Exercises You Can Do in Bed
Next, looking down towards your chest as you exhale, pause, pressing your chin toward your chest.
Inhale as you stretch up, looking toward the ceiling. Repeat.
Stretch your right ear toward your right shoulder as you exhale. Pause.
On the next inhalation, stretch up through the center and exhale over to your left side and pause. Repeat as desired.
Inhale your right shoulder up toward your ear and exhale back down.
Repeat on the other side.
Alternate shoulders stretching both up as you inhale. Pause and hold the breath in.
Exhale and fully release.
Sunbreath
Sit in a comfortable upright position with your arms at your sides.
Inhale and slowly lift your arms out to your sides and overhead.
Your palms will face down until the back of your hands meet overhead.
Pause. Rotate your palms to face each other and gently touch your fingers and palms together.
As you exhale, begin to slowly lower your arms back down.
Your palms will now face toward the ceiling.
Let your breath assist your stretch so that it becomes more effortless.
This breath brings balance to the body, harmonizing heaven and earth energies, or feminine and masculine energies within the body.
Repeat this breath seven times-staying focused on the breath itself -and breathing more slowly each time.
Morning yoga in bed poses provided by Naomi Sophia Call from her book Yoga in Bed: Awaken, Body Mind and Spirit in Fifteen Minutes published by Findhorn Press. For more go to: http://www.findhornpress.com and on iTunes and iBooks.
