Benefits:

For your body:

• Stretches your Gluteus Minimus muscle
• Strengthens your oblique muscle
• Increases strength in your ankle stabilizer muscles

For your mind:

• Centers your mind on one leg
• Focus’ your mind to strengthen very specific muscles in your body
• Relaxes your mind because this pose releases the right chemicals in your brain that calm your down

For your spirit:

• You can see the greater symbols in your body go from mammalian to numerical symbolism
• You can stand on one leg and you know it is possible
• The number 4 represents transition and stability, it will give you a guide to your breath and so much more…

(Your body is your own so be sure to do these poses the certain way your body needs to do them, not the way my body does them in the pictures.)

Modifications:

• Use a chair to sit on and do this posture.
• Move to a reclined figure 4 posture.

Pose Description:

1. Start in a standing position.
2. Plant your body weight toward your left foot.
3. Bend your right knee and place your right foot just above your left knee.
4. This is the figure “4” position.
5. Keep your shoulders stacked over your hips.
6. Slowly bend your left leg and sit into a chair position.
7. (Can take on a twist here.)
8. Breath here for a few cycles.