Standing Yoga Poses - Standing yoga side angle pose
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Extended Side Angle, Utthita Parsvakonasana. I strongly urge you to have already view this
pose in the first series. We're going to use a strap to assist in this pose. And the way
that you take your strap, and you're just going to lock your strap in. And you're going
to need to find, play a little bit to find what length that you're going to use with
your strap. But what we're going to do with the strap is we're going to loop it around
your foot and then we're going to loop it around your front hip. So you can plainly
see that you need to have different length straps and find out what works best for you.
But with all the cues that we got in the first series, practicing Utthita Parsvakonasana,
you want to keep this foot in Tadasana grounded. But the strap is going to help to keep this
hip back. So as we talked about plugging the femur into the hip socket, the straps going
to get that job done for you. And it's going to allow her to maintain this pose lunging
just deeper into her knee and then she's going to use the block with the aid of her to block
and finish the pose. Using length so that there's an effort to come up and it's not
just there. There's an effort to lengthen the spine. But with the support of this strap,
she's going to be able to stay in this pose for up to two minutes and then present it
on the other side.
