How To Do The Eagle Pose Video

Improve balance and strengthen legs with the Eagle Pose. Learn how to do the Eagle Pose in this video clip about yoga positions and moves.

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Stand up straight on one foot
Bring right knee over left
Extend & cross arms
Place palms together
Breathe properly

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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 Eagle Pose. It's a hip and shoulder opener, a very stabilizing pose and a balance pose, so it's going to work a lot of aspects of your body. We're going to ask Faith to find a mountain post, lengthening up, rooting down onto the earth through her feet and lengthening up through the crown of the head. She's going to transfer all her weight over to her left foot, ground through her left foot and engage her left thigh and just bending the knee just slightly. Good. She's going to bring her right knee over her left. Go ahead and bend the knee a little more. Good. And if she can, she's going to wrap that foot around her calf. If not, you can always take it out to the side, and also, if you're having trouble balancing you can always press that toe right down into the earth to help you ground even a little more. Engage through your core. Good. She's going to inhale and extend her arms out to the sides. Good. As she exhales, her right arm is going to go under and her left arm comes over wrapping around and seeing if she can't find her palms of her hands together. Good. She's going to draw her belly button in and lift her elbows up, in line with her shoulders--very nice, good--opening up through her shoulder blades, opening up through her hips. And she's going to keep trying to align her shoulder girdle over her hip girdle and both her shoulders and hips aligned forward, breathing into the pose a little will, a little surrender, so balancing the two. Good. Inhale and releasing the hands, releasing the legs and returning to mountain pose. So it's a balancing pose. It's going to open your hips, open your shoulders. You need to use your breath and use your options to center and ground.

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