Upward Facing Dog is one of the positions in the Sun Salute. As you can see in the picture your arms are straight with your shoulders over your fingers and your legs straight out behind you. There are several ways that you can injure yourself in this pose if it is done incorrectly. Where can […]
Betty always comes to class with her chewing gum already fully engaged. She finds that chewing gum really helps to keep her mouth from drying out and she is so good at blowing bubbles during class and popping them. She doesn’t even get the popped bubble stuck on her face. She gets lots of attention […]
Bob winced when he saw it. Bob was at the garden store and he was looking at hanging baskets of flowers for sale. The hanging baskets reminded him of the yoga pose Uttanasana. Whenever Bob attempted Uttanasana he looked like a hanging basket of flowers. He would fold forward and his arms would hang […]
Look at a suspension bridge. There are two high towers and two low towers. The suspension cables go from the low tower up to the high tower and then the cables hang down between the two high towers. Upward Facing Dog looks a lot like a suspension bridge. The arms are the high tower The […]
Imagine that every time you do a Sun Salute that your wrists hurt. You would quickly decide that you did not want to do Sun Salutes anymore. But Sun Salutes are an important part of your yoga practice. If you leave out the Sun Salutes you will be missing a lot of benefits that come […]
Imagine that you are Alice’s yoga mat. You can feel the weight of Alice pressing into you at various places over your surface as she goes through her yoga practice. Suddenly you realize that Alice has gone into down dog and that she will be holding that pose for awhile. You check out the pressure […]
Are your driving lights on? Is your seat belt fastened? Are the doors shut? Are all of the windows clean? This is a checklist before you start driving your car. In a similar fashion there is a list of things to check when you are doing Warrior I that will prevent you from injuring yourself. […]
“What was that sound?” thought Alice. There it was again! A rhythmic clunking sound coming from some where nearby. It was quite distracting. At last she finally spotted the source. One of the ladies off to the side was wearing several loose bracelets. They were sliding up and down her arms and clunking together as […]
“Ugh! Not another Sun Salute!” thought Alice. I really enjoy the flowing nature of a Sun Salute. How you move from one pose to the next in series as you breathe in and out. But there is one pose in the series that really bothers me. Every time I do Upward Facing Dog my neck […]
Chatarunga Dandasana In the previous position your inhaled and lifted the chest and head from your thighs. In this position you exhale jump back to high plank lower down towards the floor and hover above the floor and your gaze is down the nose towards the floor How to do it If your hands were […]
