@inflexibleyogis

What an incredible, inspiring transformation 😍🙏🏼✨ You can literally start anywhere! To start or advance your yoga practice, and for tips, modifications, and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks! (Link in bio —> @inflexibleyogis) Make sure you share this with someone to inspire them and thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼 @emily_grass_yoga • • • • When I (re) started my yoga journey, I couldn’t even do chaturunga. This is what I’m taking about when I talk about sticking to it. This is what I mean when I say I know what you’re going through. This is what I mean when I say practice makes progress.

Lizard pose helps open hips & hamstrings, prepping for deeper stretches like the splits! Try adding some of these fun lizard pose variations 🙏🏼🙌🏼 For more tips, modifications, and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks! (Link in profile —> @inflexibleyogis) Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice 🙏🏼 Thanks for sharing! @elena_miss_yoga • • • Today’s tutorial is a fun one. Different lizard pose variations. . My favourite hip opener and hamstrings stretch . 1 Lizard lunge 2 Regular lizard 3 Shy lizard, with the arm hidden behind the front leg 4 Crawling Lizard, in my opinion, the coolest of the bunch 5 Twisted Lizard, the spinal and hip rotation have detoxifying property  6 Stretching Lizard, great hip opener 7 Bound Lizard, deep quadriceps stretch 8 Zig Zag Lizard, improve the hip rotation . Benefits of Lizard pose: ▪️Stretches and strengthens the hamstrings, hip flexors, and quadriceps. ▪️Strengthening these muscle groups will help you maintain a full range of motion. ▪️A slow, deep stretch in these muscles can help alleviate pain, release tension, and prevent injury both in your yoga practice and your everyday life.

Need a little restorative yoga in your life? Try some of these wall yoga poses to support deepen your stretches 🙏🏼🙌🏼 For more tips, modifications, and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks (link in profile —> @inflexibleyogis) 🙌🏼 Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼 @bringmeyoga • • • My favorite yoga prop? A wall 🙌🏼🙌🏼 . I find practicing yoga poses against a wall to be an incredibly resorative practice. It’s also an excellent way to deepen into your stretches! . Try these stretches to relax your lower body! And tag a friend who needs it☀️🌻

Who agrees?? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏿‍♂️ No matter where you are in your journey, yoga is for YOU 🙏🏼 Check out our link in bio for resources on where to start or advance your practice! —> @inflexibleyogis

Inversions are amazing for hormone balance, toning the entire body, organ health, and upper body strength! To learn all the building blocks to get here, including strength and flexibility in all the foundational poses of yoga with modifications and progressions, check out the e-books (link in bio —> @inflexibleyogis)! Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼 @heatherheartsyoga • • • Find stability at each stage & make sure you can hold for at least a 5 seconds before even thinking about straightening the legs up ;) (Legs may be bent at stage 2 hamstring flexibility dependant) I’m here for any questions ♡

Working on your forward folds but don’t know where to start? Swipe to start stretching and strengthening your body with these drills 👉🏼👉🏼 For more tips, modifications, and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga check out our ebooks (link in bio —> @howtopracticeyoga) Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice! 🙌🏼 Thanks for sharing @aurorabowkett 🙏🏼 • • • Want to get deeper in your forward fold? Or maybe you just want to touch your toes! SWIPE and SAVE for tips! —————————- Forward folding is a stretch do your WHOLE posterior chain - basically everything on the back side of your body. So if you just thinking about your legs you’re missing half the picture! Swipe for my top ways to help improve your forward fold - by lengthening the whole posterior chain from neck to ankle! A fun fact: A lot of these are not just PASSIVE movements but ACTIVE as we’re using the muscular engagement of the opposing side (your anterior chain - abdominals, hip flexors and chest for example). By contracting your opposing muscles like this you’re: - allowing the lengthened muscles to release and open more effectively, as the body feels safe going into the range of motion. - You minimise INJURY as you’re only going into a range which your body can actively move into - you gain FULL control over your range of motion! So it’s useful in life and not just a party trick!

Check out this amazing progress and inspiration! 😍✨✨ Anything is possible with every body. And whether you are looking to start or progress your current practice, you can find all of the tips, modifications, and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our e-books! (link in bio —> @inflexibleyogis) Make sure you share this with someone to inspire them! Thanks for sharing @getfityogagirl • • • Don’t let the thought of how far you have to go stop you from starting today. The time will pass whether we want it to or not- why let it go and regret not beginning when you said you would years later when you’re looking back? It will be so worth it. - I get a lot of questions about how I've opened up my practice being a home practice based yogi now (simply due to my hectic work schedule of starting 8am some days and working to 8pm others that classes never line up for me) and the answer is always the same- consistency and time! Whether I have 10 minutes or 2 hours to practice, getting on my mat daily keeps me fairly open and keeps majority of the strength there. But definitely go to a studio if you can, especially when beginning to be sure your alignment is correct and to help avoid injuries🙏🏼. Teachers are incredible to help you learn and grow- I know mine did! My practice is mainly vinyasa flow based and never looks the same every day. Friday’s I do yin yoga and try to do arm balances or inversions a few days a week now that they’re in my practice. And with time, I found myself opening up and gaining strength I never thought imaginable! You can find the progress you want

Did you know your back pain could be coming from tight hips? Some poses to help with lower back pain 👇🏼👇🏼 For more tips, hip stretches, modifications to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks (link in bio✨) Make sure you share this with a friend and save it for your personal practice! Thanks for sharing @miss_sunitha For more guides, link in profile —> @inflexibleyogis • • • Let me just start with a big disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and if you experience sharp pains, you should consult a doctor. Secondly, when I refer to pain here, I don’t mean sharp pain. Pain in this context refers to discomfort, like the discomfort you may feel in your lower back from sitting too long or walking too much (possibly with not the most supportive foot ware), for example. . Most lower back discomfort is caused by some sort of compression in the lower spine, whether it’s structural or through habits accumulated over time. I’ve always had lower back discomfort, mainly due to my non symmetrical bone structure which easily creates compression in my lower back. If you tend to feel lower back compression, these are some of my go-to yoga stretches that I find to be very helpful which you could try. . The areas I like to focus on is really in 2 parts: . 1️⃣ Creating length in the spine - With every inhalation (especially poses 1, 5, 7 & 9) think of lengthening by envisioning space between each vertebrae. Specifically for cobra pose (pose 9), focusing on the back instead of the front body can sometimes cause further compression. So try pressing the elbows to the ground to further push the shoulders down and lift the chest. If it’s too intense, bring the elbows further forward. Think of lengthening the front body by pressing the hips down and pushing the chest up. Relax the glutes. . 2️⃣ Extension in the side body (poses 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10) - Initiate the side stretch only on an exhalation. With every inhalation, think of extending the side body (from the hips all the way to the fingertips), but make sure not to compress one side when stretching another. Try to see create extension without compromising the other.

How to Pancake by @miz.liz 👇🏼👇🏼 Check out this sequence to warm up your hips, hamstrings, and low back for straddle pancakes 🥞 And for more tips, modifications and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, grab our ebooks (all on sale - link in bio✨) Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice 🙏🏼♥️ Thanks for sharing! @miz.liz For yoga, core, handstand eBooks: link in profile → @inflexibleyogis • • • ✨How to Pancake✨ . . . . . Straddle pancakes require open hips/hamstrings/hip flexors along with compression (belly to ground), flexibility with strength, and this is my warm up routine for pancakes! 🥞 . . 1. Hip circles - both directions while standing 2. Goddess pose - stretch inner thighs by bringing hands on thighs and dropping one shoulder at a time 3. Forward fold to yogi squat - x10 feet more than hips widths distance apart 4. Yogi squat side stretch - hold for 10-20 breaths on each side, long straight spine 5. Wide legged standing forward fold - hold 30-60 seconds 6. Butterfly pose - hold 30-60 seconds 7. Wide legged straddle - hip circles both directions 8. Wide legged straddle - point & flex feet, protecting knees by engaging quads 9. Side bend each side - x2 deeper on the second time around 10. Straddle pancake - engage legs and quads, belly to ground instead of rounding spine . . . Try this flow out for and let me know how it goes!

Before and after transformation inspiration 😍 What are your current goals? 👇🏼👇🏼 For tips, modifications and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks! (link in bio✨) Make sure you share this with someone to inspire them 🙏🏼♥️ Thanks for sharing! @lipzsparkle For yoga, core, handstand eBooks: link in profile → @inflexibleyogis • • • • The "Before" was in early 2019 when I started yoga.. I thought the split is IMPOSSIBLE!! like how the hell I can do that!?!??!?! It was painful at first and everytime when I know my instructor is going to make me do this pose, I'm terrified!!! Like.. omg my day will end today! Never thought I could make it! LOOK!! Look at the "before" It's waaayyyy faaaarrr from "after". But guess what!!! not only that my instructor never give up on me, I didnt give up on my self neither. May be I just needed the right push. The motivation that keeps me going. The progress today is worth the pain and time. I finally hit the floor and able to stay for a few sec. I am proud of this achievement😄 LIKE OMFG I CAN DO THIS!! LOL Trust me, no matter what size you are, we can do yoga. I think I did prove it at some point😜 Go get it girls 👊💪

Incorporate a little bit of movement in your mornings or lunch break to get your joints flowing and creative juices moving! 🙌🏼 Try out this routine today - and for tips, modifications and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks! (link in bio✨) Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice 🙏🏼♥️ Thanks for sharing! @roxannegan_ For yoga, core, handstand eBooks: link in profile → @inflexibleyogis

Looking for a new hip stretch routine? Look no further! Try this sequence out to get deeper in your splits, improve low back pain, and more 🙌🏼 For more tips, modifications and progressions to the foundational poses of yoga, check out our ebooks (link in bio✨) Make sure you share this with someone that could benefit and save it for your personal practice 🙏🏼♥️ Thanks for sharing! @samgach For yoga, core, handstand eBooks: link in profile → @inflexibleyogis • • • HIP FLEXIBILITY ROUTINE 💪 Don’t forget to save for later...and then do it 🙂 Time to work that hip flexibility. All of these can be modified to work for your body. This routine can be done daily or every other day for best results in those hips. Without further ado: 1. Wide legged sock slides - 3x10 (go as deep as works for you) 2. Pigeon press ups - 3x10 3. Frog - 3 x 1 min 4. Standing wide legged stretch - 3 x 30 sec 5. Pigeon - 1 min each side 6. Butterfly with forward fold - 45 sec Let’s do this thang 💪🔥