TUTORIAL
Extended Hand to Toe Pose A
Kiana Ng Yoga
Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana A
This pose works your hamstrings, hips and balance while improving your focus and concentration.
Alignment Principles
- Start in a Tadasana
- Exhale to hug right knee into your chest
- Take right peace fingers to hook them around the right big toe
- Inhale to lengthen foot to crown of head
- Exhale to start to strengthen the right leg straight forwards
- Plug the right shoulder back
- Draw the belly in
- Drop the right hip down to avoid hiking it up into the side body
Prep. Poses:
- Supine Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana (Supine Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose)
- Padangusthasana (Hand to Big Toe Pose)
- Paschimottanasana (Seated Forward Fold
Modifications/Variations:
- Use a strap around the sole of the lifted foot to bridge the gap between hand and foot while maintaining length in spine
- Modify with bent knee if unable to straighten the lifted leg completely yet