Ruth Delahunty

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

Virabhadrasana II - Warrior II

ALIGNMENT

 

From Adho Mukha Svanasana, ground your left foot at a 45 degree angle. Inhale, step your right foot between your hands, check for front heel to back arch alignment, exhale here

Inhale, press into your feet to come up, open your hips to the side of your mat. Left hip naturally sits forward of your right hip, reach your arms out to shoulder height, palms facing down

Stack your front knee over your front ankle, working towards your front thigh being parallel to the ground

Lift your inner thighs, roll your outer left thigh down, hug your right hip in, gaze to your right fingertips

 

Viparita Virabhadrasana - Reverse Warrior

ALIGNMENT

From Virabhadrasana II, inhale, turn your right palm to face up and hinge to your left from your waist, reach your right palm up and over your ear

Rest your left hand on your left thigh or your lower calf, draw your navel towards your spine

Lengthen up through your right side body all the way to your fingertips, keep your right leg deeply bent, gaze up to your right fingertips