Tadasana

Sweep your arms up overhead.

Exhale, Samasthiti.

Float your hands down.

Inhale, chair pose.

Inhale, mountain pose.

Sweep your arms all the way up.

Exhale, Samasthiti.

Release your hands down.

It's not uncommon in like an active asana class that students will move through very familiar sun salutation shapes.

Standing in Tadasana, arms sweep up into Urdhva Hastasana.

Open the arms, hip hinge, forward fold into Uttanasana.

Right? You can just use your words.

We're like in this really stable position.

Can you give me a little bit insight into your own insight into Samasthiti and how you can apply that off of the mat?

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It doesn't have to be driving.

I mean, being a parent is so challenging sometimes.

I'm curious, what's a way we can apply Samasthiti? Maybe we could say we're driving the kids in the car and they're yelling and screaming and punching each other saying, get off my side of the seat.

This is where the line is and you stay over here and this is my side.

So just take that into consideration.

Another one is sort of even more, you know, uncommon opening practice is something that I like a lot, which would be standing in Tadasana.

But even like before I've done a lot of like centering, focusing awareness practice, we would move.

We would roll super, super slowly through the spine into Tadasana, focusing on articulating individual segments of the spine, slowly roll back up, reorganizing the skeleton over their feet.

Make sure the pelvis is over the ankles.

A lot of people have to move their pelvis back to get it over their ankles.

A lot of people in their standing posture, you know, they have some sort of suboptimal habits, like I was mentioning, like pelvis forward, ribs back, or a big anterior tilt.

Anyway, you can like talk people through some shifting of that without actually correcting them.

So the shoulder blade is still free to rotate in any way that it needs whilst it's in this overhead position.

And so while I mentioned earlier, this myth doesn't really apply to when the arms are down, like shoulder blades down and back in Subhasana or Tadasana, elevation can still creep up anywhere.

So the shoulders coming closer towards the ears, it's often a tension habit or not specifically related to like the overhead arm thing.

So just adopting the cue, keep your shoulders down, away from your ears or drop your shoulders away from your ears something like that it's still just a worthwhile cue to have for many positions and fishavasana it's also just like a comfort thing at this point not tied to research so instead of saying shoulders down and back We ideally would want to be saying something like drop your shoulders away from your ears or keep your shoulders away from your ears.

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There's a reason that many times we start class in a pose called Tadasana, the mountain pose.

No contraindications.

The platforms of the, anatomical platforms of the body are stacked perfectly.