How To Do The Firefly Yoga Pose Video

The Firefly Pose is an advanced balance pose. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Let go of fear
Engage core
Find counter balance
Walk hands back behind legs
Move energy forward

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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 help me demonstrate the firefly pose. Firefly pose is a balance pose so you have to learn to let go of your fear, engage your core and find that focal point that will bring you in to that counterbalance. So Faith is going to turn sideways and just in case, to help you let go of that fear, we are going to bring a pillow and plant it right down behind Faith, good. She is going to step her feet a little bit wider than hip widths finding her long spine, inhaling, reaching her arms up to the sky and over her head, as she exhales just [SOUNDS LIKE] spilling forward out of her hips to lengthen through her spine. She is going to thread her hands through her legs and walk her hands back placing the V of her thumb and forefinger behind the heels, good. And she makes a shelf out of her elbows for her thighs, good. She is going to drop her tailbone down. Now it is important that you keep your energy moving forward or else you are going to fall back so she's in it. It is okay to fall. Remember, it is okay to fall. She is going to extend her legs forward, good, good and then up and out, beautiful, working her core, good and then lowering back down. That is the firefly pose. It is an advanced pose. You really have to let go of your fear, keep your energy moving forward so you do not fall back. And remember, it is okay to fall.

How to Do the Firefly Yoga Pose Video

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