Actively pressing down into the big - toe ball of the foot and the inner heel causes a rebound up through your body and shifts your center of gravity toward the outer edge of your foot; pressing into the outer
edge of the foot shifts your center of gravity more over the inner edge.
If you pay attention to this involuntary small dance, you'll see that pressing down the outer
edge of the foot shifts the body's center of gravity toward the inner foot, and vice versa.
Not exact matches
Press into the inner
edges of your
feet to
shift your weight forward.
Shift onto the outside
edge of your left
foot, and stack your right
foot on top
of the left.
When you're first learning the pose, one way to counterbalance this tendency is to
shift the hips a little more in the opposite direction, bringing more weight onto the outer
edge of the
foot.
On an inhale,
shift your weight onto your left hand, roll onto the outer
edge of the left
foot and pop up onto your right fingertips.
Shift onto the outside
edge (little - toe side)
of the back
foot, and walk the block away from the inner
foot about 12 to 18 inches.