Do you have thyroid imbalance? Try this 10 minute routine to stretch your thyroid area in your neck. These stretching yoga exercises will help open the thyroid and move blockages that may be there.
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Hello earth citizens. In this video I will do a 10-minute routine for your thyroids. Your thyroids
are a butterfly-shaped gland here that regulate metabolism and also produce hormones that tell
your body to do certain things. So I know a lot of people have thyroid imbalance,
hormonal imbalance in their body, so these exercises are meant to help open this area
to get energy and blood circulating and flowing in your thyroid gland neck area. All right so
first bring your feet shoulder width apart, bring your arms in front of your chest crossed,
so not touching, not like this, floating but crossed here. Inhale and extend your left hand
forward and right hand back. Look back in your right hand and exhale.
Feel the stretch right here, right here in your throat area.
Okay bring it back, inhale and now switch. Right arm goes forward,
left hand goes back. Exhale, look at your left hand.
Feel the stretch in this area here.
Let's do two more times. Inhale, exhale, look back, feel the stretch.
Inhale, exhale, look back.
Inhale, return.
Great, next bring your feet together, clasp your hands, inhale, stretch up.
Look at your hand, exhale. So now here you want to bring your teeth together, so not like this.
When you bring your teeth together you will feel a stretch on the front side of your throat.
That stretch is the important part, okay? So look up at your palm, stretch here,
bring your teeth together. Can you feel the stretch here? Good, inhale again, exhale, return.
So it's really important how you place your jaw and teeth and chin at that point. When you just
look up and your jaws drop, you don't feel the stretch here. The stretch here is the important
thing. Okay, let's try it again. Inhale, exhale.
Bring your teeth together, feel the stretch in your neck, your thyroids are opening. Breathe in,
exhale, return. Okay, one more time. Same thing, clasp your hands, stretch up.
Look at your hand, feel the stretch in your neck, exhale, return.
Great job. So now we're going to keep the same posture but we're going to go
downwards this time. Okay, so clasp your hands, inhale, exhale, bring it down.
If you can touch the floor, that's great. If not, as best as you can,
feel your lower back and legs. Bounce here for ten, one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten. Now tilt it to the left side. Bounce here, one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Now right side, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten. Bring it back to center, breathe in, drop your hands,
bend your knees, roll your spine up. As you exhale, let's do that one again.
So really feel the back side stretching as you exhale. All right, breathe in,
exhale down, just the front side. Look at your palms, your hands.
Stay here for five, four, three, two, one. Inhale,
unclasp your hands, bend your knees, gently roll your spine up.
Great job. Legs shoulder-width apart again, bend your knees slightly,
and this time you're going to inhale as you bring your palms up. So your palms are facing each other.
Inhale as you bring your palms up like this, and look up at the ceiling here to feel the
stretch on the front side of your neck, your thyroid. Hold it here. Exhale, come down.
Let's do two more times. So same thing, you want to touch your teeth slightly together,
not clamping down on your jaw. Touch your teeth slightly together so you feel a stretch in your
neck. All right, two more times. Bend your knees, breathe in, exhale. One more time, breathe in,
exhale. Great job. Now tilt your body to the right side so that your right leg is forward
and your left leg is back. Use this hand to support you from the back, this hand to support
you from the front. So you're going to inhale as you bend your knee and tilt your body to the back
side. Here you will feel a nice deep stretch here, okay? All right, so breathe in, exhale.
And here, like the other exercises, you want to touch your teeth slightly together, okay?
Two more times, inhale, exhale. One more time, inhale, exhale. Now switch. Other way,
left leg forward, right leg back. Same thing, hold right arm, right leg for support,
left arm, left leg. You want to get a nice stretch this way. All right, inhale,
exhale. Two more times, inhale, exhale. One more time, inhale, exhale. Great job.
Bring your legs together. Now this time it's very simple. I'll show you from the side view. So here
you're just going to leave your arms by your side, breathe in as you stretch your neck up,
and then from here you're going to do this with your mouth.
So while you're stretched up here, your neck muscles stretch as you move your jaw,
like this, okay? All right, so let's do it 10 times. As you stretch up like this, opening your
jaw 10 times. Open, close, open, close, open, close, feeling the stretch on the front side
of your neck, okay? I'll show you from the side view so you can see a little bit better. Breathe
in, exhale, open and close, and return. So you do it 10 times. It's hard for me to count as I open
and stretch at the same time, so I'll leave the counting up to you, okay? 10 times, let's do it
one more set, one more set of 10. So when you breathe in, stretch, and then from there, open,
close, open, close, feeling the stretch 10 times. All right, breathe in, exhale, open, close,
hold your teeth together, last stretch. Feel it right here, hold your teeth together
without clamping down, hold it here for five, four, three, two, one, return.
How do you feel? Can you feel opening in your neck, especially the front side of your neck
where your thyroid gland is? All of these exercises are designed to help open up blockage here,
so that energy can flow better in your thyroid. You did a great job. These exercises were taken
from Meridian Exercises for Self-Healing by Ilchi Lee. I'll drop a link in the description below on
how you can get a copy today. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class,
please visit a local Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you.
