Half Moon Yoga Pose - Ardha Chandrasana
Type of yoga pose: standing, balancing.
Benefits: this yoga pose strengthens your ankles and thighs and also improves your balance.
Instructions for doing this yoga pose:
1. At first you need to soften your right knee and put your left hand on the hip.
2. Then you should put your right hand on the floor about a foot in front of the right foot. Your fingertips should be on the floor.
3. Afterwards you are to straighten your right leg and simultaneously lift up your left leg.
4. Now you should open the hips, stacking the left hip on top of the right one.
5. Afterwards you have to straighten the left leg and put it parallel to the floor, flexing the left foot with the toes that should face forward.
6. When you feel balanced on your right leg, you should lift the left arm up towards the ceiling, open the chest and make a straight line with the right and left arms.
7. Finally, you need to bring your look up towards the left fingertips.
8. Then you should repeat all these yoga exercises on the left side.
A note for beginners: it is better for you to put a block under the right hand. It is easier to do this pose near a wall and bring the left foot to the wall when you lift up the left leg.
A note for advanced: you can bring your right hand a few inches off of the floor.
Benefits: this yoga pose strengthens your ankles and thighs and also improves your balance.
Instructions for doing this yoga pose:
1. At first you need to soften your right knee and put your left hand on the hip.
2. Then you should put your right hand on the floor about a foot in front of the right foot. Your fingertips should be on the floor.
3. Afterwards you are to straighten your right leg and simultaneously lift up your left leg.
4. Now you should open the hips, stacking the left hip on top of the right one.
5. Afterwards you have to straighten the left leg and put it parallel to the floor, flexing the left foot with the toes that should face forward.
6. When you feel balanced on your right leg, you should lift the left arm up towards the ceiling, open the chest and make a straight line with the right and left arms.
7. Finally, you need to bring your look up towards the left fingertips.
8. Then you should repeat all these yoga exercises on the left side.
A note for beginners: it is better for you to put a block under the right hand. It is easier to do this pose near a wall and bring the left foot to the wall when you lift up the left leg.
A note for advanced: you can bring your right hand a few inches off of the floor.