Staff Yoga Pose - Dandasana
Type of yoga pose: seated.
Benefits: it helps to strengthen your legs and improve alignment.
This yoga pose is the basic seated pose. All the other poses originate from it.
Instructions for getting into this yoga pose:
1. You should sit down and outstretch your legs straight in front of yourself.
2. Then you are to engage your thigh muscles and flex your feet. Your heels can come up off the floor.
3. Now you have to make your spine long.
4. Finally stack your shoulders directly on top of your hips.
A note for beginners: you can put a padding under your sit bones if it is helpful for you.
A note for advanced: you can consider this pose to be easy, but if you are really working hard on the thighs, you can have sweat.
Benefits: it helps to strengthen your legs and improve alignment.
This yoga pose is the basic seated pose. All the other poses originate from it.
Instructions for getting into this yoga pose:
1. You should sit down and outstretch your legs straight in front of yourself.
2. Then you are to engage your thigh muscles and flex your feet. Your heels can come up off the floor.
3. Now you have to make your spine long.
4. Finally stack your shoulders directly on top of your hips.
A note for beginners: you can put a padding under your sit bones if it is helpful for you.
A note for advanced: you can consider this pose to be easy, but if you are really working hard on the thighs, you can have sweat.