Instructions
Sit with your legs extended in front of you. Bend your right knee and place your right foot outside your left thigh.
Bend your left leg and bring the left heel near your right hip, or keep it extended if more comfortable.
Place your right hand behind you for support. With an inhale, reach your left arm up.
With an exhale, twist to the right and place your left elbow outside your right knee.
Lengthen your spine with each inhale. Deepen the twist with each exhale.
Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
Return to center with an inhale. Change sides.
Alignment Cues:
Sit evenly on sit bones · Lengthen spine with inhale · Twist with exhale · Keep grounded hand close to spine · Press elbow into knee gently · Relax shoulders away from ears