Utkatasana - Chair

ALIGNMENT

From Tadasana with your feet hip width or feet together, inhale, reach your arms up high

Exhale, bend your knees and sit back like you’re sitting into a chair, pressing into your heels

Press the top of the thigh bones down towards your heels, inner thighs lifted

Broaden through the collarbones, arms shoulder width apart or palms together, gaze forward or to your fingertips

Parivrtta Utkatasana - Revolved Chair

ALIGNMENT

From Utkatasana, feet together, bring your hands to prayer position in front of your chest

Inhale, lengthen up through your spine, exhale, twist to your right from the waist, place your left elbow outside your right knee

Press your hands together to widen your collarbone, stack your shoulders and open your chest to the right, forearms stacked

Lengthen up through your spine to the tip of your crown, gaze forward or over your right shoulder

Uttanasana - Forward Fold

ALIGNMENT

From Tadasana, exhale, fold forward from the hip joint, lengthen through your spine

Hands to your shins, or hands to the ground in front of you, or beside your feet

Press your heels into the ground, lift your sit bones up

Inhale, lengthen up through your spine to the tip of your crown, exhale fold a little more

Broaden through the collarbones, gaze to your shins

Padangusthasana - Big Toe Forward Fold

ALIGNMENT

From Tadasana, exhale, fold forward from the hip joint, lengthen through your spine

Grip your big toe with your first two fingers. Press your fingers into the top of your big toe, and your big toe into your fingers, lift your sit bones up

Inhale, lengthen up through your spine to the tip of your crown, exhale bend your elbows out to the sides and fold forward, gaze to your shins

Padahasthasana - Hands Under Feet Forward Fold

ALIGNMENT

From Tadasana, exhale, fold forward from the hip joint, lengthen through your spine

Place your hands, palms facing up, under your feet, toes touching the wrist creases

Press your feet down into your hands and your hands up into your feet, lift your sit bones up

Inhale, lengthen up through your spine to the tip of your crown, exhale bend your elbows out to the sides and fold forward, gaze to your shins