Personal Practice Day 3

My yoga practice today was gentle. I mainly wanted to work the hamstrings and shoulders. Using what I know of viniyoga concepts, coming half way up from uttanasana into ardha uttanasana, the arms were in u-shape versus straight out in front or straight out to the sides. The same concept of the arms was applied to virabhadrasana I. The arms help give gentle backbend quality to each posture. Lastly, using the breath, I slowly got into pachimottanasana (seated forward bend). The practice was slow-paced today, I was targeting certain areas with breath. It was nice to feel every little bit.