How To Do The Bound Forward Fold Yoga Pose Video

In yoga the Bound Forward Fold involves twisting the body and clasping the hands together. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Place feet wider than hips
Root into feet
Bend knees to lock
Focus on breath

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, [PH] Faith is going to be demonstrating the bound forward fold. Bound forward fold is a preparatory pose to come in some other poses, such as possibly the Bird of Paradise pose. So we're going to ask Faith. She's going to bring her feet a little bit wider than her hips, good. She's going to root down into her feet, think about her posture, aligning, bring her body into alignment, drawing her belly button into the spine and reaching up through the crown of the head. She's going to inhale and extend her arms out to the sides, lengthening up, and then as she exhales, lifting out of her hips to fold forward. Good. Now Faith is going to take her left hand and stretch it all the way over to the right and maybe even just pause there, pressing her fingertips into the ground and lengthening her left hip back so she opens up through her side body, gets a little stretch. Then she's going to go ahead and take her hand in between her legs, and bring her hand up to her left hip. Good. Inhaling, extending her right arm up and around, to where she can come into the bind. Now, if you have trouble getting into the bind, you can bend the knee and you could keep the knee bent, or you could bend the knee and then straighten the knee. Then she comes into a twist, inhale, lengthening he spine, and exhale, rotating her shoulder open. This massages the abdominal organs, works her legs, works her feet. Good. And then she can come out of that. So this was the bound forward fold, you have to remember to use length through the spine, use your breath, honor your body, and ground and center.

How to Do the Bound Forward Fold Yoga Pose Video

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