Practical Hint in Raised Arm Pose

Focus on extending through your ring finger in Urdhva Hastasana. This helps to gently extend from the waist up.

Other variations are

• having a block in between the palms, or
• a strap around the elbows.

It looks like an easy pose, but keeping everything aligned is actually quite a challenge. Key points in Urdhva Hastasana are:

• ground through your feet
• Calves move forward
• Knee Caps lift
• Inner thighs rotate backward
• Tailbone drops
• Extend both sides of the trunk equally
• Front ribs stay in
• Shoulders drop
• Throat relaxed
• Gaze relaxed

Wow - that's quite a list! Can you think of anything else?

On a side note :)

"I hint nothing happens. I hit everything happens." BKS Iyengar