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HW 30DYC – Day 9: Fire Flow
The fire breath works on the 3rd chakra so promotes willpower and your energy, which is why it is called fire breath. The constant pressure pulses that you build up in your abdominal region and lungs through this breathing technique allows you to flush out all the toxins at an accelerated rate and get to deeper into your lungs and the alveoli. The pulsating contractions of the abdominal muscles provide a kind of intestinal massage, which again is good for the elimination of toxins through your intestinal system.
It is sometimes said that under pressure everything liquefies. Sometimes this is good, sometimes not, but in this case it is GOOD :-). Beautiful things can happen under pressure, like coal becoming diamond.
By doing the different postures during this series of exercises, you ensure that you also use gravity to clean your lungs even further. This is called postural drainage. By doing this, you make sure that different parts of the lungs are ventilated more easily and others are just squeezed more tightly. It is a good exercise to do when you are starting to get a cold to cure it faster. So ideal during autumn 🙂The posture I want to describe here is the switch between balancing table leg and arm extended to balancing table leg and arm crunch. The combination of a few repetitions of these postures with the fire breath is extra powerful because by coming in with arm and leg you get a deeper expiration and you give your intestines an extra massage.
Stand in quadrupedal position.
Hands firmly anchored at shoulder width, under to the shoulders, Arms extended. Elbow turned backwards adding extra tension to your triceps and subscapularis muscle. Knees at pelvic width under the hips. Feet are flat on the floor, or with the toes curled under at the moment you need more stability. Gaze is directed downward. The crown of your heat is pointed forward, stretching your neck slightly. Pelvis is neutral, abdominal muscles tightened. Make sure you are standing firmly before you lift your arm and leg. So hands are firm, shoulders are firm (upper back is not sagging and also not convex), abdomen is tense, back muscles are active so that the lower back maintains a normal curve.Now lift the right hand from the ground and extend the arm forward. Bring the right arm is parallel to the floor. Stand firm, tighten your glutes and stretch your left leg back until it is parallel to the floor. Try to extend the left knee all the way. Keep your pelvis neutral, it will tend to tilt forward. If this happens: tighten your abdominal muscles or lower your leg / arm. Make sure you are stable and parallel to the floor.
Next, forcefully blow out hard through the nose (fire breath) while bringing your elbow and knee under your belly, they touch at the level of the 3th chakra just below the breast, or at least that is what you are trying to achieve. While doing this, your back is allowed to become convex. At the moment that you stretch your right arm and left leg again towards the starting position, you breathe in. Stay firmly in your support arm (left) and support leg (right). It is not the intention that you ‘hang’ in the shoulder or hip joint.
Repeat 10 times. And then switch sides.Always make sure that you build up this posture slowly, this way your basic posture is stable, and you can explore first how far your body can go. Is it still too difficult with arm and leg at the same time? Then do them separately. Always combine with breathing, bringing arm or leg under you = exhale. Extend arm or leg again = breathe in.
To make it a little easier to balance, you can bring your arm and leg a little to the outside instead of forward. (Watch out for the person practicing next to you 😉
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Thank you Sukhi! The information on the photos are good and quick reminders to myself aswel. For me it’s easier to watch a picture and see the details then to read a whole text 🙂
Have a lovely day!
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