Yoga Backbend Video: Dropbacks

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Dear Yoga Student,

I get a lot of questions from people asking
how to do backbend dropbacks where you
go from bridge pose to standing, and then
back down… again and again.

Dropbacks are not really that difficult, but
it can be scary when you’re learning. In this
video (follow link below), I give some basic
instructions on how to practice.

*Watch* the Video Above

Things to remember:

1. Don’t be in a hurry to get to the floor
2. Lower body strong, upper body soft
3. Hang as long as you can
4. If the floor is too far away, drop back
to the wall (or a bed) at first to practice

Ok, that’s all for now! Don’t forget to practice
the back-opening series of poses in the YOGABODY
Handbook
as preparation for deeper backbends
like this.

Stay bendy,

Lucas
YOGABODY Naturals LLC
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days, and some asanas like headstand I pick up more easily
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  1. Abigail wrote
    at 2:20 am - 14th June 2008 Permalink

    Woah! im so jealous

  2. Whimy Suen wrote
    at 3:58 am - 2nd July 2008 Permalink

    Your demo and instructions are clear and inspiring!

  3. mary wrote
    at 7:21 am - 19th July 2008 Permalink

    Wow! i dont think ill ever be able to do that!

  4. terri wrote
    at 5:05 am - 1st August 2008 Permalink

    Love the video, have not long received the yogabody capsules so will let you know,
    so far no allergic reaction though and that was my main concern with some of the ingredients. Being a hayfever/sinus sufferer the wheatgrass can be a problem so will
    persevere and keep checking the stretching.

  5. kashmira wrote
    at 10:09 pm - 24th August 2008 Permalink

    XLNT Tutorial Videos… i do The Pigeon ALL the time and didnt know that it was a Yoga Pose… The iyengar video (silent ) looks like it feels SOOOOOOO Incredibly,Deliciously, XLNT RELEASING …ima try those moves SLOOOOOOOW @ 1st of course… i also appreciate the fact that u suggested holding the poses 3+ minutes if feels So Much Better…THANK YOU=ARIGATO/SHUCKRON/SHUKRIA/ SALAMAT/GRACIAS/MERCI/SHAY SHAY/HAMS-HAMIDA/OSHAY JURUJEFF/COP COON KA/COM ON… Again & Again & Again :->

  6. shahroz wrote
    at 11:06 am - 28th November 2008 Permalink

    In order to be that flexible do u have to start at an early age?….
    because im 15 and i just began stretching, im wandering if I can ever become that flexible?

  7. Megan wrote
    at 2:40 pm - 7th January 2009 Permalink

    Good video.I know these can be done because I used to do them. It’s been 20+ years.

  8. Lok wrote
    at 8:30 pm - 14th March 2009 Permalink

    I really got point from u.Now I could do better.Thanks a lot.

  9. Milagros de Capriles wrote
    at 9:06 pm - 8th May 2009 Permalink

    Dear Lucas: your videos and every thing from the food we better eat, your advice on how to practice, every thing, I find it very inspiring
    Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge
    Sincerely
    Milagros

  10. Ronald Keith wrote
    at 12:55 pm - 28th May 2009 Permalink

    So helpful I look forward to you teaches,I’m confident that one day I will be doing back bends oh, before I forget the msm vitamin c really works and soon I will try putting the wedges between my toes to gain incredible balancement give thanks. ron Keith.

  11. Ronald Keith wrote
    at 12:58 pm - 28th May 2009 Permalink

    So helpful I look forward to your teachings. Sorry I made a few mistakes.

  12. Annette Jensen wrote
    at 9:27 pm - 27th January 2010 Permalink

    I am 57. I took many years of yoga in the 70′s and 80′s. But have been on about a 15yr hiatis. I have your yoga body and have been praticing yoga again for a little over a month. I cannot lift my self into a bridge position. My arms just won’t lift me up!. I only weigh at my most 100 lbs. and I am quite strong. What can I do? Thank you for your help. Is it possible to get BACK into shape at my age? Hopefully yours, Annette

  13. Annette Jensen wrote
    at 9:35 pm - 27th January 2010 Permalink

    I forgot to mention, I think you’re aw esome! I looked on-line for a very long time about yoga help (I can’t afford classes) and I picked you because I loved my yoga teacher in the 70′s. He had us chop the greens that hang off the ends of vegetables and put them in a blender and drink it every day. To say the least your yogabody is so much easier to swallow:-) and he always said “you are as young as your spine” and you said something very similar. Thank you, Annette P.S. Yoga and nutrition ideas have come a long way. Pretty much the same idea but I only took Hatha Yoga. I don’t even hear of that anymore, and way back when, I thought that’s all there was. I really have some catching up to do!

  14. Lucas wrote
    at 12:15 am - 28th January 2010 Permalink

    Annette – thanks for your kind words! For full wheel/bridge pose, repetition and slow, longer holds are very helpful. I usually recommend 3-5 sets of 10 breaths each to start and slowly work up and up until you’re holding for 30 breaths. Needs to be relaxed though which is the challenge… using as little energy as possible.

    Hope that helps!

    Lucas

  15. Andrea Adams wrote
    at 1:54 am - 17th July 2010 Permalink

    Dang! I can’t bend that far, ouch!
    Haha, he looks like some kind of weird spider/insect thing when he’s bent over and rocking..lmao!

  16. Jeorge wrote
    at 10:42 pm - 8th August 2010 Permalink

    Ohh! You got a very flexible body man, I envy you. I really think that only women would do such bending thing. Great demonstration, nothing is impossible!

  17. Rae wrote
    at 8:54 am - 13th August 2010 Permalink

    You are amazing Lucas. I’ve been practicing to do the dropbacks. I still have the fear of falling flat to the floor. Your demos inspires me, I thought it would be impossible to do it perfectly but you did it.

  18. Trinity Wells wrote
    at 10:15 am - 12th November 2010 Permalink

    I guess, this will take me years to accomplish! :-)

  19. Regina Moreira wrote
    at 10:42 pm - 22nd November 2010 Permalink

    Very good demonstration!
    Perfect work! I enjoyed very much.
    Thank you!

    Please, keeping doing the same on other difficult postures.

  20. Regina Moreira wrote
    at 10:55 pm - 22nd November 2010 Permalink

    Where are you?
    I wanna go to do asanas with you!