ultimate dog

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earths age,<br>I never could get my foot position

in chaturanga, updog and downdog to agree until I

learned to do sun salutations the standard ashtanga

method, with jumping back, and forward, and no dragging

or wimping out in the transitions. The distance that

you jump back then can be the measure for all the

other poses in the sequence, and it works out pretty

easily. <br>Since there is no such thing as a "lunge" in

the regular ashtanga sun salutation, I'm guessing

that you are talking about one of several easier

variations that are often taught to newer students or as a

warmup, where you are encouraged to move as wide as

possible into a lunge, with one foot forward and the other

back. If you do that, it is likely that you will wind

up wider than what would be consistent with your

best dog pose, and then you just have to adjust. (Or,

you can not go so far back in the lunge.) As you

practice more the dog pose tends to open up and it gets

easier to go from one thing to another.