Develop strength, grace and poise with this standing balance sequence. These are some of my favourite yoga postures. Yoga is all about integration and to stand steady and focused on one leg involves so many different functions working together in a controlled way: strength, co-ordination, proprioception, respiration, mental focus and more. Balance is also a movement skill and there’s plenty of room for improvement with practice if you find you’re wobbly when you start coming to yoga. Our sense of balance develops as small children learning to stand on one leg or ride a bike. It diminishes as we get older and we become more prone to slips, trips and falls but, as yogis know, this is not inevitable and can be reversed. There are three ways to do this sequence: To get going: Start with your stronger leg, repeat with the second one, doing each pose in turn, staying for up to four breaths on each leg. Stand close to the wall so you can use it to steady […]