May 2024
Lizard / Dragon
Utthan Pristhasana
From our teaching team · Jen Villegas
A posture that opens up your hips — and 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, so let's gooooooo. In Sanskrit: Utthan means to stretch out, Pristha means the page of a book, and Asana means pose. It works most obviously near the end of class, in the opening series of the sequence, but can also be cleverly worked in elsewhere. (Yin yoga calls it The Dragon Series.)
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