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Roots To Shoots

4/8/2016

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PictureStanding Splits or utthita eka pada hastasana
The leg goes over the head in the final end position of standing splits or utthita eka pada hastasana, but many people when they first see this pose can't get their head around the leg. All they see is leg, leg, leg and can't get over how straight up it goes. They have the impression that this is some daring-do feat of flexibility.

The leg though is a side effect of the activated root chakra, the first center at the tip of the tailbone. It's out of powering this chakra, this energy center, that makes the leg shoot up.

It is from the root chakra, the base, the 'Earth' of our spine, that we learn to guide the leg up in an upward, vertical direction. By bringing one leg upright against gravity like this, there is a direct use of the will, of putting action out into the world -- literally in this case.

Once the intention becomes strong within, the root, activated, then the leg carries itself up and up, the same way a spring flower shoots through the ground.

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