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Strike a Yoga Pose: Tree Pose, Vrksasana

Tree Pose (Vrksasana) improves balance and flexibility, while also encouraging you to lighten up a bit. Something very important to remember when losing your balance in Tree Pose and sans the gentlest breeze: Trees have roots. A tree grows both upwards and downwards from the ground, thus creating a supportive base from which to sprout. In Tree Pose, a yogi creates the supportive base by mimicking the trunk of the tree with the lower body – but any roots that assist in staying upright are conjured through imagination (since we lack “Go Go Gadget Tree Pose Roots!”). Without the underground mirror image...