Mental Health Webinar: De-Stress with Yoga

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The opening of this shiur, in JOWMA’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay great so i will just get started hello everyone welcome to yoga um we decided to do this today as part of our new wellness initiative for joma to give everybody a little bit of a break and pause between the holidays and happy holidays i hope everyone's doing well thus far and enjoying themselves um as we know a lot of stress can can build as we know a lot of stress can can build during this time period so i am here to help you cope with that and just give you a little uh time to carve out in your in your busy schedules for some self-care which um is super important i always like to put out there that it's really very difficult to take care of others unless we take care of ourselves so thank you for coming today and doing this for yourself and for for all your this for yourself and for for all your loved ones um it's going to be a basic yoga practice that we're doing so we're going to start out with some breathing and then we're going gonna move into some soft asana or yoga poses um and then we'll close with a meditation um so hopefully you'll just follow along um if you have props if you have blocks for instance um definitely have them ready by your mat you can see my setup behind me me so i have my mat and my strap and then i have two blocks and if you have a blanket that could also be helpful to elevate your seat on when we do our seated poses so does anyone have any questions before we begin if you want to ask anything you can put them in the chat box or the q a either one okay we're good to go then um so we'll come back onto the map

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1. 0:00okay great so i will just get started hello everyone welcome to yoga um we decided…
2. 5:10one more time inhale for four hold and exhale soften your forehead and your brows all…
3. 11:24and then extend the leg up towards the ceiling slowly support the outside of the left…
4. 17:29towards your head and just let your head relax you can even shake it out a…
5. 23:13and lower to your belly as we did before forehead than that inhale combo lifting your…
6. 28:56the back arch and take your hands onto your hips if they're not take a deep…
7. 34:14pull the navel back and then release down and shake everything out love to say great…
8. 40:15and we'll just take a simple vinyasa here inhale to plank shoulders over wrists exhale lower…
9. 46:02knees out of your back shoulder check to see that your front foot is flexed breathe…
10. 52:12last so you want to maintain the cool calming quality of your energy now as we…

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