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After canning 9 more pints of salsa on Friday night and 15 more pints of salsa, sauce, and jams today, I’m recovering with yoga.  The following sequence rights the wrists (chopping, mashing, tightening lids),  softens the shoulders and neck (lifting heavy pots, scrubbing said pots), gently eases the low back and hips (standing for hours on hard surfaces), and unwinds the core (hunching over the counter and sink).

Yoga for Canning and Preserving

1. Sukhasana, neck rolls
2. Nadi Shodhana (balancing breath)
3. Balasana (child’s pose)
4. lateral stretch, spider crawl one hand forward at a time
5. Cakravakasana (child’s pose to all fours flow)
6. Cat and Cow flow, turn fingers to point towards knees
7. Thread the needle
8. Adho Mukha Svanasana (downward facing dog)
9. Uttanasana (standing forward bend) to Ardha Uttanasana (standing half forward bend), breath into shoulder and low back awareness REPEAT x 3
10. Tadasana (mountain pose)
11. Side Moons (standing side bends)
12. Padahastasana (forward bend hand to feet pose)
13. Adho Mukha Svanasana
14. Round forward to plank (knees or toes) slowly, one vertebrae at a time…pull back to Adho Mukha Svanasana REPEAT x 4
15. Lift right leg, bend knee, open hip, roll ankle, and spread toes
16. Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana (half pigeon), optional thread the needle/twist
17. Adho Mukha Svanasana, REPEAT from 12, opposite leg
18. Vajrasana with Garuda Hastasana (thunderbolt pose with eagle pose arms)
19. Supta Virasana (reclining hero pose)
20. Dandasana (staff pose)
21. Pascimottanasana (seated forward bend)
22. Bharadvaja’s Twist (seated twist, both sides)
23. Ananda Balasana (happy baby pose)
24. Savasana
25. hot bath, lavendar candle, Streams in the Desert