Instructions
Sit with your legs stretched in front of you. Bend your right leg and place your heel close to your pelvis.
Pushing your hands into the floor, lift your hips and shift forward. Rest the center of your pelvis (the perineum) on your heel. Keep your foot flexed.
Turn your torso toward your left leg. Hold your left foot with both hands. Bend forward with an exhale, lowering your head toward your shin. Grab hold of your left wrist at the sole of your foot.
Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
Rise with an inhale, lift your pelvis up and sit back on the floor. Change sides.
Alignment Cues:
Foot flexed
Heel at perineum (center of pelvis)
Spine long
Leg straight
Torso facing extended leg
Modification:
Point the foot of your bent leg and shift your knee forward.