Four-Limbed Staff Yoga Pose
Type of yoga pose: arm balance.
Benefits: this pose allows to make your arms, wrists and abdomen stronger. It also allows to prepare for more challenging arm balances.
This pose is like a push-up. Its great advantage is strengthening the arms.
Instructions for doing this yoga pose:
1. From Plank position, you need to bend your arms straight back while keeping your upper arms so that they were hugging your sides.
2. Then you should lower down towards the floor. When your forearms and upper arms are at a right angle, you are to stop.
3. You have to keep the whole of your body straight.
4. The next step is pushing back into your heels.
5. Then you have to roll over your toes getting into Upward Facing Dog pose.
A note for beginners: you should stand on the floor with your knees until you have enough strength to support your body with the arms.
A note for advanced: you should the pose before you into Up Dog. If you have tried practicing Plank pose with one leg at a time lifted, you can try moving into this pose keeping your leg lifted.
Benefits: this pose allows to make your arms, wrists and abdomen stronger. It also allows to prepare for more challenging arm balances.
This pose is like a push-up. Its great advantage is strengthening the arms.
Instructions for doing this yoga pose:
1. From Plank position, you need to bend your arms straight back while keeping your upper arms so that they were hugging your sides.
2. Then you should lower down towards the floor. When your forearms and upper arms are at a right angle, you are to stop.
3. You have to keep the whole of your body straight.
4. The next step is pushing back into your heels.
5. Then you have to roll over your toes getting into Upward Facing Dog pose.
A note for beginners: you should stand on the floor with your knees until you have enough strength to support your body with the arms.
A note for advanced: you should the pose before you into Up Dog. If you have tried practicing Plank pose with one leg at a time lifted, you can try moving into this pose keeping your leg lifted.