Hi! I am Dina Prioste and welcome to Get Exercised. When I first started practicing yoga and in classes everyone was just kicking up to the wall so easily and to a hand stand. I was like, what! I haven't been able to do that since I was a fearless little kid and for some reason as an adult it was just not happening.
But with lot's of practice and these few tests you are about to learn. I improved quite a bit. So grab a yoga strap and go to a wall. You can begin to build arm strength and core strength to get used to hand stand and practicing L shaped hand stand which we went over in episode 56. At this time instead of just staying in the alley you are going to alternate picking one side up and then the other like this. So this is a slippery wall, you may not be able to hold it so well here.
So taking a few breaths here. Oh, that's hard. Few breaths here. So practice that few times and you really get used to your weight being on the arms and shoulders and really engaging a core strength.
Now, if you can practice in kicking up to the wall and it seems like your leg is going nowhere near the wall you just can't get up, that was my problem at the beginning. I definitely recommend using a yoga strap. You are going to find that the strap keeps your arms stable and it's going to give you the strength to go up.
So make a loop with your strap about shoulder-width apart and make sure this loop is secure. So you have to bring the strap up just above your elbows, around the triceps, biceps here, and just give a little tug, make sure it's not going to move. So once you have the strap in place, just come a few inches away from the wall, maybe about five inches from the wall. Come to a short downward dog, and practice kicking up. So you are going to find that with the strap, your legs go up higher. Working out with the wall, just practice being upside down, pressing the hands into the floor, I did it, I did it, I did it...
Now I am at the point in my practice where I am starting to learn to balance away from the wall. So another trick that learned in a class is to use the top of the head as leverage to help balance against the wall so that way I can take the feet away. So let's try that.
So like before I dealt with your straps or not, maybe just a few inches away from the wall come to a short downward dog and kick up. From here I am going to take the top of my head to the wall, I could steady me, so I can bring the feet away. And I am flying, flying.
If you have any other ideas for getting in to handstand I certainly want to know about it, so please comment, put up the video response or e-mail me at dina@getexercised.com.
Next week I have got some holiday opening for you and until than thanks for watching, I am Dina Prioste and you have just been exercised and you could feel like that. You don't want that you don't want to --
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