This is one of my favorite poses. It is super basic but so fundamental. It can teach you everything you ever needed to know about yoga from just this one pose. You start with a nice wide stance and what that means is that your feet, depending on how long your legs are, are four to five feet apart from each other. Another way to know is when you sweep your arms out you want the wrists to come more or less over the ankles so go ahead and sweep your arms out and check out your stance then spread your toes, spread your toes nice and wide and as the toes spread out push down into the four corners of your feet and draw energy up your legs. Do the same with your hands and your arms now. Spread your fingers and from opening up draw more energy and power into your body. You can even feel the shoulder blades move into the upper back. Then from this deep connection arms and legs moving into the core, from this deep connection extend outward through the bones so that the arms float on the breath, the legs root into the Earth and even the head and the neck lengthen toward the sky. You just feel that this pose brings about so much freedom, even really stability through the legs but so much freedom and openness and from inside of yourself you can enjoy more. Take a few more full breaths and then inhale and you can release your arms and step back to the center.