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“Mind Body CoolDown,” published on Reebok’s website, Winter 2005 I think it would be great to begin standing w/Ta’i Chi with the following to Sink the Chi 4 times for breath awareness and management to bring down the pulse. Focus on the exhalation as arms move down. Then Supporting Heaven 4 times to stretch the lats and focus on the inhalation. Then we use yoga’s Low Lunge to take us to the floor and stretch and open hip flexors. After using yoga itself as our transition to get to the floor, we focus on posture and breath in Seated Palm. To open the chest and work on improving our posture in this mind-body section of class, we lift the chest and focus on extension with breath in Lifted Chest Proud Palm. Then we open the obliques and stretch the Quadratus Lumborum with Leaning Palm Tree. We finish opening up the hamstrings with Downward Facing Dog which works on toning upper body stability while enhancing simultaneously lower body hamstring mobility. Finishing with opening up the glutes is from Pigeon, putting the head down onto the floor in front of the flexed knee. Finally, not pictured, we sit back in Proud Palm from Yoga and practice Feldenkrais exercise which occurs in SILENCE, called “a Full Body Scan.” We take 60 seconds to concentrate and connect to our feelings and breath, comparing these sensations to before the workout. We notice what is tight, what has opened, and we congratulate ourselves with positive selftalk aobut having made another step further in wellness.
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