Locust Pose variation
Locust pose - Salambhasana
Step by step:
- Lie on your stomach, arms by your side, palms facing your legs, your chin is on the floor, the part you can see when you look in the mirror.
- Fix your lower back on the floor by gently pressing your pubic bone into the floor, and by keeping your tailbone moving towards the pubic bone.
- Than exhale, pull your navel in towards the spine, inhale lift your head, chest and arms off the floor, firming your shoulderblades into your back, and so opening your heart. You can imagine someone someone holding your hands and pulling you back, to come up higher.
- In the first stage you can keep your legs on the floor. You could repeat this pose 3 times and the third time in the final pose, also raising your legs. You reach back through the balls of the feet, as much as reaching forward through the heart. Hold for about 40 seconds and build up from there.
- To come out on the exhalation release the body down.
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hi Esther! Im 16 and i really want to do yoga n its my first time can you mail back and give me some help on how to start-up… thank you x
Comment by shazia jasat Aug 28, 08, 1:56 pmHi Esther,
Just wondering how this version varies from the standard Locust pose? Thanks.
Comment by Joe Nov 07, 08, 11:28 amHi Joe,
Comment by Esther Nov 07, 08, 4:45 pmWith the standard version of locust pose you keep your forehead on the floor, you place your hands under the groins and you only lift the legs. Some yogi’s are even able to lift all of their body up, and rest only on their chin and arms.
Hope this answers your question,
Esther