Balancing Poses

[ailelie]

Hello, this is my first time posting here. I found out about this community through rydra_wong . I recently started my practice and am fumbling my way through a weekly class and am trying to get started at home (I have a mat now).

This week we did balancing poses in my class. I had a lot of trouble staying balanced and often had to start over. I was wondering if anyone here had any advice on keeping balanced or good poses to practice at home. Or, even just in general, what are your favorite balancing poses and how did you overcome any problems that you faced (whether keeping balanced or something else entirely)?

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[muck_a_luck]

In this post, at the bottom, you will find a couple of nice resources on how balancing poses work.

Of course, if your problem is not balance, but opening your shoulders, there are ways to work on that, as well. This is a nice sequence I found on YouTube.

In Dancing Shiva, you could try the simplier variation that does not involve taking your foot with both hands. Instead, extend forward, palm up, the arm on the same side as the lifted leg , grasping the foot with only one hand. Open out, keeping the hand level with the foot. This variation is illustrated here. CorePower instruction on YouTube, in case this is helpful.

[ailelie]

Thank you for the links. I will definitely try that variation to see if it helps me out.