One Legged One Armed Downward Facing Dog Yoga Pose

Series Summary

Though Yoga began as a religion in India, it has become a system of exercise and personal meditation in Western countries. Yoga exercise poses such as the Downward Facing Dog, Cobra Pose, and forward fold are practiced by over 16 million Americans. Many people start with basic positions such as the aforementioned poses, and continue to learn new and more challenging poses. Have learned basic Yoga poses, positions, and techniques but are wanting to learn more? Go no further, than right here. If you would like to learn more advanced Yoga poses and techniques, learn for free, online, from one of our experts.

In this free online video series learn from advanced Yoga poses from expert Samantha Raphael, as she teaches Yoga techniques such as the one legged, one armed downward facing dog, and the warrior 1 into forward fold with bound hands. Learn also the extended side angle to Bird of Paradise pose, side plank tree pose, bound tree pose, crow pose, Tortoise pose, and the wide angle extended cross arms twist Yoga technique.

Video Transcript

" Hello! My name is Samantha Rafael on behalf of expertvillage.com and you can visit me online at bepresentyoga.com. In this clip I’ll be demonstrating one legged and one armed downward facing dog. So first of all what you do to get into this posture is you come into downward facing dog placing your hands at the front of your mat, your legs in the back of the mat, arms should be about shoulders distance apart, legs about hips distance, so from here you begin to lift your right leg, the right foot is flexed and the toes are spread, then slowly begin to take your left arm off of the earth, from here you wrap your left arm behind your back. If this is enough you can stay here, otherwise begin to bend your right knee and then grab for the inner edge of your right foot, use your gaze here to balance, kick your foot into your hand. This is one legged and one armed down dog, when you’re done with the right side after five breaths switch to the left."