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Once you solidify your headstand, you may find that raising up into the position with tucked legs is easy and you’re ready to move on to something more challenging. That's where press to headstand ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the July-August 1984 issue of Yoga Journal.