Partner Playful Poses with Adjustments

Support Restorative Twist with a Blanket and Bolster. This pose brings the mind and body into one restful union. Here we learn to get calm, centered, be active receivers, versus passive recipients and find great support!

Reclining child partner pose. Begin tailbone to tailbone. Always moving in and out of the pose slowly and with great ease and mindfulness. Be open to using the floor as a prop to help assist you!

Tree Pose. This is a great hip opener and meditation posture. If you find this pose difficult to balance, try to pick a place on the floor just in front of the body and keep your focus there! Press the knee out to the side and allow the standing leg to become strengthened and light.

Partner Warrior III. Holding arms out straight in front helps to support balance and length in the back body. Make sure to turn the back leg down. Back off slightly and find a parallel plane with your partner! Just Smile..

Sacrum Press. When you offer this posture, you give loving kindness for their sacrum loves to be adjusted. Use all the body weight you can to press directly on the sacrum and slightly down toward the heels. This subtle movement prevents the lower back from taking excessive weight and opens up avenues of new expansive space inside the body.

Supported Partner Squat. This stretch builds strength in the legs and core! It is so much fun finding the balance with your partner. Notice that the work is really play, because it's coming from TEAMWORK.

The Tree Pose set inside the Squat is creating now a little nature reserve! Quite a picnic not panic. Ha, HA!...

Reclining child partner pose. Similar to the one above except the partner also has a good hold on the arms ensuring a nice long even length for the sides and back body too! If you are in child pose and this pose bothers your knee, take your knees out wider before you begin. Have FUN.

From a seated posture of JOY, reach for your partners right hand with your left and look in the same direction as the rotating shoulder. In all twists, you want to lengthen the spine and soften the shoulders down.

Val created this posture! It is a seated forward fold with a downward dog and just great time to be SILLY.

With one person in child pose reaching for the partners ankles and the other partner in plank pressing down on their sacrum with all their body weight, both benefit from a really nice stretch!

Reclining child partner pose. One last variation on this child to child pose. Legs AND arms are outstretched this time! This posture is great for all levels.

This adjustment is great for Cobra and Upward Dog Posture, helping the student to stay grounded inside the pelvis and lengthen out through the legs and take the top of the feet into the earth. When pulling your students arms, make sure to keep your own back and arms straight and take all of your weight down into the knees pressing the top of their butt down and back toward the feet.

Assisted Plow. Bring your partner to Dead Bug. Step your feet forward of their hips on either side. Ask them to bend their knees outward to the long edge of the mat and bring the soles of the feet toward one another depending on their own personal level of flexibility.

Standing Backbend. Line up the tailbone first. Step into your 'power stance' position. Keep your bodies relaxed and slowly ask your partner to roll onto your back. When they are comfortable raise them off the ground. This is a great LAUGH!..

Supported squat. Begin with Prasarita legs and reach for your partners arms. Have both sides of the body fully elongated. Come into a nice and easy squat finding just the right distance!

One of my students created this picture of himself. It's still a mystery to me! Enjoy...