How you can Perform the Jack Knife in Bikram yoga

Jack Knife Prep Pilates Exercise.
http://www.yoopod.com has an amazing library of Yoga and Pilates classes and exercises. Join today get unlimited access to a wide range of top quality HD video classes and workouts with the world renowned teachers..
Start your 14 day free trial today at http://www.yoopod.com.
http://www.yoopod.com.
http://facebook.com/yoopod.
http://twitter.com/AmitYounger

Jackknife.
1 red 1 green

I love, love, love doing Jackknife on the #PilatesMat! It looks quite difficult and complicated and I’m not going to lie it is challenging and there is a bit to think about while doing it, but it’s not so different from the beginner and intermediate exercises you have been doing already. If you are doing the roll over and Double Straight Leg Stretch, you can start to add this in and when you’ve got the movements down begin challenging yourself with the precision and control that Jackknife requires. It will truly help you master the Corkscrew, High Scissors and High Bicycle..
https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/pilates-exercises/mat-exercises/mat-jackknife/.
Click the link above for additional tips on this #PilatesJackknife exercise..
CHECK OUT THESE OTHER #OnlinePilatesClasses EXERCISES:
• High Scissors on the Mat: https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/pilates-exercises/mat-exercises/mat-high-scissors/.
• High Bicycle on the Mat: https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/pilates-exercises/mat-exercises/mat-high-bicycle/.
• Roll Over on the Mat: https://onlinepilatesclasses.com/pilates-exercises/mat-exercises/mat-roll-over/.
Subscribe on YouTube for bi-weekly videos, or join on the email list for notifications: http://eepurl.com/cHaALv.
Lesley Logan is a PMA Certified Pilates Teacher who has been teaching for more than 10 years. After her initial 600 hours of training, she completed two additional masters programs. Lesley teaches in-person at her studio in Los Angeles and during her international workshops and Pilates retreats. Aside from her weekly online classes, she teaches private sessions via Skype..
Classes, Sessions, Retreats & Coaching.
• Online Mat Pilates Classes: https://onlinepilatesclasses.com.
• Online Private Pilates Sessions: https://lesleyloganpilates.com.
• Pilates Retreats: https://llpadventures.com.
• Pilates Business Coaching: https://profitablepilates.com.
• Profitable Pilates eBook: https://profitablepilates.com/product/profitable-pilates-ebook-english-version/.
Follow Lesley.
• https://www.instagram.com/lesley.logan.
• https://www.facebook.com/LesleyLoganPilates.
• https://www.instagram.com/ProfitablePilates.
• https://www.facebook.com/ProfitablePilates.
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjogqXLnfyhS5VlU4rdzlnQ.
LESLEY LOGAN is a PMA Certified Pilates Teacher and has been teaching Joseph Pilates Classical Method for more than 10 years..
After relocating to Los Angeles in 2007, Lesley completed her 600-hour Teacher Training program. Shortly after she began commuting to Colorado to work with The Pilates Center in Boulder, where she finished their Masters Pilates Program..
Her years of prior retail management allowed her to step into managing studios regionally for Equinox fitness clubs. She soon became a Lead Teacher Trainer and took dozens of apprentices through their program..
Before she finished her formal training with Jay Grimes in his program, The Work, Lesley was voted ‘Best Pilates in Los Angeles’ by Los Angles Magazine. She has been featured in Pilates Style Magazine and her classes and courses can be found on PilatesAnytime.com..
While traveling the world with her Pilates retreats and coaching workshops, Lesley offers weekly online mat pilates classes and teaching private sessions via Skype. When she is in Los Angeles you can find her teaching private clients at her studio in Westwood.

http://www.pilatesology.com Alisa Wyatt demonstrates the Jackknife exercise. This exercise is part of the Advanced mat series, and requires rolling the legs over the body, then straight up to the sky in a quick fluid movement. This video is from the Exercise Library of our new streaming Pilates website PILATESOLOGY. Thanks for watching!

JohnGareyTV.com presents the Move of the Day: Pilates Mat Jack Knife. This intermediate level move is really challenging and takes strength, spine flexibility, and lots of control. Master the Roll Over before attempting this more challenging exercise..
Try it! And please hit the Like button, Share it, and Subscribe to us. For much more visit http://www.johngareytv.com. Sign up for our 2-week Free Trial. Thanks for watching John Garey TV, your on-line Instructor resource for Fitness and Pilates Programming.

We have 2,500+ Pilates workouts here: https://goo.gl/BLiMFX.
Learn all the traditional Mat Pilates exercises for FREE! https://goo.gl/ZughPj.
Thank you for Liking & Subscribing! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pilatesanytime.
We offer YOGA workouts as well: https://goo.gl/1JEFsm.
Muscle Focus: Abdominals and hamstrings..
Objective: Hip extensor strength and spinal articulation..
Start Position: Lie on your back with arms by your sides, palms down, pressing the backs of the arms into the Mat, and legs together..
Movement: Extend both legs to the ceiling, draw the abdominals to spine, and roll over through the spine to take both legs almost parallel to the floor. While maintaining the lift of the pelvis and tailbone to the ceiling, reach both legs straight to the ceiling. Keeping the feet over hips as much as possible, articulate through the spine to roll down to the Mat, returning the legs to start position. Repeat..
Precautions: Avoid rolling onto the neck, keeping head and neck long and released on the Mat. You should be able to execute the Roll Over prior to attempting the Jack Knife. Avoid this exercise if you have neck and spine injuries..
To view full class go to: http://www.pilatesanytime.com/exercise_view.cfm?class_id=1459.
What is Pilates? http://www.pilatesanytime.com/workshop-view/2000/video/Pilates-What-is-Pilates-by-Alycea-Ungaro.
Want to try Yoga? https://goo.gl/qMbSJB.
*Connect with us!*.
Facebook: https://goo.gl/l8OtxJ.
Instagram: https://goo.gl/alHYnK.
Twitter: https://goo.gl/HvwoVI.
Pinterest: https://goo.gl/SB2O8c.
Blog: https://goo.gl/yO3l2j.
We also have an iOS app: https://goo.gl/p0FZlj.
Got a Roku? We’re on there too: https://goo.gl/BtxxLf

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21E032C7A15912CA.
Watch more How to Do Pilates videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/505915-How-to-Do-the-Jackknife-Pilates-Workout.
Coming from Neck Pull, we have Jack Knife. So Jack Knife is the most difficult of all of the intermediate exercises. And if you have any kind of neck issue, any kind of lower back issue, you really ought not to do this exercise, or start with it in a modified way, which I’ll show you..
It is an over the head position, so your core really needs to be strong, and your legs really do need to have, you know, a pretty good range of flexibility. If your knees are really bent, and you feel like you have to hoist yourself up over head. Remember, if there’s no control, there’s probably no place for that exercise for you yet..
So in Jack Knife, you’ll bend your knees toward your chest. Extend your legs out to 45 degrees with the heels together, the toes apart..
Inhale to prepare, then exhale. Bring your legs up overhead, so that the heels are right in line with the eyes, and a nice high angle here..
Breath in, then breathe out, and articulate your back into the mat, then lower your feet back to 45. And let’s see that again. Take an inhale, exhale, lift the hips, and lift your legs up overhead, like you’re flipping up a knife..
Balance between the shoulder blades, not on the neck. Inhale, exhale, articulate the spine down toward the mat, and return the legs. One last time in the ideal. Inhale, exhale as you go up, breathe in, breathe out, and slowly control the spine back to the mat, keeping the toes over the eyes. Then bend your knees in towards your chest..
So that’s the full deal. That’s the ideal. So to prepare this exercise or to modify it, extend your legs to 45 degrees. Inhale, then exhale, bring your legs overhead, but bring them parallel to the mat..
So in this position, you’ll be better able to find your point of balance here between your shoulder blades, rather than over on your neck. If you can’t really breathe, if you feel like you can’t turn your head from side to side, your legs are probably too far over..
Then, you’ll lift the legs up to 45 degrees while trying to keep these hips in place. Then lower the legs back to over the head, 90 degrees, and then exhale as you lower the spine down towards the mat, and return the legs out to 45..
Again, take an inhale, exhale, lift the hips up over head, hold it here, inhale, lift the legs up. Stretch the inner thighs, feel them wrap together, exhale, lower the legs back overhead, and continue to roll down through the spine. Then bend your knees in towards your chest, and that’s the Jack Knife.