#Journey2Handstand - Day 18 - Handstand Tuck Kickups

Welcome to the 3rd week of this challenge!  Today we start working specifically on Handstands!  Yay!  Today we are doing kickups.  The first thing I must specify is to practice this on a fairly soft surface (yoga mat, carpet, grass, etc.) and EXPECT to fall over.  When it comes to learning how to handstand, you need to be not only okay with falling over, crashing down, but you need to prepare for it.  The more comfortable you are with failing, the faster you will improve.  If you are hesitant, cautious, concerned, worried - that will only impede growth.  We all fall - no one is immune. 

Now that you are feeling humble and ready to fall down, let's try kickups!
1. Start in Down Dog.
​2. Send your weight into your hands, keep your back flat, bend your knees and lift your heels.
3. Take a deep inhale, and with your exhale push your toes into the mat, and slowly kick up into the air and bring your feet closer to your hands.
4. Plant your hands, push into the ground, bend your knees and slowly push up into the air - keeping your legs tucked.
5. Bring your bottom up over your hands, stack your shoulders over your hands, and then slowly come back down to the ground.
6.  Repeat as many times as you can.
7.  Slowly stand up and take a deep inhale and bring your hands overhead.  Exhale and bring your hands back down.

Wonderful.  Now do that three times today! Let me know how it goes, take a video, a photo, or just describe your journey with me! :)

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