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- Hi everyone. 
Welcome to Yoga With Adriene.

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I'm Adriene and this is Benji

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and today we have some 
yoga tips on the hands.

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So mostly about placement in
Downward Dog but a couple little

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things to just help inspire
or wake up your hands and your

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attention on your hands in your
asana practice in particular.

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So hop into something 
comfy and let's get started.

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(bright music)

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Okie doke my friends, 
let's begin today's practice

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in a nice, comfortable 
seat of your choice.

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We are looking 
at the hands today

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in our practice but you

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also selected this video
probably in an effort to take

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some time for yourself,
learn something,

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explore, improve your practice
which of course has a direct

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effect on your life so let's
go ahead and start by taking a

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moment to just tune in,
collect ourselves,

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connect to the breath 
and find what feels good.

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So wherever you are, 
sit up nice and tall.

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Find length through the crown

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and you can close your eyes
if you're feeling adventurous or

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soften your gaze down 
gently past your nose.

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Then draw the hands 
mindfully together at the heart

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and take a deep breath in.

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And as you exhale, 
just relax your shoulders.

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Let go of the day thus far and

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just take a second 
to feel your breath.

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Feel yo'self

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and trust that this is 
valuable time and energy

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and that you've 
carved out for you.

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We always talk about the journey
being the reward in yoga but

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then we bypass the journey and
the process of learning a lot.

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So I admire you for taking
time to explore with this video.

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And play.

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Alright, just take one 
more cycle of breath here.

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Inhaling in.

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And exhaling out.

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And then we'll open the eyes.

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You might have a little fun.

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Flutter the eyelashes open.

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Benji's alert.

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Here we go, we're gonna
press the elbows left to right.

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Really feeling this connection,
palm to palm.

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It's holy palmer's kiss.

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Name where that's from down in
the comment section down below.

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So a nice active press here.

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Again, elbows left to right.

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Shoulders are gonna wanna creep
up here but we're gonna keep

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them drawing down, lifting the
sternum up towards the thumbs.

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Spread the fingertips super wide
so thumbs are reaching towards

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the sternum and pinkies are
reaching towards the front.

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So they're actively 
stretching away from each other.

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Great, take another 
deep breath in.

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And then on the exhale,
close the fingers,

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bring everything in towards
each other, keep pressing.

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Open, spread 
the fingertips wide.

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And close.
And twice more.

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Open.

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And close.

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Woo and last one, open.

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And close.
Awesome, take a rest.

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Just allow your wrists 
or your hands

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to rest gently on your knees.

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So the thing is 
in these exercises,

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and I'm gonna link to a healthy
amount of really awesome yoga

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for the hands and wrists videos.

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These videos have some of my
favorite, favorite things that

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I just teach over and over and
over again for building strength

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in the hands and wrists.

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Stability as well 
so check them out.

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But the thing is you have
to remember if you're really

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feeling it in your hands, 
you're probably gonna

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benefit from regular practice.

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So the more you do it, right?

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The bigger shift and you'll
start to notice in your poses,

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in your asana practice as well.

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Alright, bring the 
hands together again.

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Interlace the fingertips nice
and easy just press the palms

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forward, stretching 
through the forearms.

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Plug the shoulders into socket.

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Breathe in.

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Breathe out.

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Breathe in.

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The next time you 
breathe out take your hands,

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press them, slide them 
over towards the right.

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Good, breathe in, 
come back to center.

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Breathe out as you take them,

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slide them over 
towards the left.

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Benji, Benji!

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What's up, buddy?

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Inhale, come back to center.

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We're gonna release,

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palms face up now 
on the knees or the thighs.

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Great, index finger 
and thumb come together.

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We press them together.
Keep breathing.

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Then just 
continuing down the line,

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pressing into all fingers.

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Back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth.

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This reminds me of a video we
have on the Find What Feels Good

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membership, it's a Kundalini
meditation called Satanama.

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Of course in this case we're
actively pressing the

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fingerprints together, 
active, active.

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In that one it's a bit softer
but it's an amazing meditation.

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If you're interested in it,
go check it out.

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Alright, release that.

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Send the fingertips forward,
palms face down.

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Then draw your 
hands into knuckles,

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into fists and you're just
gonna draw the knuckles down.

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Woo, yeah and then up.

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Down and then up.

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Ooh!

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Down. (chuckles)

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And then up.

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And down, last time,
and then up.

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And now open the palms
wide, super wide like starfish.

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Dial the pinkies down, 
out, externally rotate,

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down, down, down and then up.

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Woo!

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Down.

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And then up.

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One more time, down.

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And then up.

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And you can notice how it all
moves together in one moving

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part which we're gonna put
into play now on all fours.

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So go ahead and 
come to all fours.

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Nice and easy.

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Okay, so a tip here is each time
you're placing the hands to the

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earth you have a chance to

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really just thank 
the earth. Right?

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It's about alignment but it's
also about like the meaning you

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give to things and that 
can really help inform your

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alignment in a way that I think

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we should explore 
a little more in yoga.

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So come on down.

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Knees are 
underneath the hips,

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wrists are underneath
the shoulders.

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And you might just 
notice your pattern here of

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coming a little bit narrow.

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Rarely do I see 
someone go too wide.

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Usually it's too narrow.

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So bring your wrists 
right underneath your elbow,

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elbow right underneath 
the shoulder for Tabletop.

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And take a look at your hands.

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Spread them super wide here so
you feel the webbing between

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each finger stretching.

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And then see if you 
can really root down

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through your fingerprints.

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Really root down 
through your knuckles.

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Keep going.

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And then reaffirm this
connection that is between your

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index finger and thumb.

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Yes, this is 
where we want to be.

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So we're taking pressure out of
the wrists almost completely by

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really connecting 
through the knuckles,

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through the fleshy part between
the index finger and thumb and

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clawing through the fingertips.

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Keep breathing here.

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Now elbow creases 
are gonna shine forward,

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biceps towards the 
front edge of the mat.

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So you start with the hands and
then we allow that to rotate up

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towards the shoulders.

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And it's one 
big connection here.

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Great, let's take it 
Cat-Cow 'cause why not?

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This time is valuable but also
to add breath and movement to

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see if you can maintain what
you have going on in the hands.

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So whenever you're 
ready drop the belly,

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open the chest.

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Breathe in.

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And then exhale,

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really establish or re-establish
with the hands as you round

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through the spine.

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So there's this yielding, you're
pressing away from the yoga mat.

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We're not just collapsing
into the hands or the wrists.

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Yes. And with practice 
and with strengthening,

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stretching, building stability
in the hands and wrists

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this will become easier.

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Okay, come back to 
a nice neutral spine.

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Now we're gonna continue the
rotation all the way around.

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You might need to walk 
your knees in just a bit.

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And in particular if you feel
any pain around the wrists,

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go ahead and walk the knees in

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and start nice and 
close to the fingertips.

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So same thing, I'm trying to
claw through the fingertips.

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Connect knuckle to mat.

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Really, really strong.

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And then establish or 
re-establish over and over this

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connection that's between 
my index finger and thumb.

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In time you'll be 
able to walk back here,

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create more space, more length.

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But again, if you feel any
pinching or any pain at all,

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just walk those 
knees up and work here.

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So this is also 
great to do on a wall.

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You can do this one hand on a
wall one way and then the other,

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one at a time or 
both at the same time.

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Take one more 
cycle of breath here.

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You're doin' awesome.

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And then return 
to Tabletop Position.

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Really be meticulous 
about the hands here.

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The wrists stacked 
underneath the shoulders.

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And then memorize 
this for your practice.

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Tabletop Position, this
nice strong base to work from.

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Cool.

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Awesome. From here 
we'll curl the toes under,

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send the hips back.

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Just take a second, 
come off the wrists.

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You can rotate them 
one way and then the other.

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Okay, so another little tip
for today's practice is the

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placement of hands 
in Downward Facing Dog.

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So you can check out the
Downward Dog Foundations video

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which is super old (laughs)
but check it out and then in

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addition you'll have the 
hand and wrist videos in the

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description but one thing I'm
seeing a lot lately in photos

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and videos and definitely in
studio classes and live events

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is the placement for the hands

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for Downward Dog 
is really narrow.

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So let's come to check that out.

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So we're gonna 
come back to all fours.

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We're gonna walk the hands out
this time creating diagonal line

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from wrist to shoulder.

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So again, 
same thing as in Table,

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we have to actually 
start at the bottom,

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start at the base.

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So I'm seeing 
beautiful hand placement.

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Maybe even a great 
connection of fingerprints,

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of knuckles working to spread
that weight out on the palm,

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not the wrist but my hands
are pretty narrow usually here,

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I'm seeing a lot so when I come
into Downward Dog I can't really

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find a lot of rotation 
in my shoulders here.

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I can't get my shoulder blade
to drop down and wrap around the

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body because my 
hands are too narrow.

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I don't have a fighting chance.

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So go ahead and 
let's just explore,

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we'll just workshop 
a little bit today,

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go ahead and bring your pinkies

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towards the outer 
edges of your mat.

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Like all the way.

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And then place your hands there.

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Almost to where your pinky nail
is kind of coming off the mat.

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And then imagine you're opening
a pickle jar with your right

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hand to the right.

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Elbow crease, 
everything connects,

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you know that.

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And then left hand to the left,
everything connects.

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So elbow crease is forward.

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And if you have 
a lot of mobility,

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hypermobility even or just plain
old flexibility in your elbows,

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you're gonna want 
to really work hard

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to maintain that micro-bend.

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And that's really for everyone
but if you have hypermobility

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you're gonna wanna
just keep it on your list, baby.

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So hands are nice and wide here.

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My index finger and thumb are
pointing toward the front edge

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of the mat so not 
towards each other.

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So for example, 
peek at the video here,

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instead of placing the hands
like this for Downward Dog,

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I'm placing them like this.

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Let's see what happens.

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Find the connection 
with your hands.

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Connect that to the elbow
joint to the shoulder joint.

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Wrap the shoulder blades around.

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Curl the toes under 
and send the hips up high

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with this nice wide base.

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Ah.

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Pedal it out, explore.

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Nice wide base of the hands
which translates all the way up

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to the shoulders 
which translates

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to all of the shoulder blade,

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the lat, the way 
I can relax my traps,

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and even the way I engage
transverse abdominis and hug

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my low ribs in for 
this connection here.

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So all because of my hand
placement I'm able to find this

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chain, this connection.

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Inhale, exhale 
to slowly release.

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Nice work.

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Just come to a nice, easy seat.

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Your choice.

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We're just gonna cross one
arm over the body here like so.

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Wiggle the fingertips maybe
and then release and switch.

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So I have a friend

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who's also my coach at 
the gym who often talks

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about connection versus position
and sometimes I think we get a

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little wrapped up in learning
the correct or most traditional

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posture and we 
forget how important it

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is for us to make 
that connection.

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And if you do any sort of
resistance training or strength

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training you know 
what I'm talking about too.

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So just kind of bringing 
that into our practice.

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Okay, come into a Dundasana now.

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So you're gonna come 
to sit on your bum.

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Flex the feet 
up towards the sky.

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We'll take the 
fingertips forward.

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Draw 'em into knuckles again.

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And once again, 
we'll just go down with

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the knuckles and then up.

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And down and up.

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Try to sit up 
nice and tall here,

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down and up.

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Down and up.

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And then open the palms wide.

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You're gonna spiral 
them down and then up.

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Down and then up.

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Down and then up.

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And then down and the 
next time you're down,

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go ahead and take your right
hand to your left fingers and

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press nice and easy the forearm

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and the wrist 
through for a stretch.

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And then switch.

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Right fingertips down, 
left fingertips come in.

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Big stretch here.
Breathing deep.

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Excellent, then release.

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You're gonna bring now 
the knuckles to the ground and

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you're gonna walk them 
back so that your wrists

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come close to the earth.

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Then we'll loop the
shoulders and you can

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open the palms wide here.
They kind of blossom out

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as you feel nice, deep stretch.

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Lift from the pelvic floor.

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Flex your feet toward your face.

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Big breath in.

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Long breath out.

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And now Staff Pose, traditional.

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Bring the hands 
right at the waistline.

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Spread the fingers.

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Press away from your yoga mat.

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If the fingers or hands,
excuse me,

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don't come to the mat,
just tent the palms,

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press into your fingers, 
lift up through the chest.

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Breathing deep.

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You're doing awesome.

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Gorgeous.

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Then send the 
fingertips forward.

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Slowly roll all the 
way down to your back,

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nice and easy.

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Bring the knees 
up towards the chest.

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Hug them in.

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Rock a little side to side.

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Find what feels good.

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And then from here you could
slide your hands to the backs of

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the thighs rock all the way up.

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Maybe you rock a couple 
times if it feels awesome.

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And if you're ready to close out
this little workshop then come

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to a nice comfortable seat or
pause the video and start to

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work in your Downward Dog,
your Plank Position,

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Gate Pose, Tabletop and play
with this position of the hands

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and notice how the position of
the hands has everything to do

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with how you connect with the
rest of your body when you're

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doing those 
weight bearing postures.

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I'll link to other videos in
the description down below.

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If you're ready to rock out,
let's bring palms together.

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Start to create a little
friction, a little heat.

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Nice, swift

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rubbing of the palms together.

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Sit up nice and tall.

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And then exhale, bring 
your hands to your chest.

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Just feel the energy.

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Give thanks for this time
that you've taken for yourself.

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May it inspire you to 
get on the mat more and more.

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Remember a little goes a long
way and regular practice and

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regular check-ins with 
your breath and your body

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will bring the most results.

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Bring the palms together.

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Thumbs up to the third eye.

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Inhale in.

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Exhale to bow.

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Thanks everyone.

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Namaste.

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