Friday Mini Practice

It’s Friday. It’s a reason to feel joy. Even when I was jobless and school-less, hanging around the house in my pajamas, Friday held some sort of excitement. There is this magic about the end of the week, as if the potential (promise?) of something great happening on Saturday or Sunday is the best part of the weekend. Let’s use the Friday energy for a heat-building burst:

Start in Downward Facing Dog - 5 breaths

Step forward with your right foot to a low lunge – 3 breaths

Step forward with your left foot to meet the right in uttanasana – 3 breaths

Step back with your right foot to a low lunge – 3 breaths

Sun Salutation A x 3

5 Swinging Dogs with right leg forward

From Down Dog, step right foot forward to Warrior 2 – 2 breaths

Vashistasana on the left hand, left foot – 2 breaths

Vinyasa (Plank, Caturanga, Cobra, Downward Facing Dog)

5 Swinging Dogs with left leg forward

From Down Dog, step left foot forward to Warrior 2 -2 breaths

Vashistasana on the right hand, right foot – 2 breaths

Vinyasa

Step forward with the right foot to Parsvakonasana – 3 breaths

Straighten right leg to Trikonasana – 3 breaths

Step forward to Ardha Chandrasana – 3 breaths

Uttanasana

Vinyasa

Repeat on left side

Handstand against the wall (or in the middle of the room!)

Try to hold for at least 3 breaths, repeat as many times as you like!

Child’s Pose for 10 breaths

Namaste