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Analytics: Chaturanga
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Sanskrit, Dandasanana
Benefits
Contraindications
Modifications #
- Builds core stability
- Strengthens arms & wrists
- Tones abdomen
-Wrist or shoulder injury
- High or low blood pressure
- Drop down to your knees for a low chaturanga.
Foundation
Alignment
Intention
Steps; From Plank Pose
- Both hands and all toes on both feet.
- Feet hip width apart.
- Elbows over heels of hand, elbows in toward body.
- Wrists and shoulders aligned.
- Chest forward.
- Pressing hands into the mat.
- Shoulders engaged (Not collapsing)
- Wrists & shoulders aligned with spider grip
- Begin to bend elbows and lower the body slowly.
- Body is one long line.
- Gaze forward, chest and heart forward.
- Elbows over heels of hands, coming in toward body.
- Shoulder blades engaged (Not collapsing)
- Engage core.
Engage Bandhas, Breath
Coming Out of the Pose
You can either come all the way down to the floor and rest or move into cobra , or you can hinge the body forward and move up into up dog pose.
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