Urdhvamukhasvansasana, or Upward Facing Dog

This pose is the best way to wake you up! 🐕🐩🐶 It is good for everybody, but it’s especially good for women as it tones our arms in the same way that yesterday’s pose tones the abdomen. We need our triceps, ladies! You just don’t even want to be walking around looking like this🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️! Upward Facing Dog is really important because it gets you ready for all of the fancy backbends like #urdhvadhanurasana or #wheelpose and beyond; in fact, getting the shoulders back and chest lifted, with rock-solid legs as I show is the photo, is the only safe way to practice wheel. You have to cultivate your strong regions — the buttocks, hamstrings, abdomen — for backbending. Otherwise, you sink into your low back and cause problems all over, mostly for the low back but elsewhere, too.

For #smooththeslump, you can take one look at Urdhva Mukha Svansasana and see how it reverses #techneck etc. Try it this week with blocks in any of your yoga classes — you’re 100% guaranteed to do it if you go to a #flow #vinyasa class! 😁 Let me know how it goes! Stretch the big toes back! Press the kneecaps up, sacrum down.☑️