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Parivrtta Ashta Chandrasana A - Revolved Eight Crescent Moon A

ALIGNMENT

From Adho Mukha Svanasana, inhale, step your right foot between your hands, exhale here

Ground your left hand to the left of your right foot, place your right hand on your right knee

Inhale, lengthen up through the spine, exhale, twist to the right from the waist, reach your right arm up high, palm facing right

Broaden through the collarbones, stack your shoulders, bottom waist rolls forward top waist rolls back, gaze forward or to your right fingertips

Parivrtta Ashta Chandrasana B - Revolved Eight Crescent Moon B

ALIGNMENT

From Adho Mukha Svanasana, inhale, step your right foot between your hands, exhale here

Inhale, press into your feet to come up, lengthen up through your spine, bring your hands to prayer position in front of your chest, exhale, twist to your right from the waist, place your left elbow outside your right knee 

Press out through your left heel, firm your back leg, hug your outer hips to the midline

Press your hands together, stack your shoulders and open your chest to the right, bottom waist rolls forward top waist rolls back, gaze forward or over your right shoulder

Parivrtta Ardha Chandrasana - Revolved Half Moon

ALIGNMENT

From Virabhadrasana I, inhale, reach your left arm high, palm facing right, lengthen up through your spine, exhale, twist to your right from the waist, reach your left hand to a brick, or to the ground, a foot forward on the big toe side of your right foot

At the same time float your left leg up parallel to the ground, toes facing down, roll the inner thigh of your left leg up, press out through the heel

Reach your right arm up high, palm facing right, stack your shoulders. Bottom waist rolls forward, top waist rolls back, gaze forward or to your top fingertips

Parivrtta Parsvakonasana - Revolved Side Angle

ALIGNMENT

From Virabhadrasana I, bend your front knee, stack your front knee over your front ankle, step your back foot back slightly

Press your right thumb into your right hip crease to guide the hip back, inhale, reach your left arm high and lengthen through the waist

Exhale, hinge forward from the hip joint and twist to the right from the waist, lengthen the spine

Place your left hand to a brick, or to the ground, outside your right foot, reach your right arm over your ear

Bottom waist rolls forward, top waist rolls back, gaze under your upper arm