Instructions
Sit with your legs stretched in front of you. Bend your left leg and place the sole of your foot against your right upper thigh. Flex your right foot.
Stretch your right hand toward your right foot with an exhale. Twist your palm to the right so that your thumb points down. Clasp onto the inner edge of the foot.
Twist your torso upward. Reach your left arm toward the sky with an inhale. Lower it behind your head with an exhale and grab hold of the outer edge of your foot. Gaze upward.
Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
Carefully release and untwist with an exhale. Change sides.
Alignment Cues:
Press bent leg toward floor
Press shoulder against knee
Twist torso toward sky
Stretch elbows away from each other
Modification:
Avoid this pose if you have knee injury.