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Yoga Stretches! Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Videos with Kati Morton | Kati Morton

Yoga Stretches! Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Videos with Kati Morton | Kati Morton

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Alexander Collins


– Hey, everyone! Today’s video is a little bit different than my other videos. Today, I’m going to teach you
some stretching techniques, I guess, or ways to stretch,
that can be relaxing. And I am not a yoga instructor. I am not a physical trainer or therapist or anything like that. But these are things that I personally do to help me relax, so stay tuned. (piano music) So like I said, we’re
gonna do some techniques that I like to do to stretch and relax. So the first thing I always
do is get into child’s pose. Now, you want to have your toes, my big toes are touching back here. I’m gonna have my knees
as wide as my ribs, and then I’m gonna stretch
myself out forward. And you wanna rest this part
of your head onto the floor, and you can feel this stretch not only in my back, my low back,
up between my shoulders, but you can also feel it
kind of in your rear end. And so you hold this, and
you want to do every stretch for at least five full breaths. And so we take out time with that. And from there, I usually
move into down dog. And for any of you that don’t do yoga, I do yoga quite frequently, you want to put your hands opened down, thumbs facing in, you almost want to make an “L” with your pointer and your thumb, and you want to kick up into down dog. Now, for many of you,
you might be like this because the back of your legs, your hamstrings and your achilles tendon are gonna be quite tight. So you can bend your knees, that’s okay. But for any of you that stretch more, or are more flexible, you can straighten your legs. And you want to create
sort of an upside-down V or an A, without the line. And we hold this. And my favorite stretch of all time. We’re gonna come down onto
my knees from down dog. And we’re gonna curl our toes under. This is my favorite stretch, because I wear heels a
lot and my feet hurt. And I know I probably
shouldn’t wear heels, but I do anyway. And we’re gonna curl our toes under, and you wanna make sure this little guy, this little weird toe on the end, you know, you’re little
one, that he’s there too. So you want to curl them all under. And for some of you, like Kati, I can’t even sit back on my heels. And you can rise up and
have them like that anyway without any pressure. Or, if you’re really flexible you can come back into it so you’re putting more pressure
on your feet to stretch. And oh, sweet mother
of God, it feels good. So we can do this. And this one, you want to
hold for a really long time. As long as you can tolerate it. In yoga, they always say, when you run out of tolerance, it’s just your mind is
coming into it too much, and you’re supposed to not
let your mind take over. It’s like, mind over matter. But after you come out, you
kinda wanna flap your feet. Shake them out. And then we’re going to turn around, and we’re going to do some other stretches for different parts of your body. So this stretch is kind
of isolating our obliques on the side of our body. And this can feel really good, because honestly this isn’t
a stretch that we ever do. Like, ever, in normal bending motions unless you’re like reaching to the side. So we’re gonna grab, and if you can’t, then bend your knee, obviously. We’re gonna give ourselves more space. But for those of you
who are more flexible, we’re gonna grab our foot on the inside, and we’re gonna tilt. And you want your eyes to follow your hand and we’re gonna hold, like I said. And you might be like this,
because it might be really hard. Or you might be all laid out
because you’re a ballerina. But we want to make sure
that we stretch that. And this also stretches out your ribcage, and it can make you feel
like you can breathe better. And so we do that, and we’re going to switch
over to the other side because we always wanna
make everything even. Do the same thing, reach
on the inside of your foot, thumb facing down, and
we’re gonna reach over. Oh, feels good. Especially if you drive in a car a lot, or you sit at a desk,
or anything like that, it can feel really good. And so we’ll stretch there. And then we’re gonna stretch forward, because this stretches the
entire backside of our body. So we’re gonna reach forward. And like I said, you may not
be able to touch your feet so you may just reach like this and that may be all that you need to get. You may have no trouble
reaching your feet, you may reach past, you may lay down flat. And this also, if you
don’t have much time, I think this is why I love yoga so much, is we can double up. So I can pull back on my toes, like the other pose I was doing when I was sitting on my feet, and this is almost like two in one. Because I can hold this for
the same amount of time, I get two stretches. So, that’s kind of like multitask. So we hold that. So I always like this one too, where you kinda grab the
bottoms of your feet, they call it like the
butterfly stretch and stuff, and I forget, I think there’s
probably a better term for it, but that’s what we’ve always called it. And I kinda wiggle waggle myself into it, because you wanna bring your heels as close to your bum as you can, and you kinda wanna lean forward. And you can push. You can use your elbows and you
can push down on your thighs to give you more space
and to stretch out more. But you may be like this, and that might be as much
as you can get out of it. But that doesn’t matter, because we’re all getting
the benefit of it. So we do that, and we hold that, like I said for five slow breaths. And it ends up being about 30 seconds. But make sure you take your time with it. And if you wanna hold one
longer than another, do that. And then the last stretch
that I would have us do, and you can do this one, like I said you can multitask, while you’re sitting on your toes to stretch your feet like
I showed you earlier. But I’m just relaxing my
feet and sitting down, and then I’m gonna reach this hand out, and I’m gonna put my hand over my ear and just pull, lightly, pull. And you’ll feel the stretch. And you can even tilt
your head up and down, until you feel it stretching
a certain part of your neck, and oh, it feels so good. And then we hold that for five breaths, and then we switch over. We gotta do the other side. And so, some sides, like my left side is always tighter than my right. I don’t know if it’s
because I’m left handed or if I’m doing something
weird, but it always is. And so, we wanna make
sure that we’re breathing through every exercise, every move, that we’re holding it for five breaths, we’re taking our time, and this is just another great
way to do some self care. If you have time at the end of your day, take the 10 minutes out
of your day to do this, and I think you’ll feel a lot better. And like I said, we’re always
working together, right? Not only towards a healthy
mind, but a healthy body. So this is a great way
to start doing that. Let me know if you liked this
video and give it a thumbs up. I can do more kind of
relaxation techniques if you like those. But, you know, whatever
will help us to relax, to rejuvenate, and to get
back to our life, okay? So take care, and I will see you soon. Like, wow that’s intense. You’re getting pretty loud. I know you’re hungry,
I’ll feed you in a minute. It was like aggressive (growls). Okay, ready? Hey, everyone. This video, or, blegh. I don’t like that. I don’t like that, it’s just an intro. What am I doing? I don’t get this. It’s so different. It makes me nervous.

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34 thoughts on “Yoga Stretches! Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Videos with Kati Morton | Kati Morton”

  1. Eloise Eighteen says:
    July 29, 2013 at 6:42 pm

    Yoga! Whoop whoop 😀 x

    Reply
  2. PrincessKLS says:
    July 29, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    I've always wanted to try yoga but it's so hard for me. Anyway congrats on getting married.

    Reply
  3. TheGStar x says:
    July 29, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    i dont know why but for some reason i was watching this waiting for your house phone to ring?

    Reply
  4. TheGStar x says:
    July 29, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    Hey Everyone! This vid blahhhhhhh lol 🙂

    Reply
  5. imb Aisling says:
    July 29, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    I love this girl :') xx

    Reply
  6. Kathy Hawkins says:
    July 29, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    Thanks for making this, Kati! I just feel in love with yoga! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Darz says:
    July 29, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    I really liked this. Had never considered yoga before. Thanks very much!!

    Reply
  8. TheOfficialMG says:
    July 29, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    i LOOOVE stretching. I do a little more hardcore junk that hurts like splits but it still feels good at the end. Nice video(:

    Reply
  9. HollyMarie005 says:
    July 29, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Hey Kati!
    Can you tell me what is the best way to reach you to get some personal advice from you? I don't have the time to ask my question now because i'm in a lot of stress but i really need some advice from you… Your videos help me so much but they don't cover all my issues…Anyway keep up your great work you're so awsome and helpful!

    Reply
  10. Laura Jaine says:
    July 29, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    I love this video & I love stretching! I do ballet & pole dancing & I love the stretching part, I have benefited so much. Kino yoga does really good videos on yoga here on youtube & she is lovely too!

    Reply
  11. Dreamie Mcdreamerson says:
    July 29, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    Hey, Kati!! What are your thoughts on Testosterone Replacement Therapy for depression, anxiety, and just overall mental health? Thanks!! Love that videos!! 🙂

    Reply
  12. Rebekah Walker says:
    July 29, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    Thank you!! Ive been trying to get into yoga, but Im not very flexible and have really bad balance, finding beginner poses is hard! this really helped!

    Reply
  13. Banella G. says:
    July 30, 2013 at 6:12 am

    can you do a video on the law of attraction plz? do you believe in it?

    Reply
  14. Katy Kelly says:
    July 30, 2013 at 12:39 pm

    I LOVE stretching! I get really bad pains in my left side so it helps, I used to always do yoga but then kind of forgot about it, thank you for the tips 🙂

    Reply
  15. Lindsay DeMara says:
    July 30, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    Love yoga!!! I didn't get into until my first semester back to school. I took a beginners yoga class and loved it!!! My fav pose is when you have one leg bent in front and the other leg straight back and you lean forward over the leg that is bent. That stretch feels sooo good hahaha..

    Reply
  16. Marissa McHugh says:
    July 30, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    I'll have to try some of these out. Sometimes I'll stretch on my bedroom floor and that helps me unwind.

    Reply
  17. 774748ful says:
    July 31, 2013 at 2:40 am

    I would love to see more relaxation type videos! 🙂

    Reply
  18. Louisyed says:
    August 1, 2013 at 12:03 am

    Definitely want more of these!

    Reply
  19. molliejaynex says:
    August 1, 2013 at 7:58 am

    This is a question for your next Wednesday YouTube Q&A…. Do you have suffer a big event such as any form of abuse/ death of a loved one to suffer from mental illness?

    Reply
  20. Dreamie Mcdreamerson says:
    August 1, 2013 at 8:15 am

    I haven't tried it yet. I've been looking into it heavily though. Even joined a TRT group on facebook. See, I've been dealing with depression, anxiety, low energy, agitation, moodiness, very hard for me to lose fat, and just a poor feeling of wellness. Then I came across TRT and a lot of those symptoms I've been battling against all fit together in with low T. So, I do plan on discussing it with my doc. Just hoping she's open minded about it and doesn't freak out with the mentioning of test.

    Reply
  21. Dreamie Mcdreamerson says:
    August 1, 2013 at 8:16 am

    And yes, I would love for your help looking into it. 🙂 Thank you so very much!!

    Reply
  22. Kylie Vickers says:
    August 24, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    Awesome! Thank you so much for showing ways that I can do it in my very unhealthy state. Off to check out more of your videos and your website. I hope you don't mind but I would love to place links to your videos and any helpful information I find to my site. Again thank you!

    Reply
  23. Kylie Vickers says:
    August 24, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    Awesome! Thank you so much for showing ways that I can do it in my very unhealthy state. Off to check out more of your videos and your website. I hope you don't mind but I would love to place links to your videos and any helpful information I find to my site. Again thank you!

    Reply
  24. Dominick Restivo says:
    November 3, 2013 at 1:24 am

    That was a fantastic video I've never done yoga before and using your video made it really easy to start

    Reply
  25. just a girl says:
    April 29, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    U should do more videos like this

    Reply
  26. Painted rainbows says:
    May 4, 2014 at 11:55 am

    Im doing yoga abd mindfulness at school now for my sport

    Reply
  27. vicki Quiroz says:
    April 4, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    amen

    Reply
  28. Joseph Holder says:
    October 23, 2016 at 5:52 am

    thank you so much 🙂

    Reply
  29. Laura J says:
    March 19, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    I tried this and loved it. I do it at the end of my usual workout to relax. As I've never done yoga before, it's simple enough to follow. Thank you x

    Reply
  30. Carrie O'Brien says:
    May 21, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    Thank you so much for this video! I've been wanting to find something just like this, along with it not making me feel horrible if I can't do it "just so". Your open kindness is a balm to a painful soul. Thank you again.

    Reply
  31. genbidi1 says:
    August 9, 2017 at 7:48 am

    Could you do an exercise videos for people in wheelchairs?? or suggest links

    thanks

    Reply
  32. Mama G says:
    September 26, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    I am so glad I looked at this video….I have been resistant to my dieticians suggestion to try yoga thinking it was wonky or something and I had been doing something lie it all along….I just have better stretches to use for relaxing..thankyou!!

    Reply
  33. kerry Irving says:
    September 6, 2018 at 8:07 am

    Have you done any videos on sitting down yoga kati? I used to go to something called chair yoga

    Reply
  34. liane_right_now says:
    November 25, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    Landline, lol

    Reply

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