I’m still practicing to hold 🤦🏻‍♀️ how about you?.. . . Teacher @coloringyoga ・・・ 💛Eka Pada Galavasana is an arm balance that requires hip flexibility, core and shoulder strength. It can be challenging for many people but the technique you use to do the pose can make a big difference. Watch as i give you the scoop!💛 . . ⭕KEY POINTS 1. Two things are really going to help you with this pose: Getting your leg snug and high on your arms and getting your hips high. 2. Getting leg high on arms will give you a bigger shelf to balance. Also when you tip forward your hips will naturally be higher if leg is high on arms. 3. Tipping forward will also help get hips higher. The reason we want hips high is because we need to get the back leg up. If the hips are low it is much easier for the leg to stay low then pull the hips down too. When hips are high the leg will more easily follow. 4. Keep in mind you need to lean more forward in this pose than in many others. The reason for this is we need to counterbalance the back leg. Practice with a block (3rd slide) to get this concept. 5. Hip flexibility will help a lot. Pigeon pose, figure 4 stretch, happy cow face will all help give you the hip flexibility. 6. If you are tipping forward enough and have good flexibility, then strength is probably needed. Improve your crow, one leg chaturangas and other arm balances. The strength will come but you have to push yourself past what you are used to. Do one an extra set or try for longer hold times. 7. If you feel a lot of pain or bruising from this pose try engaging core more to get more lift. You dont want to rest tons of weight into arms and so to mitigate that youll need more lift in the core. This too comes with time.

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