How To Do The Bound Side Angle Yoga Pose Video

The yoga Bound Side Angle Pose begins in the Warrior Two Pose. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Keep feet wide
Start in Warrior Two Pose
Open through side body
Work core muscles
Use 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, Faith is going to be demonstrating the bound side angle pose. I'm going to ask Faith to come forward and she's just going to start with her feet wide. Good. I'm going to have Faith start in Warrior Two. She's going to turn her right toes to the right, her left heel back. Inhaling in as she lengthens her spine, she reaches her arms out to the sides and relaxes her shoulders down. Notice how she draws her bellybutton in. Good, she's going to bend through her right knee coming into Warrior Two. Good. On her next inhalation, lengthening out through her spine, reaching over to the side to come into side angle stretch. Good. Feeling that line of energy that runs from the heel all the way up to the fingertips, opening up through the side body, the side door to the heart. Good. Faith is going to inhale before she comes into the next portion of the move and then she's going to reach her bottom arm under and wrap her top arm over, finding her hand or perhaps a strap, perhaps a towel, and then try to open up her chest. She uses her upper arm to press into her knee, and her knee to press into her arm to help with the balance, although the core is doing the majority of the work and the leg strength of course. Good, inhaling in to release, inhale lifting up, good, and then stepping out of the pose. So remember, to breathe, use your breath before you come into each new part of the pose, only bound if you're absolutely ready, you don't need to bind so you let go of your ego. Honor your body, listen to what your body's telling you, and if it says you're okay to bind, then go ahead and try it. If not, maybe it's not for you today. Listen for your breath, ground and breathe.

How to Do the Bound Side Angle Yoga Pose Video

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