I recently received an email from a podcast listener who couldn’t quite get what “star fish” pose was. I don’t remember where I got the name of this pose but I think some crazy yoga teacher made it up at some point (ha! maybe it was me LOL) and an internet search doesn’t yield anything but the real echinoderm or silly people having fun spreading their arms and legs as wide as they can go… and no doubt this yoga version of starfish pose is fun! Think heart opening and expressive… like triangle on crack! Enjoy!
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The second part of that is almost like Dying Warrior. (if you added thread the needle with your arms.) I found a picture for you, so here’s the link to the blog: http://www.babsbabble.com/journal/2010/12/2/dying-warrior.html
I plan to teach starfish in my very next class! Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi. Thanks for reading and especially for sharing the dying warrior variation. Love it! Om!
My lame and unskilled attempt to translate “starfish” to sanskrit indicates this should be called Nakshatramatsyasana.