Standing Warrior Poses in Hatha Yoga

"MARCELLE LEE: Now, let's begin stretching and doing some yoga postures. This series is called the warrior series. Because you want to be nice and strong, feel like a warrior, and feel like you can do anything in the world, okay. So, once again, breathing, posture and alignment play a very big part in this. Okay, we're going to start, and we're going to open the feet up wider than the hips. Now, since we started, we want to squeeze abs, buttocks, tuck hips under. We want the shoulders up, shoulders back, shoulders down back. We're going to open the arms, now when you open the arms, not above the shoulders. Open the arms a little bit below the shoulders, strong arms, good. Hips are tucked under. We're going to turn one foot out to the side, and keep the hips face front. We're going to move the rib cage, just the rib cage stretching, stretching, stretching that rib cage, hips are tucked under, abs and buttocks are working, lower back is strengthening, look at your front fingers, and breathe. So, once we're in this position, nice, deep breathes."