A yoga instructor shows three hands-on assists for Prasarita Padottanasana C, a wide-legged forward fold. The third assist, called the "juicy" one, uses the instructor's leg inside the student's legs with a coordinated inhale-lengthen and exhale-pull to deepen the stretch safely.
Here's 3 different ways that I do assists in Prasarita Padottanasana C. You're going to bring your leg in and bring your hand onto their hips so that they can lean forward onto your leg while being nice and stable. Next assist, I bring my legs onto her upper thigh and squeeze, and I can bring one hand onto the hip, other hand onto her hands. I'm not putting any pressure there, it's just real light so that she's aware of that, and that naturally makes her want to come deeper into this posture. The most juicy assist that I do in this posture is I'll come and bring one leg inside of her legs, bring my hands onto her hips. Inhale, lengthen. Exhale, pull, while at the same time I'm pushing on her hips. How you doing? Good. That's a really deep one, and you want to make sure you have good conversation with your student while you're doing it. See if you can slowly get out. And also, if you'd like to learn more about how to do hands-on assists, make sure that you check out my online adjustments and assist course. But if you'd
