Crescent Prayer Twist - The Yoga Collective -

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this is Crescent prayer twist beginning in Crescent pose take an inhale as your fingertips reach up toward the sky and as you exhale bring your hands to the center of your chest in prayer pause at the top keep your legs exactly as they are your right thigh descending toward the mat and your back left thigh pressing up toward the sky pausing with your shoulders over your hips take an inhale and then as you exhale start to wrap your right ribs Back start to wrap your left ribs forward so you sense that the twist truly originates in the center of the body working the transverse abdominals and the side obliques keeping the spine long is one of our intentions when we twist so from a place of length take an inhale at the top as the crown of the head reaches for the sky and as you exhale start to lean forward placing the left elbow to the outside edge of the right knee The Palms actively press together now one of the first things we tend to do when we twist is collapse down into the pose we'd like to encourage height and an up lift M up and away from the mat so sense the left palm pressing up into the right palm sense the collar bone spreading wide and as the elbows stack rotate the Gaze up and over the right elbow toward the ceiling above continue to draw the shoulders down the back and notice if you've lost the left thigh continue to lift the left hip away from the mat as you drop the right thigh down toward the floor sending energy out back through the left heel take one more deep inhale to sit sit deep pause through the exhale and then on the inhale Circle the arms back up toward the sky Crescent pose deep breath at the top this is Crescent prayer twist