How To: Recharge Your Invincibility* Aura From The Sun

Your basic Hatha Yoga Sun Salutation is an excellent way to start a long day saving the world. Gives you increased flexibility for those high kicks and over time can improve muscle tone. Six - interspersed with stretching or core muscle work like situps, crunches or "plank stretches" - will take you less than 15 minutes in the morning. Don't rush, though: the benefits of yoga come from doing it slow to challenge your muscles, and getting it right.
*nb: may not grant actual invincibility / bulletproofing.



Start by finding a soft piece of grass, a comfy carpet, or preferably a workout/yoga warrior mat.

Position 1: Stand with your feet together and your hands pressed together over your heart. (Prayer Pose)

Position 2: Raise your arms straight above your head.

Position 3: Keeping your arms straight, gently stretch and bend your entire body forward to touch your toes (or as close as you can get..).

Position 4: From where you were, bend your knees and plant your hands firmly on the ground. Lunge your feet backwards one at a time until you are in "plank" position (similar to the starting/"up" position for a pressup, shoulders over your wrists).

Position 5: push your body away from your hands, raising backside as high as you can - you should look like an upside-down Nike "swoosh" or inverted V. This is known as "Downward Dog" . (Nobody seems to be willing to explain why the dog's feeling down, but it is.)

Position 6: return to the "chest press pose". Now drop your body down, holding it just above the floor with your arms, and look straight forward.

Position 7: arch your body and head backwards - only using your arms to support you, not to push until the last stretch. This should work your rear abdominals and gluteal muscles (ie: your backside!)

Position 8: Push yourself up and straight back into Downward Dog.

Position 9: Return to plank/chest press pose. Now step one leg at a time forward as far as you can - you should wind up touching with your hands planted as at the start of Position 4.

Position 10: Bend up so you're touching your toes.

Position 11: Gently swing up to place your arms above your head as in Position 2.

Position 12: Complete one Sun Salutation by bringing your hands back to your Heart Center.

Strung together, the whole thing looks roughly like this:

"A man barely alive..."

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