In Exhale Dancer on the left, which action involves the left elbow?

• A. Inhale reach your right arm up to the sky and lengthen your spine.
• B. Exhale bring your left elbow to your hip with your palm facing up, grab the inside of left foot.
• C. One more inhale here
• D. Ground down through all four corners of your standing foot

Answer: (B)

In this pose variation, you can see how the left elbow is used to set up the bind. Bringing the left elbow to the hip with the palm facing up creates the position and rotation of the shoulder that allows you to reach and grab the inside of the left foot. That elbow-to-hip action is the dedicated cue for the left arm’s involvement in this bind, making it the action described in the correct choice. The other cues describe different aspects of the pose or breath—reaching the other arm up, a breathing instruction, or grounding through the foot—without involving the left elbow.