Fire log (hold)

Agnistambhasana

Yogaintermediatetimedno equipment

Seated with the shins stacked parallel to the front of the mat, left ankle on the right knee and left knee over the right ankle, both feet flexed, folding forward from the hips with a long spine and the palms on the floor beside the ends of the shins.

How to do it

1. Sit tall on the sitting bones with both knees bent and the feet on the floor in front of you.
2. Lower the right leg so the right shin lies on the floor parallel to the front edge of the mat, right knee out to the right.
3. Stack the left shin on top of the right, parallel to it: the left ankle rests on (just outside) the right knee and the left knee sits over the right ankle; flex both feet so the ankles stay neutral.
4. Sit tall with the fingertips on the floor in front of the shins, spine long.
5. Exhale and fold forward from the hips with the spine long rather than rounded, sliding the hands out to the floor beside the ends of the stacked shins; gaze to the floor ahead. Hold, then switch sides.

Muscles worked

adduttori, lombari, glutei