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Balancing Postures

Benefits: help to foster a lightness and agility as well as endurance.  Muscle tone increases and coordination and concentration improved. 

Cautions: Pay attention to the placement of your hands – creases of the wrist should be horizontal to the wall (means pressure is even on inner and outer wrist).  Spread your fingers out as far as possible to ensure broadest base.  Go slow!  Use the wall actively not passively.  Focus on wrist preparation, shoulder preparation and leg preparation. 

Hero’s Pose  
Virasana

Cat/Cow Pose
Chakravakasana

Wrist Strengthening and Stretches

Standing Cat/Cow – pelvis talk – deepen groin, block between legs, knees bent

Wall Dog/ Wall Dolphin Dog

Spinx Pose (forearm Cobra)
Bhujangasana

Eagle Pose 
Garudasana

Sun Salutation
Surya Namaskar

Tree Pose  
Vrksasana

Half Moon Pose    
Ardha Chandrasana

Warrior III – hands onto back of chair
Virabhadrasana III

Sage Pose (Side Plank Pose)
Vasisthasana

Extended hand to foot thumb (big toe) pose
Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana I

Lord of the Dance or Cosmic Dancer Pose
Natarajasana

East Side Stretch Pose and Table Top Pose
Purvottanasana

Crane Pose
Bakasana

Handstand Pose mini-jumps
Adho Mukha Vrksasana (downward facing tree pose)

Corpse Pose
Savasana

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