How To Do The Half Lotus To Crane Balance Yoga Pose Video

Change from the Half Lotus Forward Fold into the Crane Balance Pose. Learn a new yoga pose in this video yoga lesson.

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Let go of fear
Engage core
Begin in Half Lotus Forward Fold
Make shelf with elbow
Use belly lock

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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 help me demonstrate the half lotus forward fold to crane balance. Remember it is a balance pose and with all balance poses, you have to let go of your fear. In this balance pose we are literally going to be turning our world upside down offering a new perspective. So we are going to make sure that Faith has a pillow just in case it gets a little windy up there. So we are going to have Faith come around to the side or you want to go this way that is right. She is going to bring her leg--her heel up to her hip bone grounding through her standing foot engaging her thigh and rooting down into the earth. Tilting her tailbone under to draw her belly in, she is going to inhale her arms out to the side lengthening up, finding her alignment and then as she exhales she is going to fold forward, good, and she is really going to have to engage her core, her root lock, her belly lock so that she can bend her elbows and lay her knee right on that elbow to make a little shelf out of her elbows, good, engaging her core, lifting up through her [INDISCERNIBLE], her belly lock, her root lock and lifting her foot off the ground, good. Now if you are having trouble holding that, you can lower down and lift up, lower down and lift up, but you are good Faith? Good. So reestablishing that focal point so you can draw your belly in as you exhale to lift yourself all the way back up, good. And release the arms and release the leg. So this was half lotus to crane balance. It is a balance pose which requires you to let go of your fear, turn your world upside down, use your breath and a focal point.

How to Do the Half Lotus to Crane Balance Yoga Pose Video

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