TUTORIAL
Eagle Pose
Kiana Ng Yoga
Garudasana
For a lot of people, this pose is love/hate kind of pose… You have to work the strength of the lengths while maintaining the flexibility in the hips to hook that ankle behind the calf!
Alignment Principles
- Start in Tadasana
- Cross the right elbow on top of the left and try to bind the palms of the hands together
- Lift the elbows as high as you can while drawing the hands away from the face
- Slide the shoulder blades down the back
- Take the left knee into your chest and start to cross the knee all the way over the right
- Sit your hips back, like Chair Pose, and hug the inner thighs together
- Hook the top of the left foot around the back of the right calf
- Draw the belly in and round the tailbone down to counter the backbend in the lower back
- Keep the chest lifting instead of folding forwards
- Repeat other side
Prep. Poses:
- Chair Pose (Utkatasana)
- Cow Face Pose (Gomukhasana)
- Thread the Needle Pose
Modifications/Variations:
- Leave the lifted foot in kickstand by placing the ball of the foot on the ground to the outside of the already grounded foot
- Leave the lifted foot in the air but unhooked around the back of the standing calf
- Grab opposite shoulders with the hands instead of binding the palms together