A yoga teacher breaks down Ardha Uttanasana, the halfway forward fold, with step-by-step cues: raise your arms on an inhale, fold forward on an exhale, then place your hands on your shins and lift your gaze to lengthen the spine. The pose appears in Sun Salutation flows.
Ardha Uttanasana is Uttanasana's half cousin. If you know your Sanskrit, you'll get that joke. When I'm teaching Ardha Uttanasana, I take a deep inhale, raise the arms to the sky, exhale and fold forward. We're going to inhale, bring our hands onto the shins, look up and lengthen the spine. Now we're into our Ardha Uttanasana. Spread the toes wide, ground down through the earth, let the spine be nice and long. Hands can be onto the shins. Hands can be onto the feet, hands can be next to the feet if we're going for a more traditional look here. This posture is typically part of Surya Namaskar A and Surya Namaskar B flows. If you're looking to become a certified yoga teacher, you want to do that online, and you want private one-on-one instruction, check out my online yoga teacher trainings and light up the follow button so I see you in the next video.
