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You want to make sure that you’re ready for a full backbend before you attempt a wheel
at home without assistance, it’s best to use this as opposed to learning in class.
And then to practice when you’re a more advanced level at home. Wheel, you bring your
hands onto the floor by your ears with the fingers pointing back towards the shoulders
and with the feet hip with the part, pressing down very strongly through the feet, and like
we did with bridge, you’re going to start the pose from the feet so you press down strongly
through your feet as you peel your spine off the floor one vertebrae at a time. And there’s
a point where you come about halfway up and you take the crown of the head and place it
on the floor. If you’re ready to go further you can push up by coming into full wheel,
continually pressing down through the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands and
letting the neck hang free. And when you’re ready to come down from the wheel pose, you
want to use the strength of the arms to lower yourself down very slowly and smoothly and
just like with bridge, coming down one vertebrae at a time. So rolling yourself as slowly as
possible back down onto the floor and this is a very nice pose to practice two or three
times in a row.