5 easy yoga exercises

1. Start in the child's position

Get down on your knees, come back with your butt towards your heels and spread your knees to a comfortable position. Fold your upper body forward and stretch your arms out in front of you. Let the forehead rest against the mat. Stay here as you take a few deep breaths and land in the moment.

From here you can then, if you want, get on your hands and knees, put your toes in the mat, and rock back and forth with your upper body a little so that you come back with your butt against your knees and come up on your hands and knees and come forward with the weight on the arms a few times.

2. Wake up the body with cat/cow

Get on your hands and knees, so your hands are under your shoulders and your knees are under your hips.

Push off with your hands and round your back upwards, like a cat arching its back. Come in with your chin to your chest.

Then come down with your stomach and lift your chest and gaze upwards, so that you are swaying. Make sure your shoulders don't go up to your ears.

Then round your back upwards again and do the same movements a few more times.

3. Come up into downward dog

Come forward with your hands a little, put your toes into the mat and lift your hips up so you come up into downward dog, like an upside down V.

Push off with your hands towards the floor and let your heels strive towards or come down into the mat.
Feel free to stomp down with your heels for a while.
Stay here while you take a few deep breaths.

4. Stretch up and out

Come up to standing and bring your arms up to the ceiling, and stretch and get really tall.

Distribute the weight equally between your feet so you stand firmly, activate your core.
Let the shoulders come as far from the ears as possible. Turn your palms inwards, towards each other.
Take a few deep breaths here.

Stretch out to the sides

Keep the weight on both feet as you exhale and lean your upper body, still with your arms extended, to one side.
So you stretch out one side of the body.
Be sure to activate your torso when leaning over.
Breathe in and come back to center, then do the same in the other direction.
Just fold over as far as you can still breathe easily.
Repeat a couple more times on each side.

5. Find your balance in the tree

Stand firmly on both feet.

Lift one leg, bend it and place the foot on the inside of the other leg's thigh or calf.

Stretch and turn the knee of your bent leg to the side.

Put your palms together in front of your chest or stretch your arms up towards the ceiling.

Find your balance and keep your gaze a little ahead.

Balance here while taking a couple of deep breaths, then do the same with the other leg.