Crow

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Benefits:

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

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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

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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

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Cautions:

• Pain in the:
  • Wrists
  • Elbows
  • Shoulders
  • Neck
• Dizzy or light headed

Alternative Poses:

• High Pushup
• Low Pushup