Half Frog Pose – Yoga Diary
- Starting within the Sphinx pose, urgent down with all ten toenails, twisting your inside thighs towards the ceiling, and tightening your outer ankles at your midline.
- Keep your left elbow in entrance of your left shoulder and transfer your hand in order that your fingers are pointing at your proper wrist and your forearm is diagonal.
- Press down together with your left forearm to roll your left shoulder up and up off the ground.
- Extend your sternum away out of your navel and widen your collarbones to elevate and open your chest.
- Place your proper hand subsequent to your decrease ribs together with your fingers pointing ahead and your shoulder at elbow degree as in Chaturanga Dandasana (four-bar posture).
- Bend your proper knee and level your foot in your proper buttocks. Keep your proper knee in your heart line.
- Keeping the Chaturanga form, place your proper hand in your proper foot together with your fingers nonetheless pointing ahead.
- Gently press down together with your proper hand whereas shifting your proper heel towards the surface of your buttocks.
- To deepen the stretch in your quadriceps, decrease your tailbone and lift your proper knee at will.
- Keep lifting your chest and tuck your left shoulder again and up.
- Hold for five–10 breaths, then launch. Repeat on the opposite aspect.