Forward Fold Yoga Pose

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Summary: Online yoga lessons start here! Learn the advanced yoga forward fold pose in this free video.

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Forward Fold Yoga Pose

Our next pose will be forward fold. Forward fold looks easy but actually very challenging for most of us. You want to come to a point where you are standing with your feet hip width apart - several inches apart, and the outer edges of your feet lined up with one another. So the big toes are a little bit closer together than the inside of your heels. Lifting your toes and spreading your toes to the soles of your feet on the floor. And then you can either keep your toes lifted for this forward bend or you can sit them down to help keep your balance. Making sure that the knees are not locked, so the legs are strong, the quadriceps is pulling up toward the hips so if you lock the knees you lose the pull of the quadriceps toward the hips. So you want to make sure that your knees are unlocked and you may even want to start with your knees bent, either option is fine. And then, bringing your arms up overhead, and then folding forward from the waist. Again, you can do this with your knees bent, it looks like this so it looks almost the same, but your knees are bent so it allows you to stretch the back rather than the back and the hamstring at the same time. And once you’re in your forward fold you can always clasp opposite elbows, or you can let the hands rest on the floor, or you can lift your toes and step on the palms of your hands so that your toes are right at the wrist crease and from here if you can just release the head down so you’re relaxed at the neck, and stay here for several breaths. When it’s time to come out of your forward fold, bend your knees in and slowly rolling up, coming up to stand.