The One Foot to Head Posture Yoga Pose

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Cindy Mastry with Yoga Etcetera Studio on behalf of Expert Village. This is April and she is going to help me demonstrate in this clip, the modified foot to head pose. April is seated in dandasna with a nice tall spine and lengthening out through the legs, pulling her feet towards her knees pressing her calves into her shins. She is going to bend her right knee and turn her ankle over out to the side. Now we are just going to warm up her hips a little bit. So, we are just going to come into a little cradle rock. She can also take this into a little circle or a circle in the other direction, however she would like. Just trying to get that femur bone loose in the hip socket. So, when she's ready, she's then going to take her right arm underneath her knee and bring that leg up either up over her shoulder or as high up on her upper arm as she can. Good. Now she's going to take her hands down and spread her fingers really wide because it's really important that we don't put all the weight right in the wrist. She wants to spread her fingers so she can use all the parts of her hand. She's going to inhale, engage her core, and lift her hips up and lift her foot and come into the balance. Beautiful! Then she's going to slowly lower back down, release through the leg take it back out and then once again find her dandasna. And that's the modified foot to head pose."