will come back once again to yoga express it's all about moving the body to still the mind even though our program is titled it has the word express at the end of it there is nothing express about the way we stretch on air right here the only thing that's express is the kind of feeling of wellness of wellbeing that you feel in a very short time in about twenty to twenty four minutes we get a full studio melissa and nicole welcome to audience invisible audience i hope you enjoy the show viewers out there make sure you stay in touch with our guest teaches melissa melissa has been with us in the quite a few episodes before now we slowly phasing into yoga moves that go well with individual constitutions and with the seasons because both melissa and i did the same i read the program downtown in new york city and according to my teleprompter here we have four minutes left i believe that's from the last eight but that's ok melissa just to recap as a quick recap the last time we were here on the show you took me through several day gentle stretches and you were actually moving into the seasonal aspect of yoga stretching so can you touch a little more  environment we're all made up of the same stuff even scientists tell us to every every bit of matter that's out there came from a star we're all made of the same gross stuff all the elements and everything that's out there in the universe is also inside of us we have all the germ so when we get sick it's actually no immunity level is what makes the germs start acting up is that what makes us ill that can there can be many factors that go into that right and in our you know the earth air fire water and easter they are they make up our constitution they show they present themselves and tabel is a way in our temperament in our body frame our skin tone they present themselves in many different ways and so when we get sick that just kind of means that our our elements are a bit out of now and there's a lot of us hey guys that's that's exactly the reason why you should contact melissa you have a senses that we can use to access them right we have our sense of sight smell touch taste and hearing and so using all of the senses we can help to rebalance that mix in our bodies and it's a beautiful practice i i think it's important to mention too we're not trying to get each element the same amount we're trying to come to our own blueprint and so just getting back to our natural state that is a sense about switch trying to achieve yes ok so it's not it's  our they did we had actually have those five elements represented in our five fingers and hand and good use as a practice we can use as kind of a gateway to help access those elements within our body and restore some balance so my teacher the way it was taught to me is  for our fingers we have the element of ether which is kind of the space cell ok and the thumb air fire water and earth right and so when we join these together with the ether which is kind of holding the space for each of these other elements that can access it if we you know we talk on the body level too i know when i broke my hand a few years ago and i had to do that occupational therapy and you're trying to remove your hand  you really notice the hand of soda dextrous this is our most very intricate area of our body right and so what we connect these fingers were also accessing different pathways of muscles and nerves in the body to oh wow i never knew that yeah you might even see it too and i've got a brace on here but we've got all these little tendons you'll notice that they move to issue yeah i do see that i actually see the snow moving and then the little and the up the little vessels there this oh yeah so we've got our course i'll switch my legs too and so i said to do so the first major i wanted to introduce the ski on the truck we're bringing together the pointer finger in the thumb on the other fingers can just kind of stay relaxed and outstretched you can use the moochers resting on the legs or even if you're taking another meditative posture laying down right this is easy to access you're on the subway if you're in bed if you're sitting and holed up in a hospital you can do these so the first one here again measure we're going to bring the thumb in the pointer finger together and this is bringing together the elements of air in there and oftentimes these elements when they're out of balance in the body can bring up some anxiety a lot of bit more that helps us to have more patience with ourselves and with others and calm down that fire element out of balance and so we'll take that here this is our next drink and you can close one more in ha fluidity creativity flexibility we can counterbalance that kind of being a little wishy washy so to speak read with some confidence that's our word in our  very subtle practice right so you might not feel much at all in the beginning but actually yes eventually i should feel confident yet that the ok yes for sure and a lot of that is is embodying that feeling in your when our earth is out of balance sometimes that can make us feel a little far just maybe even a little depressed right where just very low energy this is often something in winter to bringing in the seasons in argentina the rare  element gets kicked up a little bit so to help balance that we're bringing the ether we're holding the space for that element and this can help us balance out in our bodies and i like to think of the word for this courage for connecting to our own internal energy and our own intuition and when we have courage where we know that what we're doing is connected to what feels good in what feels right right so we'll take this move your last one closely i and help her exhale intuition to the individual too so these are you know the elements for accessing a lot of those those feelings the calm compassion confidence and courage that i invite you to at and help the shoulders an axe held down the back two more times with your own  right hand will also come behind that may be the fingertips night which otherwise without a shirt to hold on to to whatever works for you so one side i'm not able to meet my fingers can i use a belt and install something totally to connect at least the hands back down and practice that favre transition we can bring the hands to walk in front of you the legs are crossed and see if you can bring your body weight into the hands to help bring the knees down to the mat and then uncrossed the ankles and the legs coming into tabletop you've got it to sit i always worry that i get stuff oh we'll walk our fingertips over toward the right side and extending the left arm even just a little bit further out toward the right to help encourage a side stretch up that's a i love the fingertips back to center and then over to the opposite side we're going to tuck the back toes behind this extending the leg out stretching out through the hamstring walking the fingertips forward or if you'd like to stretch the shoulders a little bit more but you to interlace the fingers behind website stay in touch with melissa there lots of episodes will be coming back on so you can stretch with her right here by the way it's free and you are watching yoga express you