Guess How Much I Love You Sequence (Podcast noted 8/15/2021)
Child
From tabletop, sit on your heels and take your knees apart. Walk your hands forward till your chest is near the floor and you resemble a child in a mother’s womb.
Rabbit
Sit in Hero pose and grab your heels. Bring the crown of your head to the floor. As you rest in this pose imagine yourself just as round and fluffy as the back of a rabbit.
Star
Start in Mountain pose and jump your feet wide so your feet are as wide as your hands.
Warrior 2
From Mountain pose jump your feet wide and bend your right knee. Now extend your arms to the side and look past your right fingertips like a warrior calm and steady ready to fight for justice.
Mountain
Stand straight and tall. Lift the bone in the center of your chest up like the peak of a mountain and raise your heart to shine over it like the sun peaking over the mountain. Move your arms up to the sky to show the peaks of the mountain.
Tree
From mountain pose, lift your right foot to the inside of your left thigh. Lift both arms straight to the sky like branches of a tree.
Handstand/ upside down tree
From Mountain pose bend forward and place your hands a few inches away from a wall, or adult. Then kick your feet up to the wall and begin to balance. Extend through the body like a tree stretching to the sky.
Downward dog w/ kick
Sit on your heels, and lean forward onto your hands and knees. Straighten your legs, and let your head hang. Like a dog waking up from a long nap, stretch up towards your bottom and back towards your feet.
Frog
Lay on your belly and bend your knees towards your buttocks. Reach your arm back and grab your feet one at a time from the inside of your foot so the fingers face the towards the pinky toe on the top of the foot then rotate your hand so your fingers your ankle. Lift your head off the floor be a frog laying around a pond.
Jump through
Begin in downward dog, bend your legs and bring all your weight onto your arms. Now swing your legs like a pendulum underneath your body and sit on the floor. You may want bricks under your palms.
Eagle
From mountain pose, bend slightly your arms and legs. Wrap your right leg around your left leg. Then wrap your left arm around your right arm, keep the hands straight. You look like an eagle circling a tree, look outwards to the sky like an eagle.
Horse
Sit in staff pose and bring one leg into half padmasana. Shift your weight onto your padmasana knee and your other bent leg with the sole of your foot close to your knee. Bring your arms in front of you and intertwined them as in Eagle pose. Come down controlled. Your hands are the ears and your long body is the long face of the horse.
1/2 moon
From standing jump your feet wide and bend at the waist sideways, brining one arm to the floor. As the arm comes to the floor let the opposite foot start to float up like the moon. Feel a little curve in your body from your head to your foot just like a curve in a half-moon.
Rest
Lay down on your back. Rest for 2 minutes. You can count to 100 or skip count by 2’s, or even multiply in your head as high as you can. Then turn to your right side and sit up