01/21/2026
Join Cari this Saturday for Understanding Your Asana.
For those new to our studio or our page, every month, Cari offers an in depth look at a different pose and provides you with alternative ways to reach its maximum benefits. This month’s pose is Hand To Big Toe pose (Padangusthasana).
Benefits of this pose include strengthening your balance while improving your flexibility and your focus. It helps to strengthen your legs and your core while counteracting the effects of prolonged sitting. So, if you’re someone who drives a lot or is behind a desk a lot, this pose will do wonders for your mobility, help flex the hips, and stretch the hamstrings.
While some people are always nervous when it comes to balance poses, keep in mind that we are big advocates for props at Healthy Life Yoga and the whole point of the Understanding Your Asana classes is to learn how to make any pose work for your body in one way or another.
There’s more than one way to every pose and that’s what makes these classes so special. In this class she will show you how to take this pose on your feet, sitting, on your back, and with various props. Whichever way you prefer, and with any props you use, the benefits are the same. Do what feels good.
SO! If you want to expand on your practice, learn new ways to reach comfort levels in a pose that maybe didn’t feel like it could be accessible to you (I promise you, it is), then come see Cari Saturday morning at 9:30am.
Also, since we are all probably going to be homebound for a couple days due to snow coming in later Saturday think of this pose as a preemptive strike to the couch sitting that is sure to happen once we are snowed in, haha.
