Warrior 3

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Benefits:

• Improves balance
• Develops body awareness
• Increases shoulders, hip and knee mobility
• Strengthens feet, ankles, quads, glutes, core and shoulders
• Improves focus

Cues:

• Start in mountain pose
• Place your palms together at your sternum
• Feel strongly into the four corners of the right foot
• Put a slight bend in your knee engaging the quads and glutes
• On an exhale begin to bring your left foot off of the ground 
• Fold forward at your hips
• Extend your arms straight forward in line with the shoulder joint

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Common Errors:

• Positioning of the standing knee
• Grounding of the standing foot
• Are not neutral
• The arms are lower than the shoulders

Modifications:

• To lessen the intensity of the pose you can:
  • Keep your hands at your chest

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Cautions:

• Pain in the:
  • Feet
  • Ankles
  • Hip
  • Back
  • Shoulders

Alternate Poses:

• Tree
• Extended Mountain