I would consider Tree Pose a better beginning balancing posture than Dancer, personally. I have good balance anyway, but even so I've noticed that the more I do it the easier Tree is. Before, I wouldn't fall out of it but my foot would sort of wobble. Now it stays pretty much rooted. My advice, which is true in both dance and yoga for balancing, is to have a good fixed point to focus on (a drishti). If you don't have obvious things to focus on at home, or if like me you do yoga without your glasses and are mostly blind, you can get a small colored sticker like people use for yard sales and stick it on your wall. Stare at that point and soften your gaze. Focus on grounding through all four corners of your foot. You also may find tree pose easier with arms extended and palms up than with hands at heart center.
Above all, don't stress about it. If you have to let your leg come down, then let it come down, recenter, and get back into it. This is how I overcame my difficulties in other areas, such as lunges and wheel pose (still can't even do that for more than two seconds). Do the pose in whatever easy, modified version you need (so Tree, for example, is going to be way easier than Eagle if you have balance issues; for me it was a matter of not lunging too low) and hold as long as you can. When you feel like you have to fall out, fall out. Keep breathing. If you need to take a moment after falling out to get back to your breath and come back to balance, do so. If you're doing an audio or video course and you just can't get back into that pose, wait for the next one, and breathe while you're doing so. It'll come in time :-)
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I would consider Tree Pose a better beginning balancing posture than Dancer, personally. I have good balance anyway, but even so I've noticed that the more I do it the easier Tree is. Before, I wouldn't fall out of it but my foot would sort of wobble. Now it stays pretty much rooted. My advice, which is true in both dance and yoga for balancing, is to have a good fixed point to focus on (a drishti). If you don't have obvious things to focus on at home, or if like me you do yoga without your glasses and are mostly blind, you can get a small colored sticker like people use for yard sales and stick it on your wall. Stare at that point and soften your gaze. Focus on grounding through all four corners of your foot. You also may find tree pose easier with arms extended and palms up than with hands at heart center.
Above all, don't stress about it. If you have to let your leg come down, then let it come down, recenter, and get back into it. This is how I overcame my difficulties in other areas, such as lunges and wheel pose (still can't even do that for more than two seconds). Do the pose in whatever easy, modified version you need (so Tree, for example, is going to be way easier than Eagle if you have balance issues; for me it was a matter of not lunging too low) and hold as long as you can. When you feel like you have to fall out, fall out. Keep breathing. If you need to take a moment after falling out to get back to your breath and come back to balance, do so. If you're doing an audio or video course and you just can't get back into that pose, wait for the next one, and breathe while you're doing so. It'll come in time :-)