Sun Sautation Research Paper

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Sun Salutations, in general, warm up and loosen the body up to perform the rest of the practice. However, there is a specific order in which these Sun Salutations are practiced because of the different poses in each one. It is common to perform five of the Sun Salutation A and then five of the Sun Salutation B.
It is important to recognize that you need to complete Sun Salutation A before Sun Salutation B. This is because Sun Salutation A focuses more on the breathing and opening the body up. It is also more modified than Sun Salutation B. In Sun Salutation A, you focus on each pose, your breathing and the fluidity of it all. This is the beginning stretch of the practice and important in order to be able to add on the harder, strength dependent …show more content…

Here, you feel a stretch in your back and abdomens as you lengthen your body. You then swan dive down into a folded position allowing your head and arms to fall and letting gravity pull you down, all the while exhaling. Next, you inhale and look up, making a flat back with your back and bring your hands to your shins. After you place your hands on the ground and walk back into a high plank. From here you exhale while you chaturanga into a low plank and continue to move into upward dog while inhaling, bending your back and bending your head up to the ceiling and back to your back. You then move into downward dog, placing the balls of your feet on the mat, lifting your torso up to the sky and stretching your shoulders forward. Here you also take five deep breaths. After your five deep breaths, you walk your feet up to your hands.You then inhale, bringing your hands together and straightening your back one vertebrae at a time. As you straighten out, you then stretch your hands above your head, bringing your head up to the sky and continue the same stretch as the beginning. You then exhale bringing your arms back down to your

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