Yoga: Reclining Big Toe Pose

Video Transcript

"So laying flat on your back, have a strap nearby. First, make sure that you're lined up evenly from the mid-line or the central axis of your body, so just make sure that your legs are hip width apart evenly, that your arms and your shoulders are evenly apart. That your head is great in line with the spine. Then, point your second toes straight up toward the sky and keeping them pointing straight up bend your right knee, and take your strap to the balls of the right toes. So it'll tend to slip into the arch of the foot, you want to really hook it at the balls of the toes. And then push the balls of the toes up into the strap to stretch your right leg more straight. Now for some of you if your hamstrings, the muscle at the backs of the leg are more tight, your wag is going to be more straight out in front. That's fine. You want to bring the leg to wherever you can to try and get it to straight as possible. And you'll get a really nice stretch. Also, your bottom leg, it'll tend to want to lift up. If you find that it's really lifting up, bend your bottom knee and keep it bend even as you stretch the top leg. You can spread your toes actively and push from the hip all the way up through the top legs, the top legs really extended and long. Try extending your bottom leg again, and see if you can push your bottom leg down toward the earth. Keep your breath full. There's a steadiness or commitments in the legs as the muscles hug the bones, but an openness as you stretch and you expand. Good. And then slowly you can bend the knee and release the leg long."