Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Your First Yoga Pose

Downward Facing Dog PoseYou have plenty time to learn scores of yoga poses. Start with a simple pose.

Downward facing dog is a widely distributed pose for yoga classes. It is a transitional resting pose. It may be your first yoga pose as you begin yoga practice.

1. Come to your hands and knees with the armlets underneath the shoulders and the knees underneath the hips.

2. Inhale, arch your spine and look up as you turn your toes under.

3. Spread the fingers and worn down from the brachiums into the fingertips.

4. Outwardly rotate the upper arms broadening the collarbones.

5. Let the head hang, move the shoulders, feel your muscles from the ears towards the hips.

6. Engage the quadriceps strongly to take the weight off the arms, make this a resting pose.

7. Now push the floor away from you hands, positioning your body like an inverted V, amount up a straight line from your hands to your shoulders to the hips. Keep arms and legs straight. Press downward into your hands as you inhale and lift outward out of the shoulders.