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Start your practice by finding Child’s Pose, coming onto your hands and knees, and placing your knees out as wide as your yoga mat. Press your hips back and down as put your weight back into your toes. Extend your arms in front of body, release your head down to the floor and close your eyes. Stay here for 3-5 minutes.
Child’s Pose with Shoulder Opener
From Child’s Pose place your right arm under your body and turn your head to the left releasing your right cheek down on the floor. Stay here for 2 minutes, and then move slowly to the opposite side.
Shoulder Rotation
Coming up to a seated pose, sit on your your knees and begin to rotate your arms in a full wide circle. Make 15 slow circles forward and then 15 slow circles backwards.
Sphinx Pose
Come onto your belly into sphinx pose. Place the forearms in the floor in front of you, legs extended, and hands facing forward. Feel a deep opening in the shoulders as you gently press into the floor. Stay in this pose for 2 minutes.
Seated Shoulder Opener
Come to a cross-legged seated pose and extend both arms up towards the ceiling. Reach over with the right arm and grab the left elbow in the shoulder release. Relax the head and neck by looking towards the floor. Stay here for 2 minutes and then repeat on the opposite side.
Side Lying Shoulder Release
Lying down on your right side, extend the right arm along the floor, above your head. Release your head down towards the arm relaxing the head and neck. Let the left knee drape gently over the body. Close your eyes and stay here for 3 minutes, then move to the opposite side.