Here are some ideas for studying the pose. Please share if you have other ideas:
1. Play with how strong your legs need to extend. How far can you engage before they feel rigid? How far can you release before they are sagging? Where is your happy medium?
2. What can you do to get more openness in the upper back? Can you so something with your arms to create more openness? Legs? Core?
3. Play with going into the pose through a flow (Adho Mukha Svanasana to Chaturanga Dandasana) or pushing up from the ground. Compare the two with no judgment. What I mean is, assume one is not better than the other (and even let go of preferences...have a Beginner’s Mind), they are just different and teaching you something different. What is each one teaching you?
4. What pose do you feel like doing when you are done with this pose? Why?
1. Play with how strong your legs need to extend. How far can you engage before they feel rigid? How far can you release before they are sagging? Where is your happy medium?
2. What can you do to get more openness in the upper back? Can you so something with your arms to create more openness? Legs? Core?
3. Play with going into the pose through a flow (Adho Mukha Svanasana to Chaturanga Dandasana) or pushing up from the ground. Compare the two with no judgment. What I mean is, assume one is not better than the other (and even let go of preferences...have a Beginner’s Mind), they are just different and teaching you something different. What is each one teaching you?
4. What pose do you feel like doing when you are done with this pose? Why?
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