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Hello, dear friends, Welcome to Yoga with Adriene!
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I'm Adriene, this is sweet Benji.
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And today we have a Ten Minute Yoga for Tight Hamstrings.
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So we're going to jump right in.
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Come on down to the ground.
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Find yourself a seat.
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And you can sit up on a blanket or a block or some towels.
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Get a little lift in the hips if that helps you begin in this position.
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We'll sit up nice and tall, and although we are focusing on tight hamstrings today, we always take a second to tune in and really approach this time as valuable, beneficial time to reconnect with ourselves.
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Taking a holistic approach, considering the whole body, all parts of the self.
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So let's begin by softening our gaze or closing down the eyes just for a moment.
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Allow your shoulders to relax and allow yourself to be here for this, these ten minutes.
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It's going to go by quick.
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So give yourself whatever permission you may need to just be present for this short session.
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Good. We've arrived.
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Take a deep breath in through the nose.
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And out through the nose or mouth.
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And one more time.
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In through the nose.
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And as you exhale out through the nose or mouth, see if you can relax your shoulders.
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Drop them down away from your ears.
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Maybe just a little bit more.
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Beautiful. On your next breath, let's use that inhalation to come out of our seat and move to a tabletop position.
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Continue to breathe here with as much awareness as you can muster.
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And really, that just means paying attention to the breath, not...
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not allowing it to just go on automatic.
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From your tabletop position.
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We'll move with the breath.
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Inhale to drop the belly, open the chest, look forward.
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Exhale to round through the spine, chin to chest.
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Really finding this big stretch in the low back one more time.
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Inhale drop the belly.
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Open the chest.
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Exhale round through the spine.
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Feel this stretch in the back body.
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Draw your navel up to your spine.
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Nice. Now inhale back to tabletop position.
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Extend just your right leg out.
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Curl your right toes under.
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Extend through your right heel.
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So you're really feeling that stretch in the Achilles in the ankle, the calf back of the knee and the hamstring.
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And then with an awareness of the crown of your head reaching forward so the head's not just dropped here, begin to rock a little front and back.
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Peek at me anytime if you need to.
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Nice. And then we'll take that right foot and step it all the way up to the top of our mat.
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Feel free to use your right hand to help guide it up, and we'll come into a low lunge here by walking the left knee back just a bit and aiming to get that front knee stacked over the front ankle.
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Inhale to look forward.
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Exhale. Stay here and relax the shoulders.
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Good. Inhale look forward.
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On your exhale shift your hips back.
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Flex your right toes towards your face.
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And breathe here in this stretch soft bend or generous bend in that right knee.
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So we don't want to lock out the knee here.
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We want to find that bend in the knee so that we can target the hamstring with a little more specificity.
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You continue to notice your breath, breathe with awareness.
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And then rolling through that right foot, we'll plant the palms.
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And we're going to step back to downward facing dog.
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So you can move slowly mindfully we'll send the hips up high, melt the heart down ground through the knuckles and the fingertips.
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And then here, just take a couple moments to peddle out through the feet.
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Breathe. And then when you are ready, step the left foot forward into your lunge.
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Lower the right knee.
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Walk it back just a bit.
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Find your footing.
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Find your foundation and then inhale.
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Open the chest.
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Look forward.
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Stay for the exhale as you relax your shoulders down.
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Inhale in again and exhale to send the hips back.
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Now flexing your left toes towards your face.
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Big stretch here. Stay with it. Breathe.
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Gentle bend in the left knee.
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Giving the busy mind maybe a little break.
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And staying with the sensation here on your mat.
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Roll through that left foot.
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Plant the palms.
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Step it back to downward facing dog.
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Peddle it out. Three breaths here.
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Nice slow, smooth, steady breathing.
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After the third breath, we'll come up onto the tippy tip tip toes.
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I don't know if that was necessary.
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Could have just said tippy toes, but tippy tip tip.
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Ground through the index finger and thumb, imagine lifting a little bit more from your hip creases, maybe getting a little more melt in the heart.
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Maybe not. Inhale in again and then exhale.
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Let the heels get heavy.
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Drop them down. It's okay.
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They don't need to touch the mat.
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Beautiful. Then slowly and with control come back to all fours.
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Tabletop position.
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Curl the left toes under.
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Extend the left toes out and we'll give it a rock here.
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Beautiful. Come back to tabletop position.
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Swing the legs to one side.
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Any side. We'll come through to a seat.
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You can sit up on a prop if it feels right here.
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Bend the knees.
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Take the hands behind the thighs.
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Inhale. Lift your chest.
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Exhale slowly.
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Bring your heart forward and we'll begin to melt into a seated forward fold variation so you can stay here breathing.
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You can begin to extend through the heels.
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Breathing. You might grab the shins, the ankles or the feet.
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Maybe taking a bind by bringing the index finger and thumb to the big toe, index finger, middle finger and thumb.
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So I'll quiet down here and allow you to take three to five breaths here in this posture, I recommend softening your gaze or closing the eyes.
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Breathing with the sensation.
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And when you're ready in your own time, we can slowly release this and come to lie flat on our backs, knees bent, feet planted firmly on the earth.
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Get centered on your mat.
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And when you're ready on your inhale, send just the right leg up.
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Flex the right foot.
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Interlace the fingertips behind the right thigh.
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Stay here. Breathing can also use a strap or a little towel here to help give you a little support in and connecting with this.
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Leg up stretch like so.
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Or if you want to take it a little bit deeper, we can climb all the way up towards the ankle or take the bind even here.
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So everybody's going to be different.
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I recommend keeping a soft bend in that right knee.
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Final option is to extend the left leg, keep some energy through the left foot.
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Everyone use your next exhale to relax your shoulders.
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And then we'll switch.
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Right foot comes down.
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Take your time.
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Left foot goes up and we'll do the same thing on this side.
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Notice how this side might feel a little bit different.
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Stay present.
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This is the last move of our session here together.
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So keep your awareness on your breath and noticing any sensation in the body here.
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Maybe extend that right leg.
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And on your next exhalation, use it to relax your shoulders.
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And then we'll release.
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Hug both knees into the chest.
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Give yourself a big squeeze.
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Maybe rock a little side to side, then slide the hands behind the thighs.
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One last time.
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We'll rock and roll up and down the length of the spine.
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And you are done.
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We did it! Thank you so much for spending this time with me, and for spending this time with yourself, with your body and your breath.
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I will see you next time. Take good care. Namaste.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Yoga For Tight Hamstrings & Lower Back”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: knee, exhale, inhale, breath, toe. Questo video contiene 134 frasi e 1321 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:12. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 130 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
breathe verbo/bɹiːð/respirare
exhale verbo/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/espirare, esalare
inhale verbo/ɪnˈheɪl/inspirare, inalare
toe sostantivo/təʊ/dito del piede, dito
bend verbo/bɛnd/curvare, piegare
spine sostantivo/spaɪn/colonna vertebrale
ankle sostantivo/ˈæŋ.kəl/caviglia
thigh sostantivo/θaɪ/coscia
flex verbo/flɛks/piegare, flettere
heel sostantivo/hil/tallone, calcagno
sensation sostantivo/sɛnˈseɪʃən/sensazione, senso
melt verbo/mɛlt/sciogliere, fondere
thumb sostantivo/ˈθʌm/pollice, dito grosso
fingertip sostantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/punta del dito
lunge sostantivo/lʌnd͡ʒ/allungo, affondo

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
go up verbosalire
roll up verboarrotolare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • We'll move with the breath.
  • I don't know if that was necessary.
  • We'll come through to a seat.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Possibilità con “might / may” might/may + verbo — qualcosa di possibile ma non certomay need · might grab · might feel
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsioneWe'll sit · We'll move · we'll take
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivarewe're going to jump · It's going to go · we're going to step
Obbligo: must / have to / need to dire che qualcosa è necessarioneed to just be · need to touch

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 25 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we'll, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: breathe /bɹiːð/, thigh /θaɪ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, exhalation /ˌɛkshəˈleɪ̯ʃən/, inhalation /ˌɪnhəˈleɪʃən/, shin /ʃɪn/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: exhalation /ˌɛkshəˈleɪ̯ʃən/, inhalation /ˌɪnhəˈleɪʃən/, specificity /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: exhale /ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/, inhale /ɪnˈheɪl/, hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, heel /hil/, exhalation /ˌɛkshəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bend /bɛnd/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, flex /flɛks/, melt /mɛlt/, fingertip /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌtɪp/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, ankle /ˈæŋ.kəl/, strap /stɹæp/, stack /stæk/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come breathe, exhale, inhale.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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