Yoga Secrets: Downdog
Yoga Teacher Training Material - Winter 2018 • 3m 49s
Down Dog - In this video of our secret alignment hacks series we'll be joined by Brittany as she shows us her downward facing dog yoga pose. This is a downward facing dog tutorial for beginners. This video will show you some micro adjustments that you can do in order to improve your down dog yoga pose to make them work better! The downward facing dog or adho mukha svanasana is one of those yoga poses that people have a lot of questions about.
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Down dog releases tension in your spine, stretches your hamstrings and calves and strengthens your upper body.
It‘s the anchoring posture of most classes, so you want to get it right.
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