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Want some practice? Take your hands slightly wider than shoulder distance apart on the floor about 12” from the wall and step back to downdog. Look between your hands. Keep your shoulder blades down and elbows locked and do leg swings about 10 each side. Practice swinging one leg and taking that heel to touch the wall. The leg swinging is your momentum which floats opposite foot off the floor- I’m not jumping with that leg. Now use your breath for all of this. You need an inhale when working on handstands. Otherwise your abs (if exhaling on the upswing) will keep you from your handstand. So inhale up, exhale down.

This is one of my favorite ways to open up my chest and shoulder all the way to my fingers! We don’t even realize how tight our hands and arms are just from having our arms in front of our bodies and on the phone all day. ➡️ start by facing the wall. Take one hand to the wall shoulder height with fingers facing away from you. Pull/ keep scapula away from your ear. Turn away from the direction your fingers are pointing. Keep your chest up, hips back and shoulder down. Next, hover hand away from the wall but hold the position by squeezing back of the shoulder. Breathe! Second side.