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Benefits:

  • Excellent cardiovascular pose. Can increase circulation to heart blood vessels
  • Said to have great cardiac benefit and possibly help prevent future cardiac problems
  • Creates a total spine stretch
  • Relieves stress from spine
  • Good for varicose veins
  • Builds strength in legs
  • Exercises pancreas, spleen, liver, nervous and circulatory system
  • Pose involves the use of traction to create space in the joints and spine

Tips:

  • Keep your chin away from your chest. Dropping it will create shoulder and neck tension
  • Look forward a couple of yards (meters) ahead (not down at your foot)!

Check that you:

  • Stay strong and plank-like even if it means you go no further than a few degrees off vertical. This pose only works if your arms, head, torso and legs are long and strong and in a straight line