Yoga Dancer's Pose

Video Transcript

"Nataraja, Dancer's Pose. Beginning in the soles of your feet to create balance, lengthening in the spine and finding a place of focus. Balance is eighty percent focus, rather than the ability of your body. So, grounding the soles of both of your feet, let us use an inhale to bend the left leg and see if we can gently hold on to the ankle or to the foot. And then we're going to pause to recreate alignment so that left knee is pointing towards the earth. With your new inhale we're going to lift that right arm and with the exhale we're going to strongly press the left foot into the left hand as you begin to hinge forward, begin to open the left hip, strongly keep pushing that foot in to the left hand, that's going to help your balance here. So in order for her to create stability, your openness in that hip, that's where that work is going to come from, it's from the strong push of the left foot into the left hand. As she lengthens through that right arm, she still wants to keep the shoulders out of her ears. Once again, the job, or the way that you get balance done is focus."