Circular arm movement: Up to Down
Playlist 68: Arms in your Adavu practice
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2m 18s
The positions of the arms are often neglected, without attention to the correct muscular engagement. This series will introduces various usages of the arms in exercises and Bharatanatyam and go through systematically how the position and engagement of muscles should be in each scenario.
How do we move our arms in a circular fashion? what plane does it move in?
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