Full body stretching routine | Simple stretches for every day | The Art of handbalancing

[@annacieplinska8023]

Thank you, that's was great!

[@chrismuller3778]

Hey Natalie, thank you for your wonderful videos. I began training for handstand a few months ago and am doing a lot of stretch, yoga etc. Your video is really well thought out - I love it

[@NatalieReckert]

Thank you :) all the best for your training!

[@perfectblue8443]

I just love your channel

[@emmanuellacour1486]

Thanks a lot for all your videos. They are full of really good advices, specifically for handstanders, with care of body health. It helps me a lot, especially when I cannot unfortunatly train at circus because circus school are closed since months in France :( I have one question about the stretch of "leggs?" against the wall. Where should I feel the stretch? In back of the rear leg?

[@NatalieReckert]

Hello and thank you for your lovely words. You should feel that stretch where your hamstrings meet your hips. Push your sit bones back further and straighten your back more and you will feel the stretch!

[@jeremiah7176]

Hi Natalie. I’m so impressed by your hand-balancing expertise! I wish I had found your channel when I first started trying to learn the handstand. Better late than never. I have a question. Do you think it’s possible to compensate for insufficiently open shoulders by bending your arms? I realize that most people compensate by doing a banana handstand but my back is too inflexible to do that. I also know that you’re supposed to keep your arms straight with elbows locked but I’ve noticed that when I sometimes manage to keep my balance for 5-10 seconds, it’s usually when I’ve bent my arms. Does this make sense?🙃

[@clray123]

try one of those massage guns on your shoulders/back... based on my experience you should see a big difference within 1 month of daily massage

[@NatalieReckert]

Hiya, like clray says, soft tissue work can be very useful! It depends what kind of handstand you want and where you want to go with it. In modern gymnastics and circus a very straight open shoulder handstand shape is taught but you will see pictures of old acrobats doing the whole thing with bent arms. At the end of the day you pick your style. Great if you can hold it like that. If you want to work further, learn a press or a one arm handstand, then it makes sense to learn how to open the shoulders fully, for which I recommend mobility exercises for the shoulders, many shoulder stretches and thoracic spine mobility: Shoulder mobility: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maTHlqd3n6qoo9U Thoracic spine mobility kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2Smd3iDr690qtE

[@lamomm8066]

Hey natalie i just got to day 23 of handstand in 30 day and i have pain in my tight can i take a rest until recovery for. a week??

[@NatalieReckert]

Yes absolutely! Rest until it is better and if it does not get better, go to see a doctor!