Benefits:

For your body:

• Stretches intercostal muscles
• Expands lung capacity
• Stimulate balance on one leg

For your mind:

• Develops your ability to focus your gaze and enhance your breath
• Centers your mind
• Calms you down by putting you in a place you are challenged to balance

For your spirit:

• Shows your determination
• It gives you an uplifting spirit
• It opens up a harmony between you and your breath

(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 strap hooked to your foot and pull it over your head.
• Put your hand on a wall to help your balance.
• Kick back only lightly and keep your knees close together.

Pose Description:

1. Start in standing at attention pose.
2. With hands at prayer on your chest.
3. Root your body weight down your left leg.
4. Plant the sole of your left foot evenly.
5. Engage your core to support your balance throughout.
6. Open your right-hand palm up with your thumb facing back.
7. Bend your right leg and heel toward the glute.
8. Straighten your right arm and grab the inside of your right foot.
9. (Be sure your elbow is not twisted.)
10. Knees remain close together.
11. Reach your left arm overhead.
12. Settle for a few breath cycles.
13. Engage your thigh and kick back, and then up.
14. Reach toward the ceiling.
15. Move to the rhythm of your breath, relaxing your eyes to one place before you.
16. An inhale can carry you up, and an exhale can carry your right foot down.

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