While I am definitely starting to feel myself getting stronger overall, I still can’t seem to stay up for longer than about 2 seconds! Time to turn to the professionals…
This week I took my questions to the experts. I went to MA yoga studio downtown in Dragon Ally and interviewed three of their top instructors. These were my take home messages:
- Ground FIRMLY into your hands and use your fingers to grip the floor
- Ensure that your gaze and point of focus stays in between your hands – this will help with balance
- Externally rotate shoulders. Push up and out of scapula
- Engage EVERYTHING – core, glutes, legs..
- Flex feet as if you were standing on the ceiling
- Use a wall to get comfortable with the feeling of being upside down
- Practice every day and don’t get discouraged!
Looking forward to taking all of their advice to heart and applying these tips over the coming months.