Improve Your Balance and Strengthen Your Feet and Legs
Strength
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7m 5s
Emphasis: Balancing poses are such a challenge! This short practice will help to strengthen your ankles and your core muscles as you adapt to different surfaces beneath your feet and, if you do this drill regularly you'll find all your balancing poses begin to feel more stable.
Props required: A yoga block and your mat rolled up.
Mat direction: n/a.
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