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LaGrange Yoga offers free at-home workouts

As we enter into the second month of our COVID-19 gym shutdown, we at LaGrange Yoga are continuing to do our best to bring each of you videos and FB Live Classes. We know it’s not the same as being in the gym/studio with everyone – because after all, working out with friends is part of the experience – but we also know this will not last forever. 

This week, two more FREE videos are available for you to use in your home.
Also, please be sure to subscribe to my YouTube Channel (Jeannette Benjamin – remember two Ns in Jeannette).
This way you will receive a notification when a new video is posted!

 

YOGA FOR IMMUNITY – https://youtu.be/jiwsQevBrGQ

Need: Small Couch Pillow 

This series of poses is designed to activate the lymphatic system. Lymph is a fluid that flows through the body helping to detox and build up immunity. It travels via pathways, similar to our blood traveling through our veins. However, the lymphatic system has no pumping mechanism, like blood which has the heart. So it is dependent upon the body’s physical movement. 
Poses in this series will all be familiar to you if you regularly practice yoga with me. Focus will be on the neck, across the chest, into the inner arms/armpits, side body and legs, all areas where lymph flows. There are a lot of side bends and lunges as well as a few restful poses. Ruby (the wonder dog and LaGrange Yoga mascot now) does make a brief cameo near the end.
(I apologize that the lighting isn’t perfect and that my head isn’t always in the screen! But again, this video is a gift to you. I am doing the best that I can and I hope that you are too!)

SPARTACUS WORKOUT-  https://youtu.be/Esp9zaurhRQ

Need: Light Weights, Water (and maybe some good music)

10 exercises – do all 10, repeat 2 more times
Goal: Do as many as you can in 30 seconds, followed by 20 second break

1 – Goblet Squat
2 – Mountain Climber
3 – Single Arm Dumbbell Swing
4 – T-Pushup
5 – Split Jump
6 – Dumbbell Row
7 – Dumbbell Side Lunge and Touch
8 – Pushup Row
9 – Dumbbell Lunge and Rotation
10 – Dumbbell Push Press WooHoo
1 minute break, repeat two more times!
Remember: With this and any exercise, check with your doctor to ensure it is safe for you to do. Please note that you are voluntarily participating in these classes conducted by Jeannette and/or Scott Benjamin and are waiving any legal rights, including the rights to sue for any physical, mental, material, tangible or intangible, loss or damages that happen during your participation in any of these videos.
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Hello my people!
Prior to Ohio Gov. DeWine giving the extended orders to stay put until May 1, we were working on opportunities for YOU to JOIN US – Your “favorite” LaGrange Yoga instructors for Yoga, Meditation, Zumba, Fitness and Strength Training!
Turns out, we had a feeling we’d be staying home longer than originally planned. That is why we are relying on technology to bring OUR classes into YOUR house!

For me, technology is like learning a foreign language. However, I did figure out how to make YouTube videos. These videos are pretty raw – done as gifts for you! There is no special lighting, editing, wardrobe, hair or make up. You get me as I am! These products are not perfect by any means, but they will do! I have a couple yoga classes on there, a kick boxing class, a mindfulness meditation and some Taekwondo stuff for my Tiger Matial Arts kiddos. The YouTube videos are fun because you can do them whenever you want and more than once. Heck, you can even download the class to your device!

Here are the virtual ways to you can workout with us:

Jeannette Benjamin: Jeannette has created her own YouTube Channel. You can SUBSCRIBE to this channel and then will get notices when a new workout/yoga video is posted. Click HERE for the direct link to my YouTube Channel!

Annette Anost: Annette is bringing her ZUMBA classes to her students via ZOOM! Need to know how to get connected using ZOOM? Click Virtual Classes with Annette (REVISED) for step-by-step directions!

Heather Sherill: Heather is offering LIVE meditation classes. Click HERE for more information on ways to retain your ZEN during these trying times.

Anyone else starting to go a little batty living life via “Shelter-in-Place?”
I know I am!
The first week, I was pumped, thinking how much time I’d have to myself, but now, I am kinda missing all of my yogi students! Plus, I miss my studio! Doing yoga at home has always been my “fall-back-on-plan” so today I give you: Hatha at Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFavTTuFdNM&feature=share

And while we are to remain “Shelter-in-Place” we can absolutely GET OUTSIDE! Participating in any form of outdoor activity is so good for us now. What about kicking a kickball around the yard with your kids? Soccer ball? Bringing out the t-ball set stashed away in your garage? Putting air in those bike tires, playing catch in the yard or even side-walk chalking!
And of course, walking, running or jogging is good too!
But what about those impending rainy days? 

When my kiddos were little, I used rainy days as the perfect opportunity to show them how to cook and do laundry. (Laundry may not SOUND fun at all, but one day they will thank you for teaching them to separate the loads!). Plus, cooking allows for them to use math (cups, teaspoons, tablespoons) and laundry … well, how about learning organizational skills?

Our lives may have been flipped-turned-upside-down, but maybe, just maybe something POSITIVE will come out of this situation.
Love to all,
Jeannette

Hello everyone! As I was talking to my daughter a few days ago, she shared with me a concern of hers — she loves her long hair, but right now, in the medical field, it’s getting a bit difficult to keep it out of her way during her work day – and every day she has to wear a scrub cap to keep her hair back (you know, the medical world is forever changing now with COVID-19 and everyone has to be safe – and wants to be kept safe at that).

After some researching, she found a remedy, but with lack of time, she has not been able to secure one of these “fancy” scrub caps with ponytail holders – but she is doing just fine figuring out other ways to keep her hair back (oh how Bre loves her long hair!). The remedy? A scrub cap with ponytail “holder.” So, if anyone wants something to do and has the know-how around a sewing machine, here is another way you can help those in the medical field:

Scrub-Cap-with-Ponytail-Written-Instructions

In recent weeks I have posted various at-home workout videos via FB and the weekly MailChimp Newsletter. BUT, in case you have not seen them, here are a few I made several weeks ago. 

Stay tuned to the website for additional videos this week!

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Like you, I still need to move and breathe, do yoga and exercise. I have made a couple of videos as gifts to you…YOU HAVE NO IDEA what a big deal it is for me to have made these videos. I had to learn new skills. I had to trust in the process. I had to figure out technological things.

My intention for you is that you stay safe, that you continue to move and breathe, that you can afford to be out of work, if that is the case for you. I hope that you can use this break from the world to reconnect with yourselves, your kids, your significant others and nature (go for a walk). I am trusting in the process and I look forward to reopening the gym and seeing you all in class. If you are in a position where you are not getting a break from work or the world, THANK YOU for doing what you have to do. Be sure to take some time for yourself. Simple yoga breathing can do wonders!  Mindfully breathe, maybe even while you drive. Deep breath in, long breath out! This pattern of mindful breathing can take our central nervous system from a state of Fight and Flight to one of Rest and Restore.

In the meantime, here are the links to the videos. As in all physical practices, be sure only do what you can. Don’t do anything if you experience pain or feel extreme discomfort. Be gentle with yourselves, especially if you haven’t practiced or worked out in a while. These videos are not by any means professional products…you are getting me…honest, raw and uncensored…no editing…nothing fancy…just like in class!  Do them with an open mind, expecting nothing and noticing what you experience.  If you do the Kick Boxing video, it can be nice on the body to do the Gentle Yoga video right after. Hopefully I can add a Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep meditation) and Breathing Meditation next!

LINKS
Yoga for Anxiety:
https://youtu.be/7tnG3_fy6aM

Kick-Boxing:
https://youtu.be/CYBy3QTWCqQ .

Gentle Yoga:
https://youtu.be/o2QJ15E7K5g