{"id":10079,"date":"2023-03-29T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2023-03-29T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:49:03","slug":"reverse-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/reverse-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"REVERSE WARRIOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>How To Perform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Begin in Warrior II with your left leg forward.<br>\u2022 Flip the left palm and inhale, rotating your arms so that your left arm reaches up to the sky and your right hand rests on your right thigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Sink low in your hips and reach high with your left arm as you look up toward your left palm.<br>\u2022 Breathe length through your left side body, imagining that you can breathe space into<br>the left side of your rib cage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Avoid collapsing in your right side body,&nbsp;using core strength instead.<br>\u2022 Relax your left shoulder away from&nbsp;your ear and breathe for three to seven&nbsp;breaths.<br>\u2022 To release from the pose, lower&nbsp;the arms back into Warrior II. Press&nbsp;down through the back foot while&nbsp;straightening the front leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Lower the arms. Turn to the&nbsp;right, reversing the position&nbsp;of the feet and repeat on the<br>opposite side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Strengthens and stretches the legs, groins, hips, and the sides of the torso and waist.<br>\u2022 Improves exibility in the spine, inner thighs, ankles, and chest.<br>\u2022 Increases blood ow throughout the body, reducing fatigue and helping to calm the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modifications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 If your hips are tight, shorten your stance and straighten your front leg to a degree that is comfortable as you work on gaining exibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 If you have a shoulder injury or lack the mobility, place your hands on your hips. Work on lifting your chest and lengthening your spine without over-straining your arms and shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Perform \u2022 Begin in Warrior II with your left leg forward.\u2022 Flip the left palm and inhale, rotating your arms so that your left arm reaches up to the sky and your right hand rests on your right thigh. \u2022 Sink low in your hips and reach high with your left arm as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,71],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermediate-pose","category-yoga","tag-intermediate-pose"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogamagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}