Clearly a yoga hybrid, as it mixes traditional abdominal toning with fast paced yoga poses and balance moves. I attempted this one after my steady state run to "relax" and was pleasantly surprised by how hard I was working. The workout is broken down into 3 individual chapters that you can choose to do all at once or choose any one your prefer based on your preference for the moment.
Chapter 1 starts quickly with a side reach, plie, side reach, lunge sequence. Warrior 1 into Warrior 2, then into Reverse Warrior. Side angle stretch follows. Next you'll move into a wide legged forward bend, diving forward and then you'll arch your back on the way up. You'll repeat this 3 times and the 4th time you'll round your back on the way up. You'll repeat this "vinyasa" twice before repeating this sequence to opposite side. The last part is a flowing arms motion side to side, varying the tempo (like your pushing through water) with sunburst arms. You'll end with a balancing pose. You'll grab the right ankle with the right hand, tuck your pelvis and drop your body forward. A nice lunge/hamstring follows. Chair pose is done between sides. Down dog, plank, lower down slowly, up dog, push back again into down dog--repeat for several rounds. Hold plank. Side plank follows. Down dog, then repeat plank sequence. Down dog into child's pose. From child's pose, you'll articulate a rolling motion, diving your body forward and then rolling back. On your knees, you'll perform a modified camel with one arm supporting back. Following camel, you'll raise both arms overhead and gently lower yourself to the side, stretching your side body (repeating both sides).
Chapter 2 begins on hands and knees and moves to plank position. Tracie leads you through a sequence of knee drops, out/out, in/in feet (or hands). Tough! On the belly with arms in T, you'll lift all the body off floor. Various positions of these back body stretches are shown. One more set of the plank sequence before moving onto a thigh burner--on your knees, you'll lean your body back and fully stretch the entire upper leg area. Cat/cow follows. Triangle right leg out to side and reach over to stretch. Repeat with left leg. Traditional abs are next. Toes on floor, bring knees up, then lift toes to ceiling. Bicycles follow. Reverse curls are next. The next move is tough--hands behind head, you'll bring knees in, then push legs straight out from body and then open legs in a wide V, bring them together and back in. You'll repeat the first 2 ab moves again and then relax with bridge pose. The next sequence of ab exercises target the obliques. Tracie performs several rounds of twisting crunches. Stretch into a short, but nice, hip stretch. A nice full body stretch concludes this segment.
Chapter 3 is all about balance. Tracie starts with the balance work and finishes with a few floor stretches to end the session. Standing with arms extended in front of you, you'll rise up on your toes and then sink down. Hold. This segment was definitely a challenge for me! Next is a 1 legged balance move. On one leg, you'll lift the opposite leg and interlace the hands and hinge the body forward, lowering it over the balancing leg. Side stretch. The next move you'll hold one leg and balance on the other. You'll then extend the leg you are holding for an additional balance option. Then you'll put that foot on top of the other thigh, all while balancing and then bend and touch the floor. A nice back stretch follows. Repeat other side. The next balance move involves a one legged rotation with airplane arms. Following you'll rise up on the toes, overhead and then twist the body to the right. Repeat to other side. Forward fold to stretch hamstrings and forward bend to stretch the back. Move to floor. Position legs into a wide straddle. This stretches the legs and groin effectively. Chest stretch. A nice twist move to each side and then finish with one final forward seated fold.
This was deceptively hard.....yoga purists may want to try it for diversity and yoga beginners may want some understanding of basic yoga poses before jumping right into the workout as Tracie goes quite fast through the 1st chapter which contains most of the yoga poses.

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