New variation: 🏃👨‍🍳🦎🐍 shake and bake lizard snake, perfect for sleeping bag yoga

 

This new variation I invented recently, to add to the move set shake and bake 🏃👨‍🍳🥧 <- hyperlink on emoji

I do this move as part of the sleeping bag yoga routine. 

Basically, the frame is similar to these 2 popular yoga poses.

Now instead of a static pose that you hold for 5 seconds, 10 seconds, or whatever, take it off the rails and make it into a mobility exercise with constant motion, twisting this way and that, 

* also flexing the spine inversely every now and then (like alternating updog and down dog principle), 

* adding neck movement,  incorporating different neck exercises like turtle, neck circles, 

* doing pushups like a lizard 🦎 from updog position, I'll pop off 9 or 18 at various speeds, to try to get some circulation and flow into lower arms and wrists, hands, fingers. 

* use your imagination. Just flex your spine as many ways as you can think of, 🐍all the range of motion a snake can make,  keep it moving most of the time, but take pauses to go into a static position like updog or cobra for 5-30 seconds at a time, but not too long that your spine gets sore.

* do this for a couple of minutes, or longer. The key that makes it work is the constant movement, and flexing of the spine allows you to do deeper work melting blockages in your spine and body, heating it up and breaking it down. Compared to just doing yoga static updog and downdog. If you have a sore back with back issues, it's still going to be sore and mostly unfixed afterwards if you just use conventional physical therapy with overly simplistic range of motion, or static stretches. The key that makes the shake and bake family of moves so effective is the continuous motion builds up heat that penetrates to all cells in the body and melts the frozen tight areas. But you have to make sure you spend enough daily time heating the body up and melting the ice, many sessions throughout the day. First make sure you do enough to NOT retrogress, and then figure out how much more you need to do to fix back problems and make forward net progress.

what inspired this move:

Great new move to help with jhana constipation and people with lower back, middle back pain.

I do this move in the morning as part of my 15-20 min. sleeping bag yoga routine (done lying down inside a sleeping back). But I also will do it many times throughout the day in between sitting meditation session. For example, rather than doing a straight 3 hour sit, usually I'll break it up it up into 45 min or 60 min portions with 5-10 of stretching and mobility exercises in between. What this new move replaces, is just vanilla updog and cobra, or updog and cobra with some twisting. Finally the light bulb went off recently and I decided to explore, how much movement can I add into these limited static poses?