Stretching Exercise for Feet

Video Transcript

"So now I want you to bring the souls of the feet together. Ideally, you want to eventually work them towards the body but I don't want you to be really concerned about that right now, I want you just to get comfortable by bringing the souls of the feet together, wrapping the hands around the feet. We're going to be pull-up and out of our waist, our abs are pulled in, our shoulders are down. We're just going to hold it here for a minute and breathe, deep inhale and on the exhale feel the knees open up just a little bit more. Good, again, deep inhale and exhale. This time, I want you to place your left hand on top of your left thigh, make sure your hand is not on top of your knee, instead it's on top of the thigh. You're going to place your right hand behind the back and you're just going to open-up through that left knee. I?m just going a little deeper into the stretch. Inhale and exhale and then let's switch sides. As you apply just a little bit of pressure to that right thigh, you're getting a really deep stretch through the right hip. Not to deep. You shouldn't feel any pain in the thigh and you shouldn't feel any pain in the hip, it should be just a gentle opening. Good, now bring the hands back onto the feet, again pulling up and out of the waist. I?m going to round the spine. I?m going to pull in through my center and I?m going to round over but again, I want you to keep in mind, I?m pulling up and out of the waist first. I?m going to inhale up and I?m going to exhale getting longer. See how I?m going past my feet and reaching over, compared to just dropping here? You're going to reach up and over, lengthening but I am rounding through the spine, my abs are pulled in, my knees are working towards the floor and my shoulders are down. So there's a lot to think about. Deep breath, deep inhale, deep exhale. You should feel it start to open-up through the hips. A couple more deep breaths here. Stay pulled in through your center and keep the shoulders down. Work those knees to the floor, rounding through the spine without hunching through the shoulders, relax that neck and slowly pull in through your center, allowing the neck to be the last to arrive and you'll slowly come up to a seated position."