Animal yoga poses

1. From table, round/ hunch your back, chin touching

the chest, ankles relaxed in the CAT pose.

2. lie down on your chest, raise up to your navel point,

look forward, shoulders and ankles relaxed, neck line in with spine, in the SNAKE pose
3. lie down on your back, raise your hands and legs
up in 90 degrees, and move them in the flow of your choice in the OCTOPUS pose.

4. lie down on your chest, raise your body up to navel

point, then slowly raise your legs up to your thighs, followed by your hand, stretched out
straight at the back of your body. look forward here, in the SHARK pose.

5. from table raise up to mountain, once you feel

comfortable there, lift your right leg up, gaze down on the mat, hands and legs straight.
Repeat the same on the other side, in THREE LEGGED DOG pose
6. stand straight on your mat, take comfortable distance
in between your feet. Sit down placing your hands inside the space in between your feet and
start hopping forward and backward, in the FROG pose.

7. stand straight on your mat, take comfortable

distance in between your legs, stretch your hands out at the shoulder level to get into the
STAR pose.

8. sit in the diamond pose, gently stretch your

knees out, but keep your heels together, with your buttocks resting on your heels. Place
your hands on your thigh, breathe in from your nose, exhale from your mouth by sticking
your tongue out in the LION pose.
9. from table, arch your back, pushing the lower
back down to the ground, and look up in the COW pose.

10. from table, without moving the knee-thigh-and

hip alignment, slide your hands forward and drop your chest and chin on the mat in the
PUPPY pose.

11. sit down with your feet together, heels closer to the groin
area, slide your hands within the gaps of your thigh and the ground and try to touch your
forehead to the the feet, In the TURTLE pose.
12. from mountain, drop your complete elbow and
forearm down on the ground, gaze at the mat for better balance, try to place the complete
foot on the ground, in the DOLPHIN pose.

13. sit down with your feet together, heels closer to the
groin area, interlock your fingers, hold your feet together and start flapping your thighs in
the BUTTERFLY pose.

14. from the diamond pose, raise up on your

knees, raise your one hand up, place it on the heels of the same side, then lift your other
hand up, place it on the heels of the same side, drop your neck down, and once you adjust
yourself there, push your chest and stomach towards the sky to feel better stretch, in the
CAMEL pose.
15. from the table pose, tuck your toes, raise your
knees off the ground, hands and legs straight, push your upper body to the lower body, gaze
at your thighs, in the DOG pose.

16. sit in the LOTUS pose, drop your body

down on your elbows and then gently adjust and place the crown of your head on the mat,
to get into the FISH pose.

17. from the STAFF pose, bend your knees,

place your heels closer to the buttocks, hands away from your body, tips of the fingers
pointing the heels, and raise your complete body off the ground, in the CRAB pose.
18. stand in tadasana, wrap your left leg on
your right leg, toes touching the heels of the other leg. Wrap your right hand on your left
hand, palms touching each other and look forward, balacing here, in the EAGLE pose.

19. take wide gap in between your

feet, bend forward, placing your palms in between your feet, head in between your palms,
all in one straight line, in the ELEPHANT pose.

20. come to the table pose, raise your one

hand up in the air, open up your chest, look up, in the GIRAFFE pose.
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Practice all the asanas on the other side, with your other hand and leg, as well, to ensure
maximum flexibility on both sides of the body.

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