So let's go ahead now and continue into Ustrasana, Camel Pose. Let me show you the classical way of doing this posture. And then what we're going to do is break up the posture and take other ways that will assist you in finding the opening of the chest, and other ways of finding more stability in the posture. The first thing you'll do is pick up your sticky mat and fold it in half a couple of times and place it on the floor. So again, this is the final classical completed posture. So what we'll do now is use a couple of blocks and then I'll show you the completed pose. I'm trying to take you step by step. Have the two blocks the side by the feet and bring the shins to your mat. Take the tops of the feet strongly down, tops of the feet and the shins on to the mat. So bring one leg down at a time. Next step that is very important in this posture is to roll from the outer thighs towards the inner thighs. This is sometimes called an internal rotation or inner sparling. So this action, when you take this action, the buttocks will slightly lean back. Then the next thing, what I was pointing to earlier, in the standing posture, we want to take the buttocks down, tail bone down, feel the toning through the abdomen. Here, same actions we'd been taking up to now, rolling the shoulders back, and slightly tipping the trunk slightly back and then going down, making sure your blocks are there and stable, bringing the hands to the blocks, turning the fingertips out, lifting the chest, puffing the chest out and bringing the head back. So this is Ustrasana with the help of blocks. The classical posture is done without blocks, is taking the hands back behind you as we did earlier in the warm up, rolling the shoulders back, pelvis slightly back, thighs rolling in, and bringing the fingertips to the heels, keeping that lift to the chest, taking the head back. Now as we do this posture, it is important also to remember that the shoulder blades must be supporting you in the pose. We do that quickly one more time. Remember that the back of the body, the shoulder blades support you, lift you upward.
Advanced Yoga Poses strasana Yoga Pose
So let's go ahead now and continue into Ustrasana, Camel Pose. Let me show you the classical way of doing this posture. And then what we're going to do is break up the posture and take other ways that will assist you in finding the opening of the chest, and other ways of finding more stability in the posture. The first thing you'll do is pick up your sticky mat and fold it in half a couple of times and place it on the floor. So again, this is the final classical completed posture. So what we'll do now is use a couple of blocks and then I'll show you the completed pose. I'm trying to take you step by step. Have the two blocks the side by the feet and bring the shins to your mat. Take the tops of the feet strongly down, tops of the feet and the shins on to the mat. So bring one leg down at a time. Next step that is very important in this posture is to roll from the outer thighs towards the inner thighs. This is sometimes called an internal rotation or inner sparling. So this action, when you take this action, the buttocks will slightly lean back. Then the next thing, what I was pointing to earlier, in the standing posture, we want to take the buttocks down, tail bone down, feel the toning through the abdomen. Here, same actions we'd been taking up to now, rolling the shoulders back, and slightly tipping the trunk slightly back and then going down, making sure your blocks are there and stable, bringing the hands to the blocks, turning the fingertips out, lifting the chest, puffing the chest out and bringing the head back. So this is Ustrasana with the help of blocks. The classical posture is done without blocks, is taking the hands back behind you as we did earlier in the warm up, rolling the shoulders back, pelvis slightly back, thighs rolling in, and bringing the fingertips to the heels, keeping that lift to the chest, taking the head back. Now as we do this posture, it is important also to remember that the shoulder blades must be supporting you in the pose. We do that quickly one more time. Remember that the back of the body, the shoulder blades support you, lift you upward.