Prasarita Padottanasana is the most easeful posture in the standing sequence, and also the moment when we make the first reverential gesture of laying our heads down upon the earth, or better, laying down our hubristic notions while bowing (as deeply as our bodies allow) to the innate intelligence that sustains us from beneath.
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In this form, we allow our spines to loosen and our thoughts to fall, even as we keep our feet reaching deep into the soil of the earth. The vinyasa pattern has us rise and spread between each iteration of the form, reminding us that through profound humility, and the readiness to take an upside down perspective, we experience a fuller expansion of the heart.
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