How To Do Shirshansana Posture Video

The Shirshasana Postue is an advanced yoga pose that resembles a headstand. Learn how to do the Shirshasana Posture in this video clip about yoga exercises.

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Come into table top position
Balance on forearms
Interlace fingers
Place head between arms on floor
Extend legs & lift
Walk feet in, bend knees, extend leg towards ceiling

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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 sirshasana or the head stand pose. So, Faith is going to--it's a very stabilizing, strong balance pose. Faith is going to come forward into tabletop. Good. We're going to have her come down on her forearms, and then she's going to measure by bringing her hands to the outsides of her elbows. This measures how far apart that your elbow should be. She's going to take her hands back, interlace her fingers, yeah, and place it there--she wants to keep a cup in the hands because that's exactly where your head goes. She's going to take her head down to the ground and you want to place your head somewhere, and it takes awhile for everybody to find the exact spot between the forehead and the fontanel--that soft spot that hardens when you're young, remember? So somewhere in between that, Faith is going to curl her toes under and press her hips up lifting her knees. She's going to walk her feet in. Now, it's important that she begin to really press into her forearms. That's where you want to hold the weight. You want very little of your weight on the top of your head, and the more you can walk your feet in, the more you can align your hips over your shoulders where--and it's easier to do the headstand. We're going to ask Faith to engage her core, engage the root lock and then begin to bend her knees and pull them into her chest. Good, good. Still using her root lock and her belly lock, she's going to extend the legs up to the sky, good, pressing down into her forearms, flexing her feet and engaging her thighs. You need to engage your thighs and really press to almost feel like you're just standing on the ceiling. Beautiful, good. And then she can come down in the same manner. Good. So remember, the weight should not be in your head. It should be on your forearms, use you breath, use your belly lock and your root lock to help you come up to headstand and the most important thing is to let go of your fear.

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