Yoga brick is an auxiliary tool when doing yoga movements. Mainly to prevent strain when doing difficult movements. In the yoga pose, some movements need to extend your arms completely or bend down to touch the ground. Auxiliary bricks can help beginners stretch pelvis, and then slowly adjust the distance between yoga bricks and the ground, and gradually complete perfect actions such as self-softening and stretching. When doing some schools of yoga movements, in order to seek the absolute standard of movements, yoga bricks are used to assist the movements.

In the yoga pose, some movements need to completely extend the arm or lower the back to touch the ground, and yoga bricks can help stretch the bones and muscles; When doing hand touching postures such as triangle stretching, the hand can be supported on the yoga brick; When doing kyphosis, using yoga bricks to support the body can reduce the probability of injury, and make every movement in place on the basis of safety, thus strengthening the body shaping effect; Or in the hero sitting posture and king kong sit, if the practitioner's instep is not soft enough to finish correctly, you can borrow the help of yoga bricks.

Characteristics of Yoga Bricks

Non-slip, waterproof, environmental protection and non-toxic.

Flexible and crack-resistant, light and durable.

Improve the flexibility of the body step by step.

This helps each movement to achieve the required accuracy.

Office workers skillfully use yoga bricks

In the office, if you really can't sit up straight, you might as well buy some yoga bricks to fill the gap in your back or chair. With this support, your waist will not collapse, but you will stand up straight.

Yoga bricks are tired, work is tired, watching computer is tired, and you want to have a rest, so stretch yourself. In yoga, this is called invigorating qi. Stretching can completely open the lungs, chest, arms, waist and abdomen, and let oxygen fill the whole body. Think of yourself as a barrel. When your chest, back and arms are opened and straightened a little, your body will stretch out and feel refreshed instantly.

In particular, I want to mention a kind of people, that is, when standing, their toes rotate outward, and such people can also be corrected with yoga bricks. Toe external rotation is because the pelvis is tilted, and the inner side of the body can hardly be practiced at ordinary times, so special exercise is needed. In the office, sit up straight with your legs at a 90-degree angle, and then put a yoga brick between your knees. At this point, you will find that the inner thigh is working hard. If you persist for a long time, the pelvis will slowly straighten.

Now that you have yoga bricks, you must use them correctly. If used improperly, it will affect the effect of practice.

Yoga brick posture:

1. Supported bridge variants

Lie down, knees bent, feet open to hip width.

Take a few deep breaths, then put your feet on the ground, push the mat down with your big arms, inhale, and lift your hips and spine to the simple bridge.

The bricks are placed horizontally, just below the sacrum (the triangle bone at the lower end of the spine).

First, put the bricks at the bottom. If it's so comfortable, you can leave them here, or you can turn the bricks around and raise them a little. Choose the height that suits you and let your hips rest completely on the brick.

It's good to stay here, but if you want to make a variant like the one in the picture, hold your right knee with your right hand, draw your chest closer, and put your hands crossed in the knee socket.

Slowly straighten your left leg and land on your heel. Push your left heel forward and your right thigh close to your chest.

Keep breathing for 5- 10 times.

Release your hands, return your right foot to the ground, then bend your left knee and step on the ground with your sole. Hold your breath and switch sides.

2. Down dog variety

Let's talk about the four-corner bench style first. As shown in the figure, two bricks are placed at the front end of the mat to ensure that the bricks are pressed against the mat and will not slide.

Put one hand on the brick and make sure that the palm is flat and the root of the palm is at the edge of the brick.

In order to stabilize hands, the little finger grasps the outside of the brick and the thumb grasps the inside of the brick.

Inhale, then exhale, tiptoe back to the ground, hips up and back, and do a downward dog pose.

Hands against the brick, arms and biceps against the ground, hips up and back, spine extended.

If you feel that your lower back is squeezed, open your feet a little or bend your knees.

Keep your hands against the brick and your hips up and back. Take your time, take a deep breath and hold on for 1-2 minutes.

When you come out, kneel down and breathe a few times like a baby.

3. Upper dog variant

Do the front dog pose first. Then start from this pose, inhale and walk forward to the ramp, with your hands still on the bricks and your wrists directly below your shoulders.

The instep sticks to the ground, and the buttocks begin to sink.

Keep your arms straight, put your hands firmly against the bricks and hold your chest out. The clavicle is unfolded and the thigh is lifted off the ground.

The lower abdomen is retracted and lifted, and the coccyx is extended forward to find the heel.

Keep breathing for 3-5 times, then hook your toes back to the ground, turn your hips up and down, and return to the down dog position.

Get down on your knees and relax a few times like a baby.

4. Crescent deformation body

Start with the four-legged bench pose, knees backward, and come to the back of the hips. If your knees are sensitive, you can put a towel or blanket under your knees.

Put a brick on the inside of the right hand, the lowest height. Carefully, put your right knee forward and your right foot forward on the brick.

Make sure the heel and sole are supported by bricks. The left knee is behind the hip.

Put your hands on your right thigh and your hips forward. The lower abdomen contracts and lifts, and the coccyx goes down to find the ground.

Keep breathing for 5- 10 times.

Come out, press the mat with both hands, push it down with both hands, gently slide your right foot down the yoga brick, and land your right knee backwards.

Breathe a few times in the baby's position, and then repeat to the left.

Step 5 twist the triangle

Start with Yamagata and stand in front of the mat. Bricks are erected and placed in the highest position on the outside of the left leg.

Hands akimbo, right leg back, about 1 10 cm.

The heels are in a straight line, and the left heel is facing forward. Put your hands on your hips and straighten your hips forward.

Inhale and raise your left arm to your ear. Exhale, fold down from the hips, and the upper body is parallel to the ground.

Put your left hand on the brick and your right hand on your hip. Try to keep a straight line from the top of your head to the tailbone.

Inhale and put your head forward. Exhale and twist your body from the abdomen to the right. Then the ribs and the chest.

The right hand can always be placed on the hip and pressed against the right wall. Or raise your right hand and look at the fingertips above.

Keep breathing for 5-8 times.

Inhale when you come out and loosen your wrist. Put your hands back on your hips and your feet down. Inhale and stand up. Then switch sides.