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Benefits:
  • Improves balance
  • Develops body awareness
  • Strengthens the wrists, triceps, shoulders, chest and core
  • Increases hip mobility

Cues:
  • Start this pose in a wide legged yoga squat
  • Shift forward and place your hands on the ground shoulder width apart about a foot ahead of your feet
  • Focus your gaze on a spot on the floor approximately half a foot to a foot in front of your hands
  • Bend the elbows slightly as if you were coming into chaturanga and bring your knees onto your triceps
  • Shift your weight forward onto your hands continuing to look ahead of you
  • Come onto the tip toes of one foot and when you are comfortable raise your foot off of the ground
  • Gradually do the same with the second foot coming into the balance

Common Errors:
  • Sight line is too close to the hands
  • Fingers too close together​
  • The hands are too close to the feet
Modifications:
  • To lessen the intensity of this pose you can:
    • You can keep your toes on the ground
    • You can keep your toes on the ground and lift one foot while the other stays on the ground

Cautions:
  • Pain in the:
    • Wrists
    • Elbows
    • Shoulders
    • Neck
  • Dizzy or light headed
Alternative Poses:
  • High Pushup
  • Low Pushup

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