Digestive Yoga for Your Holiday

After the large beautiful meal that you enjoyed yesterday and left overs today you may not be feeling your sharpest or most energetic.  Here are some suggestions for getting that digestion back online even when you might have eaten sides that inflame your gut.

Standing with feet shoulder width, arms at your side, feel your feet in the ground and begin to sway with heavy soft arms.  a casual twisting that likens a walk. exhale every time you twist, inhale as you sway to the other side.  15-30 breaths.  Breathing may seem fast, and that is ok!  Work for those thorough exhales.  Energize this twisting sway with breath, not arms.

Then begin to high step one knee to the opposite elbow (maybe seems like an aerobics class at the moment). exhale with every elbow/knee touch.  15-30.

Stand tall, feet close, for Standing Crescent.  Arms over   head, feet and heels firmly planted.  pull one wrist over stretching the side body like a crescent moon.  Opposite side as many times as you like.  Your side body may be quite tight, so DEEP inhales as you arch over.

Next, either take a nice walk outside in the fresh air OR lay down and increase your digestions with Reclined Twists, Legs left first.  Back and forth with 3-4 breaths for each side and then end legs on right side.  This is for your ascending and descending colon.

JOY to your GUT.