Poses – Wild Thing
WILD THING
CAMATKARASANA
- Begin in Plank with your shoulders stacked directly over your wrists. Bring your big toes to touch and walk your right hand in to the center of your mat.
- Bring your weight into your right hand, roll onto the outer edge of your right foot, and extend your left arm straight up toward the ceiling to come into Side Plank (Vasisthasana). Keep your feet stacked on top of one another and your hips lifted.
- From Side Plank, step your left foot back behind you with the left knee bent and place the ball of your left foot on the ground.
- Begin to soften your shoulder blades and allow your upper back to curl into a backbend. Extend your lifted arm forward and down and allow the head and neck to hang softly.
- Press down through the feet and the right hand to find more buoyancy in the hips
- Begin to send your gaze back to the center of your mat and step back to Plank.
One poetic translation of Camatkarasana means “the ecstatic unfolding of the enraptured heart.”And, there’s no coincidence that we chose Kat’s expression of this posture for the pose of the month. Check out Kat’s classes on Wednesdays at 6PM, and you’ll feel what we feel just from this photo.