Adho Mukha Svanasana

(AH-doh MOO-kah shvah-NAHS-anna)
adho = downward
mukha = face
svana = dog

Downward-Facing Dog

Step by Step

http://www.yogajournal.com/images/old/poses_section/pose_step1.gif Come onto the floor on your hands and knees. Set your knees directly below your hips and your hands slightly forward of your shoulders. Spread your palms, index fingers parallel or slightly turned out, and turn your toes under.

用手和膝来到垫子上。膝要在髋的正下方，手在肩下微微向前的位置。食指互相平行，或者轻微转向外，并转脚趾向下。

http://www.yogajournal.com/images/old/poses_section/pose_step2.gif Exhale and lift your knees away from the floor. At first keep the knees slightly bent and the heels lifted away from the floor. Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of your pelvis and press it lightly toward the pubis. Against this resistance, lift the sitting bones toward the ceiling, and from your inner ankles draw the inner legs up into the groins.

呼气并提起膝部离开地板。开始保持膝部轻微弯曲并提起脚跟离开地板。从骨盆的后部拉长尾骨，并轻轻地把它压向耻骨。相对这个阻力，提起坐骨朝向天花板，从脚踝内侧拉大腿内侧向上进入腹股沟。

http://www.yogajournal.com/images/old/poses_section/pose_step3.gif Then with an exhalation, push your top thighs back and stretch your heels onto or down toward the floor. Straighten your knees but be sure not to lock them. Firm the outer thighs and roll the upper thighs inward slightly. Narrow the front of the pelvis.

然后随着呼气，推你的大腿上部的后侧并伸展你的脚跟向地板的方向，或者落到地板上。伸展膝盖但确保不要锁死。稳固大腿外侧，并把大腿上部轻轻地向内卷。缩短前侧的骨盆。

http://www.yogajournal.com/images/old/poses_section/pose_step4.gif Firm the outer arms and press the bases of the index fingers actively into the floor. From these two points lift along your inner arms from the wrists to the tops of the shoulders. Firm your shoulder blades against your back, then widen them and draw them toward the tailbone. Keep the head between the upper arms; don't let it hang.

牢固手臂外侧并把食指的根基积极地压向地板。沿着手臂，从双手的这两点提起，从手腕到肩膀的顶点。稳固肩胛骨进入背部，然后扩宽肩胛骨并拉它们向尾骨的方向。保持头在两上臂之间，不要悬起。

http://www.yogajournal.com/images/old/poses_section/pose_step5.gif Adho Mukha Svanasana is one of the poses in the traditional Sun Salutation sequence. It's also an excellent yoga asana all on its own. Stay in this pose anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes. Then bend your knees to the floor with an exhalation and rest in Child's Pose.

下犬式是传统拜日式中的一个体式。它本身就是一个卓越的体式。在这个体式保持1到3分钟。然后随着呼气屈膝到地板，婴儿式休息。

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