Benefits:

For your body:

• Stretches your side body
• Engages stabilizer muscles in your back
• Strengthens your obliques and inner thigh muscles

For your mind:

• Extends your mind deeper to the center of your body
• Allows you to imprint conscious thought
• It helps you think about what is behind you to stabilize your balance.

For your spirit:

• Empowers you
• Sparks your creativity
• Grounds you to your inner balance

(DISCLAIMER: DO THESE POSES TO YOUR ABILITY; YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN BODY AND WHAT YOU DO. BE SAFE, AND YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.)

Modifications:

• Use a block to put your palm on if you are working on reaching the ground.
• Shorten your stance between your feet.

Pose Description:

1. Start in a warrior two position.
2. Gaze at your backhand and open your palms toward the wall.
3. Extend your front arm forward.
4. Engage your oblique and steady your torso and legs.
5. Lower your front arm and reach your backhand up.
6. Reach your upper arm over your head with your ear by your bicep.
7. Extend your fingertips and draw your chest open.
8. Lean back a little bit.
9. Breathe here a few cycles.

Relax, Rest, and Practice Again. You Can Do This! You Are A Yogi!