The Dancing Dog Yoga Pose

Series Summary

The tradition of yoga as a means for healthy living and spiritual fitness is more than 5,000 years old. While yoga has been practiced throughout the East, it wasn’t until the late 1800’s that modern yoga made its way to the United States, and the last ten years have seen a sharp increase in the number of people learning about its benefits and utilizing its practices. Though the roots of yoga lie in philosophy and meditation, yoga as a form of fitness is extremely useful and beneficial for everyone. Many people utilize yoga for its calming and therapeutic nature. Some choose to do yoga because it is a great way to stay limber and in shape. With the rising interest in yoga people have been focusing on specific benefits that can be reaped from practicing certain yoga exercises.

In these free online video yoga lessons you'll watch expert instructor Cindy Mastry demonstrate various types of yoga poses and positions. You'll learn how to do the dancing dog pose, warrior pose, the tree in half lotus pose, the bird of paradise and many more. These poses are a great way to relax and improve your flexibility level, as well as help in relieving stress and even combating depression.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Cindy Mastry with Yoga etc Studio on behalf of Expert Village. This is Faith and Faith is going to help me today with demonstrating dancing dog. Faith is going to start in mountain pose, she is going to inhale and reach her arms up to extended mountain pose and she is just going to fall forward on her exhale. She is going to walk her hands forward into down dog and on the exhale she presses back so it is just like she is in a down V. She is going to place all of here weight in her left foot and extend her right leg up to the sky. Continuing to bend the knee as she opens her hip and she is going to open it so far that it is going to come all the way down and her toes are just going to touch the ground and she is going to open her hand up coming into ........... a energy seal. Good and then she is going to bring here hand back, extend her leg back up to the sky and then bend the knee into the chest, and then bring the leg through to the other side lifting her left arm and coming into that back and extending long through her fingers. Good and then she is going to bring here hand down, bring her leg through, back to her three legged dog and lower the foot back to down dog. The ancient yogas use to watch animals do different poses and that is why so many of the names of the yoga poses are animals names cause that is where the poses where drive from. Beautiful Faith thanks so much and that is dancing dog. "