Why sun salutations are my go-to warm-up.

Yoga has many benefits, as some of you probably discovered yourselves. It is a great way to take some time for yourself, find both mental and physical balance, focus on your breathing and move your whole body. Some of the moves could however benefit us also outside your yoga practice. Sun salutations are a great example, you can use these to stretch in the morning, take a bit of relaxation or as your perfect warm-up before any work-out. They are great for improving your posture and at the same time get all your muscles warm and ready to begin. Youtube will give you many examples to follow step-by-step.

Make sure to take a few breaths in every movement and use your inhales and exhales to move from one to another in a gentle flow. As a starting point you can add some cat-cow movement to start focus on your breath, then go into the sun salutations for 3 or 4 rounds. If you are limited on time you can start with sun salutations A, however sun salutations B will give you more all-round movement. Engage your core throughout the entire flow.

Enjoy!