Level up your puppy pose
Note 👉🏼 This is NOT the kind of puppy pose that I’ve shown you to prepare for pincha or headstand, for example. This is the variation that more prepares us for backbends. In the former, the focus is more on shoulders in line with our chests (I’ll usually cue “avoid sinking chest to the mat; pull ribs in”).
In the version I’m showing above, I’m allowing my chest to come through my shoulders, even taking my head and gaze up at times, to start to create that backward bend in my spine.
Neither is “better” than the other. It’s just good to know which you’re doing and why.✨
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