Working Toward Urdhva Dhanurasana | Week 1
Warm up your spine, shoulders and hips with Surya Namaskar. Standing poses like Trikonasana open your hips with a focus on moving your back leg to open your back leg hip flexors. Virabhadrasana I also focuses on lifting your belly and opening your back leg hip flexors. Shirshasana prep will strengthen your shoulders and help decompress your spine. Setu Bandha Sarvangasana gets you into a supported backbend and again opens your hip flexors. Then increase the mobility and openness in upper back and shoulders with active backbends over a blocks.
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