How To Do The Compass Yoga Pose Video

The Compass Pose involves variations in pointing the extended leg. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Work hamstrings
Lengthen through spine
Lift chest & rotate
Ensure hips are ready

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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, I'm going to be demonstrating the compass pose. It's quite a hip opener, it's going to work your hamstring, takes a little of stamina and strength. So the first thing we're going to do, lengthen up through your spine and bring your leg up maybe just getting a little bit of movement through the hip. You're going to reach your leg as high up as you can on your upper arm bone and place the knee right over--so it's like you make a little shelf right out of your arm for your leg. Good. Once you have that, you're going to take your arm around to come in for the bind. So binding the hands and back, good. Inhaling in and as you exhale, you extend the leg, trying to lengthen through the spine and pointing the point of your compass. If you'd like to move your compass to another point, you can also come into another variation. Again, lifting your chest and rotating. So compass pose is a hip opener, it's a little bit more difficult, so you should be sure that your hips are ready, because we wouldn't want to pull anything. So have you to practice Ahimsa, you have to ground through the body, root, and breathe.

How to Do the Compass Yoga Pose Video

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