Lower back, hips, knees and ankles

Tree Pose: Foot on Calf

Foot placed on your calf offers a moderate hip opening while training the same valuable single-leg balance that supports daily activities and prevents falls.

Ways to adjust it

• Chair
• Wall
• Toes floor

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: Classic
• 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.