Title
Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
Description
- Standing with your feet together at the front of your mat, lift and spread your toes while rooting firmly into the inner edges of the balls of your feet, feeling with this action the balanced lifting of your inner arches, or “Pada Bandha.”
- Maintaining Pada Bandha while firmly rooting your feet in the Earth, feel the rebounding effect of the musculauture in your legs gathering in and up.
- Firming your thighs and lightly spiraling your inner upper thighs back, explore placing your hands on the top of your hips to find a feeling of pelvic neutrality – hips level, spine growing naturally out of your pelvis.
- Breathing smoothly and steadily, with each inhale keep rooting your feet and engaging your thigh muscles while growing taller through your spine, expanding across your heart center and extending energetically out the crown of your head.
- With relaxed engagement, try to maintain that extension and spaciousness as you slowly exhale, feeling a sense of renewed stability and ease as your breath flows out.
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