Crescent

• Start in downward dog. Step one foot forward between your hands.
• Inhale and raise your torso upright, sweeping your arms up and wide to the sides with the palms facing in.
• Hold for a few breaths.
• Exhale and release the torso back down, and the hands back to the floor. Step the foot back to down dog.
• Hold for a few breaths, then repeat on the other side.

Crescent

This pose opens the anahata (heart) chakra and the manipura (solar plexas) chakra.