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Benefits:

  • A rejuvenation pose providing maximum relaxation
  • Assists in relieving digestion problems and constipation
  • Physically stretches lower part of the lungs, increases lung capacity
  • Excellent for respiratory conditions
  • Increases circulation to the brain
  • Firms the abdomen and thighs
  • Increases flexibility of hip joints
  • Improves mobility of shoulder girdle and associated muscles (scapula, deltoids, triceps, latissimus dorsi)
  • May relieve stress and migraines
  • Helps with insomnia

Tips:

  • This is an active pose. Keep working with the breath to find traction in your body between fingertips and hips
  • Getting into and out of this pose effectively and easily relies on solid core strength

Check that you:

  • Keep your shoulders positioned away from the ears to elongate the neck. Just as in Half Moon, a tension-free shoulder and neck area is priority over straight locked out arms