🦵 Low Lunge (Anjaneyasana): Choosing Direction with Intention

Welcome back to Yoga for Leadership™. 🌱

This is your calm and centered leadership series, where I share one yoga pose each week with a leadership practice you can use in real time.

We’re continuing our new 8-week series focused on Presence to Impact.

How we move from being grounded and responsive into taking clear, intentional action.

Are you ready?  Let’s begin.

In Week 1, we created space.

In Week 2, we found steadiness through movement.

This week, we begin to direct our energy forward.

🦵 Low Lunge (Anjaneyasana)

Leadership Practice: Choosing Direction with Intention

Low Lunge is one of those poses that looks simple but asks a lot from you.  

Back knee stretches long, knee supported.

Front foot steps forward.

The hip lowers, and the spine lifts.

You feel stability in the back leg.

Stretch through the front.

Strength and vulnerability at the same time.

I personally have to pay attention here. 

Hello, old ACL injuries. 😬 They remind me to listen closely, to move deliberately, not forcefully.

What this pose teaches me is that forward movement doesn’t require rushing.

It asks for choice.

There’s a quiet strength in it.

You’re grounded in one place, while intentionally moving toward another.

This mirrors leadership more than we often admit.

Many of the leaders I work with aren’t unsure what to do.

They’re deciding how to move forward without overreaching, overcommitting, or losing themselves in the process.

Low Lunge reminds me that impact doesn’t come from force.

It comes from clarity of direction and a willingness to engage the stretch that comes with growth.

You don’t leap.

You place your foot.

You check your alignment.

Then you breathe and rise.

🌱 Leadership Practice

Notice where you feel ready to step forward.

Let your foundation support you.

Take one intentional step, and let alignment guide the action.

Ask yourself:

Where could a clear, grounded step forward create more impact right now?

One breath.

One pose.

One practice at a time.