Standing Side Stretch Pose Reference
A stretching pose reference for a standing side bend: feet together, palms pressed overhead and the torso arched right in one long, clean C-curve.
- Yoga Poses
- yoga
- stretching
- side bend
- warm up
- flexibility
Free for personal and commercial use (CC0). License details
How to draw the Standing Side Stretch pose
Picture a single bow drawn from the left hip to the fingertips. With the feet together and grounded, the body bends sideways to the right, so the left side opens and lengthens while the right side folds, ribs and waist crowding together. Both arms reach overhead with the palms pressed flat, and the head sits between the upper arms, following the curve rather than looking up. Because the base is so narrow, the pelvis shifts slightly to the left to keep the mass over the feet, and the head ends up lower than in an upright stance.
The front and back views are the angles this stretch was made for. Both show the C-curve flat to the picture plane, and the back view adds the stretched flank and the compressed side of the spine. In the side view, figure facing left, the curve turns toward or away from you and becomes subtle, so use it mainly to confirm the body is not folding forward. The three-quarter view mixes both and gives a more natural-looking illustration. From the high angle the joined hands foreshorten toward the camera.
Watch out for a forward bend sneaking in, which shows up as a rounded back in profile. If the hips push out to the right, the same side as the bend, the figure looks as if it is falling over. And keep the palms together; arms that drift apart break the clean line that makes the shape readable.
Use it for yoga and warm-up illustrations, gym posters, morning-routine comics, or as a quick gesture study of a pure curve. In the editor, mirror the pose to bend to the left, or separate the hands slightly for a looser, sleepier morning stretch.
Standing Side Stretch pose prompt
Copy a prompt for your AI image generator. Pair it with the OpenPose skeleton in ControlNet so the generated character matches this exact pose.
General prompt
Full-body front view of a person doing a standing side stretch, feet together, both arms raised overhead with palms pressed together, torso arching to the right so the left side forms a long curve from hip to fingertips, head between the arms, plain background.
Midjourney
full body person standing side stretch, feet together, arms overhead with palms together, torso bending sideways to the right, long C curve, head between arms, calm focus, front view, plain background, yoga --ar 2:3 --style raw
Stable Diffusion
1person, full body, standing, stretching, side bend, arms up, arms overhead, palms together, hands together, leaning to side, feet together, curved body, yoga, warm up, calm, front view, simple background
Negative prompt
bending forward, hips pushed toward the bend, arms separated, feet apart, rounded back, looking up, twisted torso, extra arms, extra fingers, bad anatomy, deformed hands, fused fingers, blurry
OpenPose skeleton for ControlNet
Load the PNG into a ControlNet OpenPose unit (preprocessor: none), or import the JSON into an OpenPose editor.
Free to use (CC0)
The pose images on this page are released under CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication). Use them for drawing practice, commercial illustration, reference sheets or AI image generation; no attribution is required. A credit to PoseMaker is appreciated but optional.
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