Once you are leaning back on your forearms, use your hands to spread the back of your pelvis and release your lower back and upper buttocks
through your tailbone.
Reaching
through the Tailbone, keeping the spine straight, stretching through the inner legs from the ankles up.
Continue lifting
through tailbone, keeping spine straight and head between arms.
Not exact matches
His left leg seemed to give way as he was beginning to jump for an alley - oop, and he sailed
through the air and appeared to land on his
tailbone or lower back.
After sorting
through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a
tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.
Begin in Mountain Pose (Tadasana), rooting the
tailbone down and pressing
through the soles of your feet.
To keep your lower body energized, tuck your
tailbone, lift up
through your navel, and push out
through your heels.
Feel the chest move forward and up
through the gateway of the shoulders as you lengthen your
tailbone towards your heels.
Create your foundation: Internally rotate your thighs, move your
tailbone in and down, and press down firmly
through your thighs.
Press firmly
through the inner edge of your left foot and move your
tailbone in and down.
To start the series, inhale and extend the spine, gently drawing the chest
through the upper arms and the
tailbone back, creating the tiniest of backbends.
«Virabhadrasana I allows us to work toward moving the
tailbone forward and lifting the torso out of the lower body — taking the head back safely, moving the shoulder blades forward toward the chest, and extending strongly
through the arms.»
Actively lift
through the top thighs, forming an inverted «V.» Firm the shoulder blades against your back and lift them toward the
tailbone so the front torso stays as long as possible.
Press strongly
through the raised heel and lengthen
through the crown of your head, keeping the
tailbone pressed towards the pubis.
This is where I introduce my terminology which is «lengthen the
tailbone down (or sometimes I say imagine pulling the
tailbone towards the pubic bone), pull the navel in and up as the ribs pull into the midline, broaden
through the collarbones, feeling the shoulder blades spreading across the back.»
Pull your
tailbone down while lengthening
through the crown as if some thread has been suspended from your crown.
Either lay yourself lightly down onto the floor or push strongly back to Adho Mukha Svanasana, lifting
through the top thighs and the
tailbone.
At the end of the spinal cord, the cord fibers separate into the cauda equina and continue down
through the spinal canal to your
tailbone before branching off to your legs and feet.
Apana vayu, the downward flow of prana
through the body, is at play, drawing energy down the backs of the legs and out the heels; meanwhile prana vayu, upward flow, keeps the heart from collapsing and supports the low back by lifting the belly in and up, creating a platform for the
tailbone to lift up and off of.