Downward Facing Dog Split

Instructions

• On an inhale, raise your right leg off the ground behind you.- Keep your hips level with one another as you lift the right leg. The hips should stay squared with the floor.- Continue releasing the left heel toward the floor. Try to keep an equal amount of weight in both your arms.

• Extend through the raised right heel and the crown of your head.- After holding the pose with the hips squared for several breaths, you can open the right hip, stacking it over the left hip. This will allow the right leg to come higher and give you a nice hip stretch. Although you are opening the hips, try to keep the torso from twisting to the left.

• In the open hips position, you can bend the right knee and let the right heel come toward your left buttock.- After several breaths, straighten the right leg and re-square your hips toward the floor.

• Release the right foot back to the floor. Take several breaths in downward dog and then repeat the sequence on the left side.