Sebastian Brosche · 64 min · 5,990 words
The Rocket 2 sequence, a fast, dynamic vinyasa to build strength, stamina and mobility for grappling. Bring energy.
Hey everyone and welcome to the Rocket 2 yoga sequence. So we'll get straight into it. So if you all just want to meet me stood at the top of your mat. Okay, we're gonna take a deep breath in.
Hands all the way up. Take an exhale and fold. Take a half lift. Exhale, step back to plank.
Lower yourself down. And then Cobra or Up Dog. And then back to Down Dog. And take three breaths in Down Dog.
Lifting the hips. And breathing. Back to the top of your mat. Take a fold.
And then all the way back up. Hands to the top. And hands back to prayer. Let's give your hands back up.
Hands down and fold. Or half lift. And back to plank again. Lower yourselves down.
Back up. Cobra or Up Dog. And then back to Down Dog. Three breaths.
Exhale. Back to the top of your mats. Standing all the way up. And we'll do one more.
So hands are going up. And down fold. Take a half lift. Exhale, back to plank.
And lower yourselves down. Again Cobra or Up Dog. Back to Down Dog. Three breaths here.
Let's get back into the top of the mat. Stand yourself all the way up. And now hands up and we'll sit back into chair. Take an exhale, fold.
Half lift. Stepping back. Lower yourselves down. Let's go Up Dog.
And then back into Dog. Stepping your right foot forwards. Turn the back heel. Let's come up into Warrior One.
Hands nice and high, nice and strong on that back leg. Let's come back down. Stepping back. Lower down.
Cobra Up Dog. Back into Down Dog. And now let's go left side forwards. Warrior One.
Hands up. Nice and high. Back down. Lower yourselves down.
Let's go up. Back into Down Dog. Let's take three breaths in Down Dog. Back to the top of your mat.
You can step or jump and then we'll come back into chair pose. And stand yourselves up. Really good. Taking a breath here.
And let's go hands back up into chair. And then back down. And then back down. And then back down.
And then back down. And then back down. And then back down. And then back down.
And then down into fold. Half lift. And you can step or jump back to dog. Sorry, back to plank.
Lower yourselves down. Let's go back up. Back to dog. Now step the left foot forwards.
Let's come back up into Warrior One. Breathing into pose. Let's go down. Vinyasa.
Back into dog. Let's go right side. So forwards into Warrior One. Hands coming up.
Nice and strong. And back down. Vinyasa. And back into Down Dog for the three breaths.
Back to the top of your mat. So jump or step. And then we'll come back into chair. Hands coming up.
And stand yourselves up. Take a breath here. Now let's go hands up, sitting back into chair. Take a breath here.
And then back down. And then back down. And then back down. And then back down.
And then back down. Fold. Half lift. Step or jump.
Overall Up Dog. And then back. Right foot forwards into Warrior One. Back foot nice and straight.
Sorry, nice and strong. And down. Vinyasa. Last side, stepping forwards.
Let's go up. And down. Back to Up Dog. Stepping into Down Dog.
Let's take three breaths in Down Dog. Lifting the hips. And then either step or jump to the top of your mat. Or sitting chair.
And then all the way up. Okay, back into chair pose. Sitting back here. Interlace your fingers.
Drive those fingers above your head. And then we'll come forwards. Taking three breaths here. Driving the hands away.
Opening the shoulders. And then we'll come down. Hands come down into Crow. Lifting the heels up nice and high.
Take a breath. Then step back. Lower to Plank. Let's go Up Dog.
And into Down Dog. Okay, from Down Dog. Come down to your knees. Drop your elbows down to the mat.
And come to kind of prayer hands. Then think of Down Dog again. So we're going to lift our hips up into Dolphin Pose. And take three breaths here.
Really opening out. Lifting the hips up nice and high. Opening the shoulders. And then push yourself back up into Down Dog.
Step that right foot forwards now. Back into Warrior One. Feeling that Warrior One position. Up nice and high.
Then we'll interlace our fingers behind our backs. Stretching the hands away. And we'll take a fold forward into Humble Warrior. Breathing here.
Let's come out of that. Then open the hands out into Warrior Two. Now we'll reverse that Warrior. So hand up, reversing.
Coming back. Opening out. Now that hand's going to come down to the mat. Sorry, on the outside.
And then we'll think about straightening that front leg. And lifting that top hand up and pointing it up. Good. Send that left hip back now.
Opening to the left. Driving the hands up here. Taking a breath. Good.
And from here, bring yourselves all the way up. And then bring your hands behind you into Warrior One. And then bring your hands behind you into a nice prayer position. Just behind the lower back.
And then just start to fold yourself forwards here. Till you find a good stretch. And we'll take three breaths here. And slowly bring yourself up.
Okay, let's bend that front knee. Come back to Warrior Two. Now that left hand is coming down. And we're opening to the right.
Opening to the right hand side so my chest is opening out. And I'm just breathing here. And then we'll come back to Warrior Two. And then we'll come back to Warrior Two.
Opening out and I'm just breathing here. Good. Let's straighten that right hand in line with the left leg. Now let's come back up into Warrior Two.
And then we'll go to prayer hands. I want you to turn to the right hand side. So your left elbow is over your right knee. And we're twisting out to the right here for three breaths.
Good. Then we'll slowly come out of that, down to the mat. And vinyasa. Back into down dog.
Taking a breath in down dog. And then we'll come down to our forearms. Prayer hands on our forearms. And if forward fold is in your balance, now is the time to just slowly start lifting the hips.
Bringing yourself up into a forearm balance. Make sure you kick up with both feet. Lifting everything up. And back down into that dolphin pose.
Opening out here. Lifting the hips. Okay, push yourself back up into down dog. Then we'll bring that left foot forwards.
And we'll come up into Warrior One. Taking a breath. Interlace your fingers behind. And then fold into that humble warrior for three.
Then we'll come up out of that. So hands up. Then open into Warrior Two now. And think about reversing that warrior again.
So side stretch here, opening out. Nice and strong on that back leg. Good. Then we'll come back down with the left hand outside.
Straighten the right leg into triangle for three breaths. Keep sending that right hip back and opening out. Good. Bring yourself back up.
Bring those hands into prayer behind you. And then hinging at the hips first. Just folding forwards here. Now we'll come back up.
Okay, bend that front leg. Open the hands up to Warrior Two. We'll bring the right hand down now. Then the left hand comes up.
Try and straighten that front leg. Opening out to the left. And then we'll bend. Get that left hand in line with the right.
Sorry, with the right leg. And slowly bring yourself back up into Warrior Two. Then we'll come forwards, prayer hands. And think about turning to your left, right elbow on your left knee.
And just opening out here to the left. Three breaths. Now slowly come out of that. Back into Warrior Two.
And then we'll come back down into a vinyasa. Let's go cobra or up dog. And then into that down dog. Take a breath.
And then we'll come back down into a vinyasa. And then we'll come back down into a vinyasa. And then we'll come back down into a vinyasa. Take a breath.
And then we'll come down to the forearms. Bringing them together. And here's where we'll go dolphin pose or forearm balance, if that's in your practice. Lifting up with that top foot.
And switching feet. Or staying where you are. Lifting up. And back down.
Bring yourself into down dog. Take three breaths here. And then from here, nice and slow, just start to walk your hands back towards your feet. Into a nice forward fold here.
And lift your feet up. Put your palms under your feet. And just relax into this forward fold, letting the head hang. Finding a nice fold here.
And see how you feel. Okay, come off your feet. And now just lift yourself up. And we'll just lift to the tiptoes of our feet.
And just walk yourself to the top of your mat. And then once you're there, we need to turn yourself into a standing straddle. So we're not going super wide. Into a standing straddle.
So we're not going super wide. Just wide enough so that you're in your mat. Into a standing straddle. We're not going super wide, just wide enough for you right now.
And no wider than the length of your mat. If straddle handstand is in your practice, just leaning forwards into that. So shoulders over wrists, hips over shoulders. And then lifting your feet into a straddle handstand.
For three, two, one, and down. Good. And now lowering down into a straddle headstand. Again, if it's in your practice.
If not, just enjoy standing straddle. And slowly out of that. Coming down. Resting for five.
If you have to heel toe your feet back in, like I do, a little bit. Just based on your proportions and how you get in and out of the pose. Go for that. And then hands on hips.
Stand yourselves up into that standing straddle now. Then we'll interlace our fingers behind our backs. And then into another fold. Just letting the head hang.
Hands maybe above your head. Shrugging back. Just opening out and folding here. Good.
Let go. Imagine just doing a half lift here. And fold. And now come up.
And just take your peace fingers around your big toes. And then again, folding here. Hinging at the hips and then letting everything hang down. No tension in the neck.
For three breaths. And then coming out of that. So go for that half lift again. And then just start to heel toe all the way out into whatever a split looks like for you here.
Just slowly opening out. And now keep the outsides of your feet on the mat and keep lowering down if you can. Good. Now ease out of that slightly.
And then over to your left into Hanumanasana or whatever variation or distance you are away from the full pose. Breathing here. If you struggle getting into it, you can come back into this pose and just work towards getting there. Or just see what your body allows today.
That's fine. And then if you can, lift your hands up when you're here. Lift your hands up and just enjoy that pose wherever you are. For three breaths.
And then if you can fold into the pose more. Just folding forwards. And bring yourself up. Good.
Back into the middle. Then over to the other side. And again, second side now, wherever you can get to. If you want to start off here, slowly working into it.
That's fine too. I'm still on my way there as well. No rush. Your body let you get there whenever you're ready.
Thinking about nice and tall in the pose. And then again, if you want to, bring your hands up in the pose wherever you are. And sink your hips down into it. For three.
And then we'll fold forwards for three. And slowly coming up. Back into the middle. And then sit yourself down into a seated straddle position.
With your legs out. And if this is tough, you can bend your knees a little bit as well. And what we're going to do is we're going to fold over towards the left knee. Thinking about hinging at the hips.
Hinging towards that knee. Getting a nice stretch. And come up and then over to the right. Folding, down keeping.
My left hips or hip on the ground as I fold. And then come up and we'll stretch forward into the middle. Turning my hips out behind me first. Almost like I'm trying to drop my navel to the mat.
And then I'm hinging at the hips. Coming into this nice fold here. Okay, bring yourselves up. Bring your right hand on the inside, left hand on the outside.
Think about lifting your hips here. Okay, lifting up. If you can lift your feet as well, that's even better. So try that.
Lift the feet. Hold for two. Wobble around. Lower down.
Now we'll go for the other side. So lifting up. Lifting everything in the middle. For two.
And back down. And now switch to the other side. We'll work into flying split pose. So lift everything up.
Tuck it around so my left foot's going under. My right foot's over my tricep. I'm stretching out. Breathing here.
Then slowly come out of that. Kicking through. Back into straddle. Take a breath here.
And then lifting up. Lift the feet. Kick it around. And under.
Into flying split. And from there, see if you can step back. Into a low push up. And we'll go up dog.
And into down dog. Good. Front dog. Let's jump.
Or step. Kicking through. Into a low boat. Or high boat, sorry.
You can either extend the legs straight. Or keep the shins and forearms parallel. And we'll go over to the right. Up and over to the left.
Up and over to the right. And left. And right. Left again.
And one more time to the right. And then from here, back into the middle. Bring yourself forwards. Into a squat.
And now knees together. Squatting down. Bring your right elbow around your left knee. And then we'll lean over to the left hand side.
If you can, bind here. Bring your right hand around and under towards your right hip. And reach your left hand back and bind. Think about opening everything out to the left.
And then coming out of that. Opening over to the left. And come down again. Let's go around to the right hand side.
So again, left elbow outside the right knee. Left hand scoops under. Up towards the left hip. Right hand back until you can bind.
If you can balance here. Opening out to your right hand side. And then unbind here. Right hand back.
Opening out to the right. Come back down to a squat. And again from here, if handstand is in your practice, jump up to a handstand and then lower yourself down. And we'll just do a quick vinyasa here.
Okay, so jumping yourself up. And then back. Lower yourself down. Into up dog.
Back into down dog. And then step or jump yourself back to the top of the mat. And we'll go into side crow on the left and the right side. So I'm starting the right side.
So my left knee is outside my right elbow. Lean yourself forward. Keep the knees bent. Straighten.
Or if you want a bit extra, you can kick the legs out. Keep nice and straight. Come out of that. Come down.
Good, over to the left. So bring yourself forward. Keep the knees bent if that's easier. Or straighten the legs.
Or if you want extra, split. And back. Out of the pose. And then stepping back.
Lower yourself down into a vinyasa. And into down dog. Okay, from down dog. Again, jump and kick through.
So that you're sitting down on the mat. Okay, if this half hero variation is in your practice, feel free to continue with that. So if you can sit out comfortably with both your hips on the floor and one foot out to the side, you can bring the meat of the leg out a bit. You can sit here and we'll go with this fold.
Okay, if not, I'm going to bring my knee on the outside here and work this way. So from here, we're either going to reach towards the leg and just nice and strong. Stay here in a bit of a fold. Or if you want a little more, we're going to lift this up with our knee bent.
Or if you want a bit more, you can start to straighten that right leg so that it's in the air. Staying here nice and strong. Or again, if you want a bit more, keep that floating in the air. Staying up nice and straight.
Keep your back nice and straight so I'm not rounding out here. Up. Take two more breaths. Good.
Let's come down and out of that. And then bring yourself up. We'll come forward into one-legged crow. So lifting the hips, bending the knees.
I want one knee. So we'll start with the right knee in that little shelf above your right elbow. Straighten the left leg back into the air. Hold and then step back into a vinyasa.
Into down dog. And then keep yourselves through again into that position. So same thing again here. If that right foot is okay out to the side and you can sit on both hips comfortably, go for that.
I like this variation for now and that's fine. And again, we're folding forwards towards that leg. Or if you want a little more, bring your knee into your chest and hold. Or again, a bit more, we can straighten.
Or even more, hold that foot up in the air for three. Good. Let's slowly come out of that. And then we'll come forward again into one-legged crow.
I'm going to go left side this time. So lifting up, left knee in that shelf just above the left elbow. I'm going to come forward with that. Keep the balance.
Keep my heel up towards my hips. Right leg straight. And then back into a vinyasa. Just breathing in down dog.
And from dog, bring your front down to the mat. Hands go back by your sides. Lift the feet. Lift the chest into locust.
Take two breaths. And then lower yourself down. Hands are coming back. Elbows point up.
Lift the feet. Lift the chest. Lift. And lower yourselves down.
Lift yourselves up into up dog. Back into down dog. And then from down dog, coming forwards onto the knees. And if you're more comfortable here with your feet out to the sides and sitting your hips down onto the mat, feel free.
I'm going to stay on my hips here. Lift your right hand up. Bend at the elbow into the centre of the back. Left hand is going back.
And just grip your hands behind your back here. Opening out. And now switch sides. Three breaths here.
And release. Hands back into a stretch on the front. Keep bringing your hands back. Just looking after the knees.
If you want to come down to your elbows, feel free to come down to your elbows. If you can lay yourself all the way back here comfortably, then feel free. Take three breaths here. Again, looking after your body.
I know practice can be hard. Just don't push or let that inner ego that tells us to try harder, push harder, even when we're already doing it. Don't let that speak up and just work within whatever works for you today. Good.
Slowly come up out of the pose, however you came into it. From here, lift yourself up and we'll go back into a vinyasa. So come up, lower down. Up dog.
And back into down dog. And then from down dog, we'll just step forwards and kick through into boat. Into that boat. And then rocking forwards.
Lift. And back. Forward to lift. And back.
One more forward to lift. And back. And this time we'll hold. So lift for three breaths.
And back. And bring yourself up and forwards into a fold. Lifting the hips to the ceiling, hinging at the hips. Letting the head hang.
And then hands down in the mat. Lift the right foot up into standing split. If handstands are in your practice at this point, feel free to start kicking that right foot up into a handstand or an L-shaped handstand. And then come down.
Switch sides on that standing split. Lifting all the way up into a handstand if you can. If not, just keep lifting that left foot. And then from that, bring yourself down into a vinyasa.
Lifting up. Back into down dog. And then we'll come forward to plank again. Lower your front down to the mat.
And replace your elbows with where your hands were when you came down. Take a breath here. And then your right hand replaces where your left elbow was. The left foot is coming back.
Reach around that left foot. Opening out here and start to bring that left foot down towards your hips. Now keep opening out and stretching back. Whatever variation works for you here.
And we'll slowly let go of that foot. We'll come back into Sphinx. And we'll go with the other side. So left hand to the right elbow.
Right heel comes up and I'm reaching back and grabbing that right heel. And you're pulling that in. As you pull that in, that turns around on the top of your foot. And just brings your foot in towards your hips.
Breathe in here. Good. Let go of the foot. Let that come down.
And we'll go back into Sphinx. Take in a breath. And then from here, lift yourself up into Up Dog. Back into Down Dog.
Lifting the hips as you come out of that. And then we'll come forwards again into Plank. Lower the front down. And then lifting both heels.
Reaching the hands back. And then lifting up into a nice Bow Pose here. Take a few breaths. Good.
Letting go of the feet. Feet are coming down. And now all the way into Up Dog here. And if it's in your practice, start to bring your head back.
Bring your feet up and back towards your head. Or we'll just stay in Up Dog. And then if it's in your practice, then your head is back on the way down. Come down.
On the way up, lift the head back. Heels up. And then down. And up.
And down. Last one up. And down. Good.
And then we'll come back into Down Dog. Just breathe in here. And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees. Flatten your feet out.
Lift up so your hips are above your knees. We'll go hands around the back. Elbows behind us. Nice back bend here.
Opening up the front. Or you can bring your hands back down to your heels. Open up the front. Open up the chest.
Breathing here. And slowly coming out of that. Down into Hero. Focusing on your breath.
Maybe hand on the navel, hand on the chest. Take five to ten breaths here. And then we'll come back into Down Dog. And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees.
Elbows behind us. And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees. And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees. And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees.
And then from Down Dog, come down onto your knees. And now from here, come forwards. We'll float ourselves back. Lower down.
Vinyasa. Back into Down Dog. And then slowly coming back down into that Hero pose. And from here, if it's in your practice, you can start to work yourselves back with your hands over your head, lifting yourselves up.
Or if you're not quite there yet, like me, I'm going to come back into that Camel Pose one more time. So hips forwards, shrugging shoulders back, opening the chest, breathing here. Good. Slowly come out of that.
How you came into it. Breathing here. We'll go with the Vinyasa. If you can jump yourself up into a Handstand into that Vinyasa, feel free.
Up, low plank, lift yourselves up and back. From here, jump and kick yourselves through into Boat Pose. And from Boat Pose, try and grab piece of fingers around the big toes and lift the feet up, nice and straight back here. Breathing and then roll yourself onto your back with your feet above your hips and then lower your feet to a 45 degree angle and lift and lower and lift and lower and lift.
Lower again, then lift. Lower one more time, we'll hold for five seconds. Four, three, two, one, lift and then bring yourselves all the way up to a squat. If you can rock forwards, that's fine.
Then lift up into a fold. Take a breath in fold. And then from here, if you can jump yourself up into a Pike Handstand, here is where you'll do that. Or just kick up the right foot and work on three jump ups into an L-shaped handstand.
So jumping up one, jumping up two and three and then switch feet. So standing split, we'll go up one and two and three. After the last one, jump back, lower yourselves down, Vinyasa and back. Into Down Dog.
And then jump, kick through, sitting down into Butterfly. Just take a breath, sat up nice and straight in Butterfly. And lay yourselves back and we'll take ten breaths. One hand on the navel, one hand on the chest and we'll just take ten breaths here.
And I want you to think whilst you're here, it's okay to challenge yourself. It's okay to try hard classes. It's also okay to fail sometimes. It's also okay to try something that you might not think you're very good at yet.
But the more and more you try things and work towards things, the more and more you're going to succeed and pass. Very, very few people ever succeeded in life without failing sometimes or making mistakes. And that is what your yoga practice should be. It's practice, it's not yoga perfect.
Okay, so think about it as practice. Enjoy it and embrace it just the way you are today. And you'll be okay. Okay, from here lift your knees.
Keep them bent though. And we'll lift our hips off the mat. So first of all, lifting the hips and everything else that's coming up off the mat. And then under your hips, interlace your fingers, maybe tuck your shoulders and drive your hands in that space between your legs.
Lifting up here for three breaths. Lifting the hips. Let's lower the hips now. Okay, maybe heels in a little closer to hips.
Lift the hips again. Up nice and high, interlace the fingers. Tuck the shoulders back. Opening out here.
And then lower yourselves down. If wheel is in your practice, go for wheel. Or if you want to keep to bridge, keep to that bridge. Just look after yourselves.
Okay, so if wheel is in your practice, we'll come up and we'll spend three breaths. So lifting up. Breathing here. And slowly down.
Take a breath. Take another breath. And now if wheel with the right leg lifted is in your practice, then feel free. So we're going up into wheel.
We're pointing that right leg up and we're still lifting our hips up, keeping them nice and square. Then go for that. Or if you want to come into bridge, lifting the hips. Tucking the shoulders, interlacing your fingers and trying it from there.
So I'm lifting my right foot up. Lift, lift, lift for three breaths. Good. Bring that right leg down.
Now we'll go lower the hips. Take a breath. Lift the hips again. So back into wheel if that works for you.
So lifting up, interlacing fingers. Tuck the shoulders. Lift the left foot. Try and keep the hips square if they drop or turn.
Lift up. Lift, lift, lift. Good. Bend that.
Bring that down. Lower the hips. And take a breath here. And then bring yourselves up into a squat.
And then standing forward fold for ten breaths. That was nice after some back bends. And if you can kick yourself up into a handstand and then scorpion handstand, that is where you would put this in the sequence. So if you can efficiently bring yourself up to a handstand and then start to bring your heels down towards your head, lift your head up, then that's where you can do that.
Or you can just enjoy a forward fold here with me for ten breaths. And if you've been playing around in scorpion, come down and just bend a few breaths in a forward fold with the rest of us. Inhaling through the nose. Exhaling even slower through the nose.
Getting that breath back every time you lose it. And now let's step back into a vinyasa. Take a breath here. And then bring yourselves forward.
So kick through. Lower down. And then from here, just sitting cross-legged. And we'll bring the left ankle over the right hip.
And I'm going to reach my left hand back. And I'm opening out to the side. Just breathing here. Okay, now I'm letting go of that.
My right foot is coming around my left knee. I'm going to hug and open out to the right. If you want more here, you can bring the left elbow up and around. And either left hand up or left hand in line with the left shin.
Sorry, right shin and opening out. Whatever works for you here. Okay, let's come down and around. Now my right foot is coming into my left hip.
My right hand comes around and opening out to the side. Breathing here. Now ease out of that. Now the left foot goes outside the right knee.
And I'm going to grab around that left knee. Or bring the right hand up and around and open out here. Or you can bring your right hand down to the floor and open out. Just breathe into whatever variation works for you here.
And slowly coming out of that now into a vinyasa. So either jump or step back. Lower yourself down, up dog and then into a down dog. And then from down dog into three legged dog.
So kicking the right foot up nice and high. Then bringing that forward. Right knee under the right wrist. And then coming back into pigeon.
Breathing in pigeon. Come down to your elbows. If you're comfortable here you can curl that left foot back. Reach back and grab that.
Kick in that left foot back or bring that down towards the hips. Or another variation here from pigeon. You can just reach your hands forward. Nice and flat on the mat and breathe.
Bit more rest. Now slowly come back to the elbows. Bring the hands up. Step back.
Lower down. Lifting into up dog and then down dog. Then we'll go second side. So lifting the left foot up.
Lift, lift, lift. Knee comes forward and down. Going back into pigeon on the other side. Down to your elbows if you're comfortable.
If you want to reach back and grab the back foot, bringing it towards the hips. Feel free, breathing here. Hands up. Hands stretch forward and rest on the mat.
Slowly come out of that. However you came into it. Into a low press up. Bring yourselves up.
Back into down dog. Breathing here. Then from here come forward and down to cross legged. We'll just open out right knee on top of the left knee.
Breathing here. Then imagine some cat cows here. Lifting up and fold. Back into cow.
Into cat. Back up. And fold. And then if headstand is in your practice, use the headstand to switch the crossing of the feet.
Coming forwards. Making that nice frame ready for your headstand. Lifting yourself up. Opening the legs out.
Bringing them back around nice and safely. Slowly lower yourself down. Then we'll sit back into cat cows again. So up and fold.
Back up. And fold. Back up again. And fold.
Sitting up nice and straight here. Bring yourselves up. Step back. And vinyasa.
And back. And then kicking through again into lotus this time. So choose a side first. Crossing the hands behind you.
Grabbing the elbows and fold. And back up. And we'll take one more fold. Come back up.
Now bring the hands, palms facing up, onto your knees. Sitting up nice and straight. We'll take ten breaths here. And then from here, hands by your hips.
Lift yourselves up. And lower yourselves down. And then we'll do some breath work. Lifting ourselves up.
So we'll take an exhale. Nice and quick exhales on the lift. So take a breath in. Take an exhale out.
Lift yourselves up. Let's go. And lower down. Breathing where you are.
Coming back to a normal breath. And now bring yourselves forward into a front stretch. I'm just going to scoot back. So bring yourselves forward into a front stretch.
Feel that stretch out the front of your hips. And then back. And just do that a couple of times. Lifting the head.
Sitting back. Lifting the head. Sitting back. Good.
As we sit back, we'll take an inhale. As we come forwards, breathing out the tongue. Comes out the mouth. Out the mouth.
Sitting back. And forwards. And back. And forwards.
And back again. Sitting down all the way. Uncrossing the feet. Laying yourself onto your backs.
Legs nice and straight out. Hands either by your sides palm facing up. Or one hand on the navel. One hand on the chest.
Untuck your chin. Melt into the mat. Notice what's going on around you. What can you hear in the left ear?
What can you hear in the right ear? What can you feel? Can you feel your yoga mat? Maybe what's outside the yoga mat?
And then just shut it away and come back to your breath. Switch off into Shavasana. Shavasana. Okay, bring your attention back into the room where you are and what you're doing.
Turn yourself onto your left side. And super slowly bring yourselves up to a seated position. And that is it for Rocket 2. I really hope you enjoyed the class.
There's plenty to work with there. There's plenty of things that I can't do myself yet, but I'm working towards. It's good fun. Builds a lot of heat.
It's a bit of a challenge and well done for making it all the way through. Okay, keep doing it. Keep practicing. Get those headstands down.
As you can see, I'm working with a very low ceiling here today and I'm quite tall. So I don't want to put any more holes in the ceiling. Thank you for practicing and I'll see you in the next video.
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