How To Do The Extended Side Arm Balance Yoga Pose Video

The Extended Side Arm Pose engages the core muscles and improves balance. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Let go of fear
Engage core
Find counter balance
Use belly lock
Breathe & center

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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 demonstrate for us the extended side arm balance. It is a balance pose. We have to be careful to fear--to let go of your fear of falling. You have to engage your core because that is what is going to help you find that delicate point of balance. So we are going to ask Faith to come into seated dandasana, extending her legs forward, lengthening up, good. She is going to bend through her right knee, bring it in and may be just push it out to the side a little just to get a little fluid going in that hip socket, good. She is going to reach her right arm underneath her knee and bring her hand way back towards her hip, good, the higher up on your arm bone the better, good. She is spreading her fingers wide to have a strong base to connect to the ground with, good. She is going to bend her other foot, other knee and cross her foot at the ankles, good. Now inhaling in as she exhales squeezing the root lock, squeezing the belly lock, extending her legs out to the side, squeezing her arm, good and bringing her weight way forward, beautiful Faith. Whenever she is ready, she can lower down. So that is eight-angle pose, astavakrasana, it is a balance pose, and it takes a fine idea of where that center balance is. You have to find your counterbalance, you have to use your belly lock, you have to breathe, and you have to center.

How to Do the Extended Side Arm Balance Yoga Pose Video

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