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Camatkarasana
kah-maht-car-AH-sah-nah
Stretches spine and shoulders
Opens chest and lungs
Gives vitality and energy
How to perform Wild Thing
- Begin in Downward Facing Dog. Reach your right foot toward the sky with an inhale.
- Bend the right knee, open your pelvis to the sky, and shift your weight into your left hand as you rotate to the outer edge of your left foot.
- As your right foot touches the floor, lift your right arm up and reach it overhead. Lift your hips toward the sky and relax your neck.
- Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
- Carefully rotate your body to the left to return to Downward Facing Dog. Change sides.
Alignment cues
- Lift hips
- Stay on toes
- Lift chest
- Relax neck
Avoid this pose if you have shoulder or wrist injury.
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Wild Thing (Camatkarasana in Sanskrit) is an intermediate yoga pose that belongs to the back bends category. This asana targets chest, shoulders and spine, and also involves abs, quadriceps and wrists muscles. Wild thing opens chest and lungs; stretches spine and shoulders and also gives vitality and energy. 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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