Step by step
As you inhale, raise your arms parallel to the floor, keeping your shoulders down and your neck long. As you exhale, bend your right knee, keeping your knee over your ankle. If needed, slightly adjust the position of your feet and legs to find stability in the pose.
What is Warrior 2 pose good for?
Benefits of Warrior II Pose:
- Stretches your hips, groins and shoulders.
- Opens your chest and lungs.
- Builds stamina and concentration.
- Energizes tired limbs.
- Stimulates your abdominal organs.
- Helps relieve backaches, especially through your 2nd trimester.
- Develops balance and stability.
- Improves circulation and respiration.
How to do the warrior yoga pose?
There is some space between your heels. So get that base set up first before you rise. Now as you bend the right knee you can start with your hands to your right knee.
Who should not do Warrior 2?
Who shouldn't do Warrior 2? Anyone with high blood pressure should not extend arms overhead for an extended period. Anyone with hip or knee injury/issues should shorten the distance between the feet and lessen the bend of the knee. Anyone with a neck injury should keep the head in neutral rather than rotate the head.
What is the correct alignment for Warrior 2?
Placing hips too far behind shoulders: It's common to line up Warrior 2 in such a way that your hips are shifting backwards and your shoulders are shifting forward. The correct alignment is to have your hips directly under your shoulders with both facing the long side of your mat.
What does Warrior 2 pose do?
Warrior II pose, or Virabhadrasana II in Sanskrit, is a standing yoga posture that stretches the shoulder, chest, and groin, and builds strength in the legs, torso, and spine. Warrior II is one of five other warrior poses in a modern yoga practice, along with warrior I, warrior III, reverse warrior, and humble warrior.