How To: Reverse Warrior Pose (Viparita Virabhadrasana) | Tips & Modifications

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hey y'all Nico here welcome back to my channel and if you're new here thanks for joining me I'm Nico today's video is another yoga pulse tutorial where I show you how to get into different yoga poses and today we're working on vaporizo virabadrasana or reverse Warrior I use reverse warrior in a lot of my classes it's great for opening the front body strengthening the legs and opening up the hips so let's go ahead and get started so we'll start in a standing position and step this left toe back and rotate the back heel down flat so make a nice line from the front heel to the inside arch of the back foot or you may be heel to heel will bend into the right knee aligning the right knee over the right ankle and then we'll stretch our arms out wide for Warrior Two so from here we'll flip our right palm upward this left leg will very lightly this left hand will very lightly rest on the left leg and we'll start to scoop our right arm up and back so let your gaze follow your right arm as it reaches up and behind you this left hand will slide down the left leg and if you can let your gaze follow this right hand if it doesn't feel comfortable to look up towards his right hand go ahead and look down towards the back foot to help you get a little more stability and also to protect your neck so this left side we should be able to lift it off of our leg we're not bearing all of our weight on the left hand make sure you're pressing down through the four corners of that front foot to give you a nice strong base inhale and the X and we'll come back to worry too then exhale good so let's try the other side so step our right foot back this time rotate the back heel down flat this back foot is either parallel with the back edge of your mat or turned in slightly we have a line from the front heel to the inside arch of the back foot or your heels might be lined up if that feels better for you so bend it to the left knee align the left knee over the left ankle arms are out wide then we'll lower this right hand down left palm comes upward make sure you're pressing down through the four corners of that front foot start to lift the left arm up and back so your core will be nice and engaged here right hand is gently resting on this back leg so we should be able to lift it off the ground gaze can follow this left hand or you can look down towards the right foot so as you're reaching let's try to extend through the arms so you don't need to curve your arm keep your arms straight and extend it and your firmness and natural curve with your body good inhale exhale arms come back out wide toward your two step back to the top of our mat okay guys that was our reverse Warrior tutorial leave a comment down below letting me know what pose you would like me to do a tutorial on next don't forget to check the link in my description Box about joining my channel as a member there's also a link for black Yogi Nico money merch and the link to my DJ Channel don't forget to like share and as always thank you for watching peace and love