How to Build Strength for Wheel Pose

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Want to build strength for wheel pose (urdhva dhanurasana), yoga’s biggest backbend? This video features eight of our favorite Strength for Yoga exercises, designed to help you strengthen and increase flexibility in the key movement areas needed for wheel pose: spinal extension, shoulder flexion, and hip extension.

And the best part? All of the exercises are bodyweight-only, so you can do them right at home – no equipment required!

Featured Exercises:

-Prone Thoracic Spine Extension
-Prone I Raises
-Reverse Table Lift
-Bear Tricep Extension
-Down Dog Push-Ups
-Wall Reaches
-Monty Wolford Squats
-Wheel Head Taps

These exercises are perfect for bringing into your yoga practice or for integrating into your separate, dedicated strength practice.

Make sure to check out our companion video, Wheel Pose: Anatomy & Biomechanics Explained (   • Wheel Pose: Anatomy & Biomechanics Explained  ), for a breakdown of wheel pose and strategies for modifications.

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We incorporate these strategies into our Strength for Yoga programs! Strength for Yoga was created by Exercise Science professor Travis Pollen and longtime yoga teacher Jenni Rawlings to empower and educate yogis about how to bring strength into their movement practice.

Enhance and fill in the strength gaps left behind by your yoga practice with us in our Strength for Yoga program!

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TIME STAMPS

00:00 Intro

00:58 Wheel Pose Exercise #1: Prone Thoracic Spine Extension

1:56 Wheel Pose Exercise #2 Prone I Raises

2:57 Wheel Pose Exercise #3 Reverse Table Lift

3:44 Wheel Pose Exercise #4 Bear Tricep Extension

4:57 Wheel Pose Exercise #5 Down Dog Push-Ups

6:14 Wheel Pose Exercise #6 Wall Reaches

8:00 Wheel Pose Exercise #7 Monty Wolford Squats

9:31 Wheel Pose Exercise #8 Wheel Head Taps