Instructions
Stand with your feet hip distance wide and parallel. Bend forward from your hips with an exhale. Lengthen your torso as you come down.
Hook your big toes with your thumbs and first two fingers. Press your toes into your fingers. Lift halfway and lengthen your torso with an inhale.
Fold deeply with an exhale, widening your elbows. Let your head hang.
Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
Release your toes. Lengthen your spine with an inhale and rise to standing.
Alignment Cues:
Hamstrings relaxed
Press toes down while pulling fingers up
Lift sitz bones toward sky
Bend elbows to sides
Engage lower belly
Legs straight
Modification:
Hold on to a strap looped under the soles of your feet.