Vasisthasana - Side Plank Pose

By Cyndi Lee

From Downward Dog, bring your feet together. Draw your shins toward each other and in toward your midline; this action creates a subtle internal rotation and a sense of space between the thighs. As you shift onto the outside of your right foot and balance on your right hand, draw your tailbone down into this space. Shifting from Down Dog, in which the sitting bones are wide, to a pose in which there's a more integrated relationship between the pubis and the tailbone is another way to establish a midline connection, this time between the front and back bodies. Next, slowly unravel the left side of the body, just as you did in Ardha Chandrasana. If your hand is in line with your mouth, it's in the right place. Feel how pulling into your center gives you the confidence to expand out into space. Stay here for 3 breaths.