Flying Crow Yoga Pose - Eka Pada Galavasana
Type of yoga pose: arm balance
Benefits: the pose helps increase arm, core strength and balance. Besides that it opens the hips.
Instructions for getting into Flying Crow Yoga Pose:
1. You should start with standing on the left leg.
2. Being in this position you are to remove the right foot from the inner left thigh and put your right ankle over the left knee instead of it.
3. Then you should bend forward and put the palms on the floor.
4. Now you are to bend your left leg on which you are standing.
5. Being in this position you should hook right foot toes around your upper left arm at the same time having your right foot strongly flexed. The toes must tightly hug the arm.
6. Then you should bend the elbows.
7. Now bring your body weight forward by raising the left foot off the floor and keeping the knee bent.
8. At the next step you should bring even more weight forward while straightening the left leg that is behind you.
9. Now you have to bend your left foot strongly going on hugging the right foot to your upper arm.
10. Then you are supposed to do all the exercises on the other side.
A note for beginners: it is an advanced pose,so, beginners can stop at any point if the pose becomes too difficult.
A note for advanced: people often get stuck on step 7. In order to straighten the right leg behind you, it is very important to keep your head raised and the weight of the body moving forward.
Benefits: the pose helps increase arm, core strength and balance. Besides that it opens the hips.
Instructions for getting into Flying Crow Yoga Pose:
1. You should start with standing on the left leg.
2. Being in this position you are to remove the right foot from the inner left thigh and put your right ankle over the left knee instead of it.
3. Then you should bend forward and put the palms on the floor.
4. Now you are to bend your left leg on which you are standing.
5. Being in this position you should hook right foot toes around your upper left arm at the same time having your right foot strongly flexed. The toes must tightly hug the arm.
6. Then you should bend the elbows.
7. Now bring your body weight forward by raising the left foot off the floor and keeping the knee bent.
8. At the next step you should bring even more weight forward while straightening the left leg that is behind you.
9. Now you have to bend your left foot strongly going on hugging the right foot to your upper arm.
10. Then you are supposed to do all the exercises on the other side.
A note for beginners: it is an advanced pose,so, beginners can stop at any point if the pose becomes too difficult.
A note for advanced: people often get stuck on step 7. In order to straighten the right leg behind you, it is very important to keep your head raised and the weight of the body moving forward.