Dandasana / Staff pose

benefits:

• Strengthens the quads
• Improves core stability
• Strengthens the muscles of the back

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Staff pose / Dandasana

step by step instructions:

• Sit with your legs together and stretched out in front of you. If you find it hard to sit with a straight back, sit on a block or folded blanket. Place your hands next to the hips on the floor.
• Your feet are flexed, extending out through the heels. Pull your thighs up in your hips, the top of the thighbone (femur bone) descends to the floor. Actively press your sit bones into the floor and a little to the back, to help you sit straight, your spine lengthens, the lower back arches a little forward towards your belly.
• Open your chest by puling your shoulders back and down along the spine. The bottom of the shoulderblades curl in towards the chest. Keep your front ribs soft. Your neck is long.
• Check that your shoulders are over the hips and your ears in line with the shoulders.
• On an inbreath you can take your arms out and lift them overhead. if you feel your upper back rounding with your arms all the way up, lower your arms a bit so you can see them from the sides of your eyes, so you can maintain the length in the upper back.
• Stay in this position between the 5-15 breaths, you can really feel your core working to maintain this pose.

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Hi Everyone,

Everybody these days talks about core strength…  Follow these instructions and you will experience what core strength is, repeat these for a while at least 3 times per week, and you really get the benefits. you will feel stronger generally, your confidence goes up and back problems may disappear… definitely worth trying!

The poses I demonstrate in this sequence are:

staff pose / dandasana

side plank / vasisthasana

downward facing dog pose / adho mukha svanasana

half revolved belly pose / ardha jathara parivarttasana

dolphin pose

leg lifts

plank pose

Hi everyone,

Here I show you how to do seated forward bend or paschimottanasana. A very important pose that I would try and get into almost any routine. It calms you down and stretches the whole back of the body.

some other poses that I demonstrate here are:

staff pose / dandasana

seated forward bend / paschimottansana

inclined plane pose / purvottanasana

Esther