Following meditation, breathing exercises, and eye exercises, a yoga session then starts to accelerate into yoga warm ups or stretches. These usually involve the stretching or lubrication of the neck, shoulders, wrists, knees, ankles, and toes.

After eye exercises, we proceed to exercises that still maintain the Siddhasana or Accomplished Pose. An exercise that I do even when I am not in my yoga session is the neck roll. When I feel tension on my neck or shoulders, I do this while on my desk. As a matter of fact, even before I practiced yoga, it has been a habit that I do. I am sure many people do it also. I believe it’s an instinctive exercise that everyone does when they feel any neck discomfort.

While still relaxed in the Siddhasana, we close our eyes and continue breathing properly. Then we start by lowering our neck, touching the chin to the chest. We rotate our neck slowly clockwise, moving toward the position where we touch our right ear to the right shoulder, then move our head in a position where we drop our head back, then to the position where the left ear touches the left shoulder, and back to the position where our chin is touching the chest. Remember to do this slowly while still breathing in a relaxed manner. We usually do 2 rotations clockwise then proceed doing another 2 rotations in the opposite direction or counterclockwise.

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