I missed January

Sorry to miss out on the starting month of 2010 with a post. Here's a quickie: Set your 'stretch' for the day by getting out of bed and first thing, move slowly into a downward dog. Use a full minute to ease into a stretch in the hamstrings to set for the rest of the day. Look at this as giving your hamstrings a fighting chance; a starting point of length rather than short from slumber. We are relatively still for our hours of sleep, and tend to wake up stiff from no movement (not a surprise). If you don't have a wake-up-yoga-practice, I offer you this Minute of Down Dog to set your stretch for the day. Shoulders and torso will appreciate it as well. The second immediate thing...scrape your tongue! (this will be continued in an Ayurveda post later on :)