Adho Mukha Vrksasana - Handstand

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ALIGNMENT

Using a wall for support if needed. Place your hands on your mat shoulder width apart, wrists parallel. Press down evenly through your hands, root down through your arms and lengthen upwards

Stack your shoulders over the heels of your hands, gaze to the ground between your hands. Walk your feet in, bend your left leg, lift your right foot and flex out through the heel

Spring your legs up overhead, extend your feet up high, firm your legs and hug your outer hips to midline, press through the balls of your feet

To come down, lower your left leg down and follow with your right leg

Supta Padangusthasana - Reclined Hand to Big Toe

ALIGNMENT

Lie on your back, inhale, bend both knees, feet together on the ground

Exhale, draw your right knee into your chest, grip your big toe with your thumb and first two fingers. Reach your right leg up, press your big toe up into your fingers and your fingers down into your big toe

Draw the top of the thigh bone into its socket and work towards extendingyour leg in the direction of your head

Stay here, or for a stronger stretch, lengthen your left leg out on the ground, press the thigh into The ground