Fitness in Four: Yoga poses you can do to stretch and improve your balance,

In today's <i>Fitness in Four</i>&nbsp;segment, Ingrid Gabor, lead instructor of YogaSix, shows us some yoga poses we can do at home to get a stretch and improve our balance in less than four minutes

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Fitness in Four: Yoga

Well, I'm a beginner. So I want you to show me some moves. Start off with something easy. What's the easy move you guys would do in class? Sure, good. Let's get started. So, stand naturally, ground your ground, your feet into the floor and then inhale, lift your arms up overhead, press your hands together. Exhale, bend over to the right. Uh Take a big breath in big breath out. Inhale, come back to center. Lift up through the hips as tall as you can. Exhale, bend over to the left, good big breath in and big breath out. Inhale. Come back to center, nice and tall and then exhale, bring your hands together at. So, ok, I felt like I got a good stretch. But other than that, what is yoga? What is good for? What does it do for your body? It really helps to reduce stress. So it connects you with your breath. You're really conscious of your breath as you're doing this. Yeah. So you got a little bit of movement that maybe a little bit harder, moderate move. What would you say that? Sure. Step your feet hips with distance apart. Inhale, lift your arms up and then exhale, sink down and back. Like you're sitting back in the chair. This is hard. My hands are, can't get where yours are, is it ok if I'm like here? Because it's hard to get my hands straight up like that. Yeah, we have different options. So you can bring your hands out in front of you or you can bring your hands together at center. Oh, I like that. Ok. That's good. Ok. So we're just sitting in a chair. And what is this doing for us? Take a big breath in. Exhale. Sink down a little lower. God. It's strengthening your whole body. One more big breath in exhale, sink down. I feel my legs, my arms, my core, my back, everything working here. We're warming up the whole body so you can really get in a full workout doing something like this, but also relaxing at the same time. So full body experience before we go, give me something hard, something difficult. Advanced level. What you got? All right. Great. So this is a little harder if you're new to balance. So let's root into the right foot and then bring the sole of your left foot either to your ankle, calf or upper thigh if you're up for the gym. Oh, ok. Let me fix my pants. Ok. Upper thigh. There we go. Ok. Oh. Oh, I might have to hold you, Ingrid. Ok. I've got it. I've got it. Ok. Now, what do I do? Go ahead. Find your balance, bring your hands together at center of them. Ok. You're doing great. Find something on the floor to focus on for balance. I got it. I got it. Ok. Take a big breath and big breath out. Ok. Well, I, I almost the floor is slippery. That's why I felt. Yes, it's all about the slippery floor. So it's probably best if you take your socks off when you're doing this, right. My feet are ugly. So I'm gonna leave them on. But thank you so much Ingrid and Jovi Six for showing me some moves. Ok, I'm gonna stick with this easy one. I'm just gonna breathe it out. Ok.