Skyler's Training Blog- Sphinx, Cobra, and Upward Dog poses.....

January 20, 2015-

Three somewhat similar yoga poses with their respective doga poses are the Sphinx, the Cobra, and the Upward Dog poses. So I thought I'd bring them to our attention today so that we can see they are in fact different.

The Sphinx pose is basically lying on the ground and holding your upper body up straight with your arms bend. Think of the Sphinx you may have seen in Egypt (or movies thereof). This is basically the same pose for your dog and you! Dogs are great at this pose just by lying and paying attention, we sit upright meanwhile automatically going into the Sphinx pose! I think I look like the GREAT Sphinx of the World- what do you think? (You can judge from the photo above or the video below!)

The Cobra Pose is taking the Sphinx pose a little deeper and lifting your upper body off the mat or ground. Meanwhile straightening your arms and looking up. I demonstrated this with Pam today, basically it's our Sphinx pose but we add a little stretch for the neck and chest into the mix, our human companions can help us by holding a treat above our heads to entice this movement!

The Upward Dog is taking these poses even further. While you will have your arms bent you will be lifting you legs off the mat as well, again looking up. Scout demonstrated this pose today! (Did you ever see a dog go into play mode? Well, our pose is kinda like the dogs pose to go out and play with other dogs or their companion thereof!)

Watch our video to see the different poses:

Ok, after we did these poses Pam, Sandy, Candycane, Scout and myself finished our Doga session.

I can't wait for tomorrow,

See ya then,

Skyler