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Can you strike the Hummingbird pose?

  • June 28, 2018
Client Spotlight: Yogini Emmanuelle Royer, PUR YOGA founder


Last week, the world celebrated Yoga Day. Among the many benefits of yoga are improved flexibility, stress relief and a good old workout.

To celebrate this day, we chat with our client and founder of PUR YOGA (France), Yogini Emmanuelle Royer about attempting the hummingbird yoga pose and why she loves the reusable cotton tote bag for her yoga business.

Can you teach us the ‘Hummingbird’ Yoga Pose?

Yogini Emmanuelle: The hummingbird pose is also known as the Grasshopper pose or Parsva Bhuja Dandasana in Sanskrit. It is a very difficult yoga pose. What makes it so is that it combines a number of elements that are very challenging in their own right. You have to be a confident arm balancer; flexibility in both the hips and hamstrings are also necessary to get your legs into position.

The ‘Hummingbird’ yoga pose Image via POPSUGAR Photography/ Jenny Sugar

Here is a step by step guide:

  1. Start in the Half Lord of the Fishes Pose variation.
  2. Sit on the floor with your legs straight out in front of you, buttocks supported on a folded blanket if you need more help shifting your pelvis forward and sitting up tall.
  3. Bend your left knee and slide your left foot close to your left buttock. Then bring the ankle of your right foot onto your left thigh.
  4. Exhale to twist to your left.
  5. Then place your hands on the floor, shoulder-width apart and beside your left hip.
  6. Start to shift your weight into your hands, lifting your legs up so that the sole of your left foot is flat on the floor and the sole of your right foot is on top of your right upper arm. Place the right foot as high up on the right arm as you can.
  7. Slowly start to lean forward, shifting more weight into your hands.
  8. Lift your hips and find a 45-degree angle with your arms.
  9. Press your right foot down into your right tricep as you lift the left leg and extend it to the right.
  10. Keep your left hip off your left elbow from the very beginning, supporting yourself with your core instead.
  11. Hold for 5 breaths, or as long as you can, before switching sides.

Note for Beginers: There’s not really a beginner’s version, but side crow is a good preparatory pose. It gives you the feeling of how much you have to twist your torso and how far forward you need to tip in order to get your feet off the ground.

How does the cotton tote bag benefit your business?

The Hummingbag x PUR YOGA cotton tote bag – a durable, eco-friendly, and stylish way to promote your brand
  1. Comfortable and attractive –  These bags can be customized from a variety of shapes, colors and sizes. I could match PUR YOGA’s colors and branding to provide our clients with a bag that they genuinely want to carry around. Some great features of the cotton tote bag are that they are durable, roomy and can be folded easily. This means that our clients have a PUR YOGA bag ready to go whenever they need to head down to the supermarket or for a yoga class. They serve as great conversation starters and have helped spread awareness of the PUR YOGA brand.

    2. Eco-friendly way to connect with our clients –     It is important to show our clients that by trusting the PUR YOGA brand with their health and fitness journey, they are also supporting an ethical business that is interested in improving the environment. The cotton tote bag is an environmentally friendly promotional product that is also functional. We would like our clients to see and feel that they belong to a business that takes part in saving our environment as well as caring for their health and wellbeing.

Market your business the eco-concious way!

At Hummingbag, we are always excited to partner with businesses that wish to promote their customised branding needs across our entire range of quality, stylish reusable bags.

Keep up with the trend in promoting a green, zero-waste world – it’s a great way to encourage your clients to choose your business over another. Get in touch with us and let us know how we can help! https://hummingbag.com/contact/

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