Asana Kitchen: Nakrasana Learning Progression (Crocodile yoga pose) with David Garrigues

David will be teaching in Kovalam, India, December 8-February 14, 2020. You can attend for 1 week or all 10 weeks. He will also be teaching a special teachers track from Dec 26-Jan 19. All info is on his website, www.davidgarrigues.com
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In this Asana Kitchen video, certified Ashtanga teacher David Garrigues teaches the learning progression of Nakrasana, an arm balance in the Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga.
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Maintain your Chaturanga Dandasana Position and your entire body from head to feet in one continuous, unbroken Danda, staff. Each jump has 3 phases an anticipatory crouch, a spring into the air, and a landing. Perform each phase with your elbows fully bent-- before jumping, while in the air and landing. Through each phase make your thighs, pelvis, and belly extra firm work to feel strength and power emanating from your center especially when launching and landing. Focus on jump forward and back more than up.

KEYWORDS: ASHTANGA, MYSORE, SECOND SERIES, NADA SHODHANA, INTERMEDIATE SERIES, VINYASA, YOGA, DAVID GARRIGUES, ASANA KITCHEN, ARM BALANCE