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Headstand
Start by setting up your base: grab for opposite elbows. This is your shoulders’ width distance. Keep elbows grounded and interlace your hands in front of you, pinkies tucked in slightly.
Cradle your head in your hands, crown of the head on the mat. (About where your headphones would go) (The knuckles of your pinky fingers and maybe even your ring fingers should be touching the mat, while your palms are cupped to support the crown of your head.)
Next, walk your feet in towards your head. The weight should already be in your head as opposed to in your elbows. Weight in the elbows means your trapezius muscles will be working to keep you in place, and you’ll become exhausted sooner.
Engage your stomach and suck in your belly button so hips travel behind your head (tight hamstrings you can bend the knees, NO KICKING! It’s so much harder to kick! Tuck one knee into chest at a time and hold yourself in a ball off the floor. You can stay here and become stronger, working toward headstand)
Once you’re up, think hips forward, feet back. This feels like falling, but isn’t balance the humbling moment we realize we’re teetering on the edge of something unknown? We fear falling because it means failure. What if it was just another opportunity to learn something about how your body works? YOUR BODY WORKS. That’s beautiful in itself.