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Routine to Help You Do Splits E-mail
Level 6 Difficulty. Time to Do: Approximately 30 - 40 minutes. Here's a routine to help the keen athletes among us be able to do the splits. If you do this routine at least four days a week, you should soon be seeing progress in your splits.

Use Breathing Theme 5, 21 or any Yellow Level Breathing Theme. If you use the Yellow Level Breathing Themes, remember to match your movements with your breathing, except on the pigeon, which invites you to relax into the pose and feel the stretch deepening as you breathe in and out.

This routine consists of easier, 'warm up' poses and more demanding poses later in the work out. If the more demanding ones are hard for you, you might like to go to our Substitutions page, or simply stick to the easier poses for now. In time, these easier ones will make it possible to do the harder ones.

We apologize that not all the poses are detailed on this site yet.

Warm Up
Frog
5 - 10 repetitions. Then stand up and pause as your body lets go of the stretch. Then 5 - 10 repetitions. (If using Breathing Theme 5 or 21, just do 3 repetitions each time.)
Lunge
3 - 5 on each leg, alternating legs. Then stand up and pause as your body lets go of the stretch. Then 3 - 5 repetitions on each leg, alternating legs. (If using Breathing Theme 5 or 21, just do 3 repetitions for each leg.)
Optional
Modified Side Stretch
3 times on each side, alternating sides.
Optional
Chest Expansion - Leg Extensions only
3 times on each side, alternating sides.
Butterfly
5 - 10 repetitions. Then sit up and pause as your body lets go of the stretch. Then 5 - 10 repetitions. (If using Breathing Theme 5 or 21, just do 3 repetitions each time.)
Butterfly Extension
3 - 5 repetitions. Then sit up and pause as your body lets go of the stretch. Then 5 - 10 repetitions. (If using Breathing Theme 5 or 21, just do 1repetition.)
Sitting Wide Angle with Twist
5 on each side, alternating sides. Then face forward and pause as your body lets go of the stretch. Then 5 repetitions on each leg, alternating legs. (If using Breathing Theme 5 or 21, just do 3 repetitions for each side.)
Pigeon
3 repetitions for each leg, alternating legs, using Breathing Theme 5 or 21.

Spider 3
3 times on each side, alternating sides.
 
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