In this Friday’s Athletic Vinyasa Flow, we take our gentler seated twists and backbends to our feet with a sequence that includes one of my favorites: Wild Thing (Camatkarasana). While technically different from Flip Dog, they’re very close cousins and many instructors use them interchangeably. (In Flip Dog, you’re a bit closer to a wheel pose, whereas the easier Wild Thing is more asymmetrical.)
Often, instructors lead yogis to Wild Thing from Down Dog (Adho Much Svanasana), but I like coming it at it from this Plank / Side Plank sequence because the shoulders are a little better aligned, and you have to use the core to make the shape, rather than relying on momentum coming out of Down Dog.
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