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So to go from Warrior II to Side Angle or Parsvakonasana is a totally different orientation.
As I've mentioned before, in Warrior II you're squeezing everything together and keeping
everything flowing upright. And there's a real separation between the lower body and
the upper body. Lower body is really squeezing, upper body is just really floating, dancing,
doing whatever it wants. In the side angle, you can connect straight through from the
heel to the crown and by extension through the arm. So you have to let go and open the
root a little bit and release a little bit through the pelvis and drop down. So from
a prana flows going up, press with the foot, shift the pelvis, reach the hand down and
we'll go out through the crown of the head. Bend the elbow. Now, I put a block here because
I don't want my hand to go down, as much as I want my pelvis to go down. But keeping the
hand up a little bit, I have a better shot of dropping the pelvis down. Then we take
the arm over and feel that prana flow; ankle, foot, shoulder, hand all along with the front
of the body.