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Expand through the torso and your raised back leg, moving your shoulders away from your ears. These cues will help protect your students from injury and help them have the best experience of the pose:

When you straighten the front knee, imagine that the front calf is resisting forward against the shin this will prevent the knee from locking or hyperextending.

Energize your back leg and extend it strongly toward the wall behind you as you reach just as actively forward with your arms.

If the hip bone of your lifted leg raises during the pose, release that hip toward the floor until both hip points are even and parallel to the floor.

Hold for 5–10 breaths, then carefully bend your right knee and step back with your left foot, returning to Virabhadrasana I.

Tone your lower belly, and direct your tailbone toward your left heel to provide support for your lower back.

Push back with your left heel while extending forward with your arms, the crown of your head, and your sternum.

Continue to engage your right outer hip to provide stability for your standing leg.

Continue to turn your left inner thigh to the ceiling so your leg remains neutral and your pelvis is level.

Your upper arms frame your ears, and your head, torso, pelvis, and lifted leg to form a straight line.

Shift your weight into your front foot, and move forward as you lift your left leg until it is parallel to the floor.

Exhale and tilt your torso forward, and reach your arms out ahead.

Turn your left inner thigh toward the ceiling to roll your left outer hip forward, then pivot onto your back toes so your back leg is in a neutral position.

Energize your arms to draw more length into your side body.

Firm your right outer hip into your midline as you straighten your left leg.

Root down firmly with your right heel to lift your lower belly, drawing the abdominals in and up and releasing your tailbone down.

Begin in Virabhadrasana I (Warrior Pose I) with your right foot forward.

Warrior 3 Pose: Step-by-step instructions It also strengthens your shoulders and the muscles of your back. In addition to strengthening your standing ankle and legs, this balancing pose tones your abdomen and improves your posture.

It’s a resource you’ll return to again and again. The challenge of Warrior 3 is to keep the hips parallel to the floor, but when you do, you can really feel the strength of your standing leg.” - Yoga Journal senior editor Tamara Jeffriesīecome a member today to access Yoga Journal’s comprehensive Pose Library, which blends expert insights from top teachers with video instruction, anatomy know-how, variations, and more for 50+ poses, including Warrior 3. And, oh, the places you can go: Standing splits.

Why we love it: “Warrior 3 allows you so many entry points-from Warrior 1, from Tree, from a lunge, from Chair. Sanskrit: Virabhadrasana III ( veer-ah-bah-DRAHS-anna) Alternate between expansion and contraction, and treat both with equal importance. But don’t contract too much if you hang on too tightly, you will lose expansion-and likely your balance, too. “But if we expand outward too much, we lose our power and balance.”įocus on contracting, pulling in, and connecting with gravity, says Bender Birch. “Virabhadrasana III asks us to stand grounded on one leg, rooted down into the earth, yet at the same time to lift the other leg and stretch horizontally from the tips of our toes to our fingertips, like a radiant star expanding into space,” says Power Yoga creator Beryl Bender Birch. Virabhadrasana III (Warrior Pose 3) requires concentration and stamina to maintain a thoughtful calibration between push and pull-gathering energy in, and extending it out.

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