Pose of the week: Low Lunge

You will come across low lunge in a lot of yoga classes. Read below on how to get into the pose and watch the video here.

Instructions:

• Starting an all fours, step your right foot in between your hands, ensuring that your right knee is directly over your right ankle
• Hug your thighs together and move the weight off your hands and come onto your finger tips
• You can stay here or if you want to, inhale your arms over your head and come into a crescent lunge, ensuring that you release your shoulders away from your ears.

Tips on how to do it:

• Shoulders away from your ears
• Front Knee should be either directly over the front ankle or slightly behind it
• To improve balance practice this pose facing a wall. Press the big toe of the front foot against the wall and stretch your arms up, finger tips to the wall.

Things to avoid:

• Front knee in front of your front ankle
• Shoulders by your ears

Benefits:

• Strengthens the quadriceps and gluteus muscles
• Stretches the psoas and hips
• Relieves sciatica pain
• Expands your chest, lungs and shoulders
• Develops stamina and endurance in your thighs
• Improves your balance, concentration and core awareness
• Calms the mind

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