Saturday 10:30a Intro: Week 6 (Apr 11, 2009)

Focus of class on keeping weight evenly distributed on the feet, the legs and keeping the torso centered and lifted and/or long.

1. Tadasana

2. Virabhadrasana 2
3x;
3rd time move into...

3. Utthita Parsva Konasana
2x;
2nd time move into...

4. Utthita Trikonasana
Then back to Parsva Konasana;

5. Uttanasana
2x;
1st: Hold elbows and hang;
Most students hanging buttocks back behind line of heels - take weight into toe mounds to even weight distribution;
2nd: Hands down to bricks;

6. Utthita Trikonasana
2x;

7. Padangusthasana
2x; use belt around big toes to pull up;
1st: concave back;
2nd: head down, elbows out to sides to lengthen side chest down;

8. Adho Mukha Svanasana
3x; hands/thumbs & index fingers at wall;
2nd: bricks between upper thighs to get leg action;

9. Halasana
Feet to chair seat;

10. Salamba Sarvangasana

11. Savasana