Palm TreeSave PDF
Tadasana
TAHD-AH-sah-nah
Lengthens spine
Stretches abdominal organs
Improves physical and mental balance
How to perform Palm Tree
- Stand with your feet hip-width apart.
- Rest your hands on top of your head with an exhale, fingers interlocked.
- Reach your palms toward the sky with an inhale. Come on to your toes and stretch your whole body.
- Balance here for one or more slow deep breaths.
- Exhale and lower. Repeat this movement.
Alignment cues
- Feet hip-width apart
- Draw shoulders down
- Tuck tailbone under
- Tuck front ribs in
- Fix gaze at one point to balance
- Exhale and place hands on head
- Inhale and reach palms toward sky
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Palm Tree (Tadasana in Sanskrit) is a beginner yoga pose that belongs to the balancing and standing and warm-ups categories. This asana targets abs and spine, and also involves ankles, chest, quadriceps, shoulders, upper back & lower traps and wrists muscles. Palm tree stretches abdominal organs; lengthens spine and also improves physical and mental balance. Refer to the illustration and instructions above for how to perform this posture correctly. Discover more yoga asanas and yogic breathing exercises in our free yoga pose directory – a visual resource for yoga teacher training students as well as practitioners of all levels. Finally, shop our best-selling Yoga Cards products!
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