How to Adjust Flip Dog⎢Teach Yoga with Briohny Smyth

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flip dog or wild thing as opposed that has appeared in vinyasa flow and many different styles of classes over the past decade and adjusting it is something that I've experimented with because they think that the pose itself has some really great benefits to it nice and strengthening in the stand or in the suit in the arm that's on the ground it should work to open that shoulder as well and then the hip flexors in the side body of the arm that's up and over is where this adjustment is really going to work okay so again before with this as much as possible you want to find somebody who looks really integrated in their flip dog because coming to somebody and readjusting the flip dog and getting them into the right position is not something we can do that well during a class and you don't want to hurt someone with an adjustment okay so go ahead and take flip dog he's gonna come from down dog to plank to flip dog and with Hiro's body I'm gonna have you take the other side please with hero's body I know that he's pretty open so because somebody's really open I don't want to adjust them at their limit at their most open place so he backs off a little bit his shoulders look really integrated I come and I step behind him with my hip and I'll show you on the other side so you can see where I am and I just begin to take my hand right below his armpit on the side of his body as well as the other hand to route his other leg down and I draw them apart as I feel okay okay so again this hand's rooting this leg down and this hands reaching the other arm up and over okay other side now from the other side you'll see what I'm doing with my leg and I'm not on the shoulder blade I'm really just below the shoulder blades and he can lean back over me that feels okay and then from here I'm drawing I'm rooting his hip flexors down right and then reaching the other arm away from one another and it should depending on your body stretch anywhere from the hip flexor area maybe the quadricep all the way into the lats serratus and maybe even into the tricep okay and relax that one feels really nice as long as you choose the right student to do it with