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Uttanasana

Take Shiva stance before you lift the leg.  Bend forward with knees bent until your ribs touch your quadriceps, look toward your belly button.  Learn to feel the sensations of shoulder blades down your back and psoas releasing (big butt).

Trikonasana

Take Shiva stance. Lift right bent leg and move right lifted bent leg out to the right side about 2 feet. Increase the bend in the left standing leg by sitting down in an imaginary chair until your right foot lands on the floor, toes parallel to front edge of mat. Both inner edges of the feet will be parallel. Grab your right big toe with your right hand, maintaining Shiva arm position. Twist the torso so your right eye is looking into your left palm. Reverse, change sides.

Parvitta Trikonasana

Take Shiva stance. Lift right bent leg and move right lifted bent leg out to the right side about 2 feet. Increase the bend in the left standing leg by sitting down in an imaginary chair until your right foot lands on the floor. Both inner edges of the feet will be parallel. Place your right side ribs on your right quadriceps.  Turn body toward the backside without allowing the left inner knee to rotate inward, attempting to look to the ceiling, maintaining Shiva arm position.  Reverse, change sides.

Virbradrasana III

Take Shiva stance before you lift the leg.  Bend forward releasing knees toward the little toe moving ribs toward quadriceps.  Place fingers on the floor and lift your left leg.  Look to see the lifted toes are slightly pigeon toed. If you twist the body toward the front you can learn to feel the dynamic strength in the standing leg.   Reverse, change sides.

Passimottanasana

Sit down on the floor with bent knees, pigeon toed feet, Shiva arms. This is also the first position in the 18th chapter of 18 Buddha Hands Qigong. Bend forward until your ribs touch your quadriceps.

Training using the lessons from the power of Lord Shiva’s blueprint can provide grace without injury and insights into the Hindu and Vedic traditions for students interested in developing a yoga practice.  From the beginning students create a “flow without time’s presence, so that each of us realizes we aren’t really separate beings limited by space and time, by a One-Being, continual and eternal”.6

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