Open your shoulders with Gomukhasana Cow Face Pose and Garudasana Eagle Pose. Heres how to fix that. Tension Releasing Gomukhasana Yoga Benefits Journeys Of Yoga Cow Face Pose Yoga Poses Advanced Advanced Yoga If backbends are hard for you it might be tightness along the front of your thighs hips and abdomen. Gomukhasana Jason Crandell . In the second week the classes increase in intensity and duration and introduce more complex poses like arm balances and inversions. Head to the wall if you are still learning to invert in the middle of the room. Creating a balanced effective hip-opening sequence is simple if you know how the hip muscles are laid out. Mountain Pose or sit in Virasana Hero Pose and warm up your shoulders with Gomukhasana Cow Face Pose Garudasana Eagle Pose and Viparita Namaskar Reversed Prayer Pose. Anatomical precision and mindfulness. Jason Crandell thinks not and the San Franciscobased creator of his own teaching method explained why in his session Power