Sun Salutation B

Question 1

Chair Pose
Utkatasana
(Oot-kah-tahs-ana)

Answer 1

INHALE

1. Bend your knees
2. Lift the chest
3. reach your arms up rotating palms to face each other

Deepeners:

• Shift weight into heels and sit back
• draw tailbone back and down
• draw the shoulders down

Question 2

Chair Pose with Airplane arms

Answer 2

EXHALE

1. Lean and fly–sweep the arms back
2. Roll shoulders down palms face the floor
3. Sit the hips down and back

Deepeners:

• Squeeze the thighs together
• lift your chest
• engage the triceps

Question 3

Transition Before Crescent lunge

Answer 3

Inhale chair pose, exhale forward fold, inhale halfway lift, exhale high to low push up, inhale downward dog, exhale downward dog, inhale lift right leg, exhale bring it forward to low lunge

Question 4

Crescent Lunge
Anjaneyasana
(on-jah-nee-ahs-ana)

Answer 4

INHALE

1. Keep the back heel lifted all 10 toes forward
2. Lift chest toward the front of the room
3. Sweep your arms up, biceps facing ears

Deepeners:

• Keep the feet hip width distance apart
• press through the back heel
• square the hips
• draw shoulders down

Question 5

Warrior Two

Answer 5

EXHALE

1. Spin the back heel down, knees and toes go in the same direction
2. Open the chest to the —-
3. Extend arms out in opposite directions at shoulder height

Deepeners:
- Press through the knife edge of back foot
-lengthen the spine, draw the tailbone down,
draw the shoulder blades down

Question 6

Sculpt Reverse Warrior

Answer 6

INHALE

1. Keep front foot stacked over your ankle
2. Keep shoulders stacked over hips
3. Reach front arm to the sky, wrist stacked over shoulder and bring back arm to hip

Deepners:

• Press through your feet
• Square your shoulders to the side
• Really reach the front arm up stretching through the side