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🤸‍♀️How to: Headstand🤸‍♀️ a mini training: Your prep positions are ✨essential✨ to get upside down successfully AND safely. Here’s why: ⁠ ⁠ There are so many elements that play a role in this pose: strong shoulders, flexibility in the back of the body, pushing through the elbows, getting your hips up and over... it can be overwhelming 😩 and drive you away from even giving Sirsasana A a try- so here’s what to do: ⁠ ⁠ 1. Pay attention to your set-up! Elbows a little bit narrower than your shoulders, hands together (this is just a personal preference), chin tucked. ⁠ 2. 🚫 No shoulder slouching 🚫 Once you lift your knees from the floor, push through your elbows and lift your shoulders. ⁠ 3. Don’t jump, WALK: Instead of jumping trying to get your feet up by 🚶‍♀️‍➡️walking🚶‍♀️your feet in close enough, to get your HIPS OVER your SHOULDERS. Stacking your body is what you want to achieve. ⁠ 4. Lastly, lift your feet. ⁠ ⁠ I break down poses like Headstands in my in-person training to teac...

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