This movement snack explores 360-degree breathing with a strap (you can also use a resistance band, a belt, or something similar). For many of us, sensing the back of the body and even the sides doesn’t come so easily. The brain connection to that area is fuzzy… The strap is a great tool to begin creating the link.

This movement snack explores a sitting pigeon pose where you take one hip into external rotation and the other into internal rotation. In addition, it challenges us to hold our hips in external rotation without the support of the other leg, making us use our own neural-muscular control.

This sequence explores our ability to tilt the pelvis forward, backward, and laterally. It also challenges us to hold our pelvis neutral as we move towards child’s pose and back to tabletop position.

his dynamic balasana-vajrasana sequence asks us to add some variable loading for the toes, ankles, and knees. With that, our joints get more resilient. We feel strong and firmly grounded on our own two feet.

Here is a side-bend snack to keep you cool and calm during the summer season or if you are experiencing signs of excess heat in the body (acidic digestion, heartburn, loose stools) and in the mind (irritability, anger, jealousy). Side bending can also improve breathing capacity and spinal mobility and increase the range of motion in the shoulders and hips.

Play with these combined movements of the neck and eyes to release strain in those areas and experience your head balancing lightly atop your neck with easeful breath.

The idea here is to bring movement to the knees to bring more awareness to the back of the knees and possibly more strength to the hamstrings. It also improves circulation in this area increasing lymph flow and reducing swelling.

The idea here is to bring movement to the shoulder blades, creating optimal ranges of motion, greater neural control of motion, and improving circulation in this area to lift up the heaviness of Kapha, preventing its accumulation.

It is time to lighten up so we can stay inspired and revitalized during the springtime!

For this month, your movement snack is upper-mid back spinal articulation that you can do on the floor or on a chair. Keeping this area moving will help release stagnation and invigorate the body and mind to feel light and bright.

For this month, your movement snack is a reset practice that you can do on the floor or on a chair. We are so used to holding in our abdomen the entire day that we don't spend very much time moving our core dynamically.