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Crow (Crane) Pose (Bakasana) is often the first arm balance that yoga beginners learn. It’s a good idea to know the basics of this pose as it’s the foundational pose for most yoga arm balances. Bakasana strengthens the wrists, forearms and upper arms while toning and strengthening the abdominal muscles and stretching the upper back and groin.

Sometimes it’s a strong adjustment that helps us feel new actions in our body, other times is a subtle touch that awakens a whole new world of experience. As a teacher, if you decide to adjust at all, knowing what is appropriate when, and how to do a stronger vs a subtle adjustment can be difficult. 💥Many teachers that adjust, have it backwards in my opinion: they adjust strong to force a student into a shape, meaning they push a student into their flexibility when gravity and the student are already doing that. I have been guilty of this in the past as well and feel it’s important we move forward as a community. Typically it’s more supportive and less injurious if you provide strong adjustments when a student is struggling with the strength against the weight of gravity. This may still increase the stretch so you must be mindful. For example you can see I give a strong adjustment in the beginning - this is to help @heff_patrick with shoulder strength, in down dog the shoulder have to work against gravity and the tension of the calf’s and hamstrings. So the big push helps the shoulders but also stretches the hamstrings more…so be mindful. Typically this posture is not enough of a stretch that it presents a high risk for injury, but still be sensitive. The subtle touch you are seeing toward the end is possible because we had already practiced these actions in multiple ways prior to getting to this moment. In @chromaticyoga we call this process “layering” providing repetition throughout a class so the student develops a deeper understanding of an action as they progress to more challenging postures. Are you a yoga teacher? Join us August 7-9th for the Teachers Toolkit. Not only will you learn adjustments but you will learn key skills as a teacher to help your students transform their practice. Details in my bio! Also 4th or July sale is now on! #yoga #yogaeverywhere #yogact #ctyoga #yogisofinstagram #yogiseeyogido #yogapractice #yogainspiration