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Benefits:

  • The arching of the spine increases flexibility and strength
  • Rejuvenates spinal nerves enriching them with a rich blood supply
  • Improves flexibility and tone of spinal muscles, massages, works and tones back muscles
  • Helps relieve and prevent lower backache
  • Improves core strength
  • Helps heal or relieve lumbago, rheumatism, arthritis and menstrual problems
  • Helps cure loss of appetite
  • Stretches the thoracic region and expands the rib cage bringing respiratory benefits and possible relief from asthma
  • Gentle pressure on the abdomen massages all organs and improves their function
  • Strengthens deltoids, trapezius and triceps
  • Compresses and opens spine
  • Relieves cervical spondylosis
  • Improves concentration
  • May help relieve  certain utero-ovarine and menstrual issues

Tips:

  • Start and finish with your chin forward
  • Use your eyes to take you higher (look where you are going)

Check that you:

  • Keep your quadriceps engaged. Most people just have straight legs
  • Are not pushing with your hands (unlike other yoga Cobra poses where pushing with the hands is required)
  • Keep your shoulders down away from the ears