The Humble Crescent Moon

This Sun Salutation is interesting because on the way back it has a spinal twist. It is sometime nice to do postures like this before doing deeper spinal twists like Revolved Triangle when both legs are straight. This spinal twist is good to add to sequences to prepare your body for the deeper twists.

After Crescent moon posture we flow into a posture known as Child pose which is where this Vinyasa flow gets its name.

On the way forward this Sun Salutation flows trough Triangle, Reverse Triangle, Warrior 1, Warrior 2 and warrior 3 prep which is a pose normally done before warrior 3.

Yoga Video Clips

Take your format pick below as one may work better than another for you. Enjoy!
Sun Salutation Windows Media Player
Sun Salutation QuickTime Player

It is best to save them to your computer first then run them from there. Right click  then Save as and put them in a folder.

Warrior 3 Preparation pose is a good pose to do before a the standing forward bend Uttanasana. You can also enter Warrior 3 if you like. 

Instructions

Stand in Tadasana.

Inhale into a backbend.












Exhale into a forward bend.

Inhale and step the right leg back.

(Make the effort to look forward.)

Exhale and twist the body raising the left arm up and using the right arm for support.

Inhale and unwind. Raise the arms up and allow the right leg to drop down.

This pose may aggravate sacral problems.

Exhale back into Child pose.

Careful on the knees if they are not flexible. Take them back into a mild stretch. Do not lean with all your weight on a stiff knee. Be sensible.







Inhale into Cobra pose.







Exhale back to Downward Dog.

Inhale forward a little. Or stay in Downward Dog and Inhale.

Exhale back into One Leg Downward Dog. Raising the left leg up ad back.

The leg can be raised higher if the pelvis is tilted and the hips are taken out of horizontal alignment. The forces down the arms become uneven when this is done but provides for a larger motion when swinging the leg forward. 



Inhale step the left leg forward between the arms.






Exhale and straighten the left leg. The right leg steps sideways and the right arm stretches up. The left arm can be placed on the left leg or down on the mat.



Inhale on the transition.




Exhale deepen Reverse Triangle right arm down left arm up.











Inhale wind round and bend the left knee. Stretch the arms up into Warrior 1 pose.









Exhale open sideways into Warrior 2 pose.

Inhale and rotate that right arm forward and lean forward. Take the tight arm up also and touch the palms together.








Exhale into a forward bend.












Inhale and raise the arms up.




Exhale into Tadasana with the hands in prayer position.

Perform the same sequence on the opposite side.

Tadasana

Salutation Pose








Uttanasana

Lunge Pose

Parivrtta ParsvaKonasana

Anjaneyasana








Balasana










Bhujangasana

Adho Mukha Svanasana







Eka Pada Adho Muka Svanasana







Lunge Pose






Trikonasana








Parivrtta Trikonasana








Virabhadrasana1




 

Virabhadrasana2




















Uttanasana







Salutation Pose








Tadasana

Yoga Breathing Techniques

by Mark Giubarelli