The Detour approach to Dhanurasana, or Bow Pose, has the potential to revolutionize your backbending practice. Once you know how to prepare the body and find activation in the glutes, hamstrings, upper back and shoulders, your experience of this pose will never be the same! Moving through the phases of Isolate-Activate-Integrate, we'll Detour our way to Bow Pose and visit the many different variations available to suit your needs. Set yourself up with 2 blocks, a bolster (or dense cushion), blanket and belt (neck tie or yoga strap works too).
Movilizaremos pies,muñecas, hombros, columna y cadera de una forma amable y divertida para que el cuerpo se encuentre listo para nuestra invitada La plancha al revés o purvottanasana. Utilizaremos dos cubos, una liga de resistencia y una cobija para prepararnos y al finalizar poder llegar a la pl...
Hero pose is wonderful if you take your time to get there. Most of this flow is active and spicy, with some time to chill at the end in hero pose. This provides some of the foundational work in building towards a drop back, which is featured in the Mobility Maintenance Challenge flow.
Standing head to knee pose involves a lot of effort, period. The second way to approach it requires even more... and is a bit of an extension of some of the handing hamstring work you may have encountered with me in other practices. Enjoy!
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