{"id":22403,"date":"2021-06-07T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T19:11:18","slug":"yoga-pose-modifications-for-flexibility-with-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/2021\/06\/07\/yoga-pose-modifications-for-flexibility-with-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Pose Modifications for Flexibility with Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our yogi friend Dave is back with a few helpful modifications to some favorite poses if you are working on your flexibility in your practice.\u00a0So grab some blocks, or perhaps a textbook or some towels, and try these at home!<\/p>\n

1) Easy Seat: Place a block under your sit bones to make space for your hips to tilt forward then straighten your back.<\/p>\n

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2) Pigeon Pose: Place a block under your hip and come up onto your elbows.<\/p>\n

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3) Halfway Lift: Rest palms on blocks to focus on maintaining a flat back. The added height from the blocks will help in assisting your stretch.<\/p>\n

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4) Downward Dog: Bend your knees allowing you to focus on elongating and straightening your back.<\/p>\n

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5) Revolved Triangle Pose: Place hand on block to support you as you focus on elongating your back and gently twisting your spine.<\/p>\n

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Our yogi friend Dave is back with a few helpful modifications to some favorite poses if you are working on your flexibility in your practice.\u00a0So grab some blocks, or perhaps a textbook or some towels, and try these at home! 1) Easy Seat: Place a block under your sit bones to make space for your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22409,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions\/22409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/fitrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}