Lower back, hips, knees and ankles

Tree Pose: Classic

Challenges your single-leg balance, building the ankle, hip, and core stability that keeps you steady on your feet and reduces fall risk.

Ways to adjust it

• Chair
• Wall
• Toes floor
• Foot on calf only

If this one is too much today

Try the gentler version instead. It asks less of you and does much the same work.

• Tree Pose: Holding Chair

Other ways to do this movement

Every version below is the same movement set up differently, so one of them usually suits.

• Tree Pose: At Wall
• Tree Pose: Foot on Calf
• Tree Pose: Foot on Chair
• Tree Pose: Holding Chair
• Tree Pose: Lift & Lower
• Tree Pose: Seated
• Tree Pose: Side-Lying
• Tree Pose: Toes on Floor

Before you try it

Move within a range that stays comfortable. Stop if this brings on sharp pain, dizziness, or symptoms that travel down an arm or a leg, and speak to a clinician before repeating it.

From the clinically authored Vinys movement library.