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Flying Eagle


Benefits:
  • Improves balance
  • Improves body awareness
  • Increases shoulder, hip and knee mobility
  • Increases shoulder, hip, knee and back stability
  • Improves focus

Cues:
  • From eagle on an exhale fold forward at your hips slowly bringing your elbows towards the knees
  • On an inhale unwrap your arms and legs extending the top leg back behind you and the arms out wide like airplane wings with the palms pointed towards the ground

Common Errors:
  • Positioning of the standing knee
  • Grounding of the standing foot
  • Shrugging the shoulders
  • Clenching the fingers
  • Arms uneven

Modifications:
  • Remaining in Eagle with modifications for that pose

Cautions:
  • Knee injuries
  • Ankle injuries
  • Shoulder injuries
  • Back injuries
Alternate Poses:
  • Warrior III
  • Flying Lunge

Anatomy:


Lengthening:
  • Hamstrings
  • Biceps
Strengthening:
  • Traps
  • Rhomboids
  • Triceps
  • Quadriceps
  • Glutes
  • Ankles
  • ​Feet

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