One of the most helpful things I learned to do early in my yoga practice was to cartwheel out of my handstand. Even if you're super new to yoga or just learning basics - you are learning to eventually balance your weight on your hands! Someday, in your practice or maybe you're already there - you will feel your body invite you upside down on those hands! We practice this most commonly in our Sun Salutations as we jump back to Chaturanga or jump forward from Adho Mukha Svanasana (Down Dog) into Uttanasana (Forward Fold). There will be other times we might visit our handstand as well - Standing Splits, Half Moon are just a few other postures in which we might plant your hands and kick up into handstand moving back into our vinyasa. If any of these poses sound confusing or you have no idea what I'm talking about - THATS OK! If you stick with yoga - you will :)
I've posted this very short video to teach you how to tap into that inner child and Cartwheel! Cartwheel often! The more you practice Cartwheels, the easier it will feel when moving into handstand to feel yourself cartwheel out instead of falling back into a back bend.
In conjuction with this video I will post another short post about kicking up into handstand. These two practices - kicking into handstand as well as cartwheeling out of handstand are helpful when practiced together.
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