to brush your teeth but it's going to be the same when you make yoga a habit. It's not going to take so much discipline.

How much mental effort do you need to brush your teeth? 10% like one thousandth of your willpower is needed to brush your teeth. The goal is to take yoga from something that is really weird and awkward and strange and make it super familiar and comfortable. Like in Jiu Jitsu when you tie your belts and your pants the first time it takes a lot of mental effort but when you do it enough the brain works in this way.

The nature of the brain is to take complicated things and make them into a habit. That's my goal is to help you create yoga a habit. Just like you have perfect mouth hygiene when you brush your teeth twice every day you will have perfect joint and muscular health when you practice yoga in the morning and in the evening eventually. It's not strange at all out of 24 hours if you would dedicate one fiftieth more or less of that to doing yoga, one fiftieth of your life to just practice something that feels really good in your body that's half an hour every day.

So before you know it you are going to be bitten by the yoga zombie virus and there is no going back. That's my goal. So this was 10 days. Now it's time to start on the start up week or the yoga for rocks whatever you feel is most appropriate for your body.

So get started on your next program right away and let's do this together and have an awesome time on the mats. Welcome to the site guys I'm really happy you are here. See you in the future videos. Osss