Warrior Pose in Hatha Yoga

Video Transcript

"Hi and welcome! My name is Scott Soller, yoga instructor on behalf of Expert Village. For the Warrior I, you want to inhale, bring the feet wide, exhaling hands to hips. Inhaling return one set of toes to the side aligning your heels, exhaling squaring your hips to the invisible heel to heel line, even the sit bones over the line. With navel coming in, the tail points down, inhaling the arms float up, float the chest up, keeping the chest lifted, draw the abdominals in and relax the knee over the heel. Now even heel rear ground build the pose from the ground up, when the navel comes in, the tail points down, on the inhale roll the inner thighs slightly out, and from the outside of the one foot reach into the knee of the opposite foot. The arms are up, fingers together, palms down at the back hand over the back foot and gaze into the direction of your index finger. Keep lifting up from your abdominals, floating the chest up; you want to inhale the shoulders back and then exhaling them down. Make sure that you, when you release the pose, inhale straighten the leg, exhale turn the toes in. Make sure that you finish and balance by doing the other side."