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Standing side bend

Target Obliques  ·  Equipment Body weight  ·  Level Beginner  ·  Reps 3

Standing side bend is a beginner-level yoga movement targeting the obliques, written in Posecode, a small open-source language that capable language models can use to describe human movement as text. Authored joint targets and reach-IK solves are constrained to Posecode's configured per-axis bounds. Those bounds constrain the visualization, but they do not certify that a complete movement is safe or clinically correct. This page documents a code example; it is not exercise instruction.

Movement phases

Phase cues are display-only coaching text. The executable joint and contact directives in the source below determine the animation.

1. Reach over3s · flow Reach tall, then arc gently over to one side
2. Return2.5s · settle Lengthen back up through the crown of the head

The .posecode source

This is the exact text used by the linked playground animation: phases and joint angles, not 3D transforms.

posecode stretch "Standing side bend"
  rig humanoid
  pose start = standing

  step "Reach over" 3s flow:
    shoulders: flex 175
    spine: abduct 30
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Reach tall, then arc gently over to one side"

  step "Return" 2.5s settle:
    shoulders: flex 0
    spine: abduct 0
    ground-lock: feet
    cue "Lengthen back up through the crown of the head"

  repeat 3

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