• Standing Forward Bend: Uttanasana
    Standing Forward Bend: Uttanasana

    The Standing Forward Bend pose:

    • Stretches your hips, hamstrings, and calves.
    • Strengthens your thighs and knees.
    • Massages your internal organs and helps improves digestion and cleanses mucous from the lungs.
    • Relaxes you central nervous system and helps calm your mind
    • Helps relieve stress
    • Helps reduces headaches, fatigue, insomnia.
    • Helps relieve symptoms of menopause and is therapeutic for osteoporosis.
  • Child Pose: Balasana
    Child Pose: Balasana
    • Gently stretches your lower back, hips, thighs, knees, and ankles
    • Relaxes your spine, shoulders, and neck
    • Increases blood circulation to your head which reduces headaches
    • Massages your internal organs
    • Calms the mind (central nervous system) thus helping relieve stress and tension
  • Downward Facing Dog Pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana
    Downward Facing Dog Pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana
    • Elongates and releases tension from your spine
    • Stretches your hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands
    • Strengthens your arms, shoulders, and back
    • Improves mobility of your digestive system
    • Downward-Facing Dog is a mild inversion that calms the nervous system and helps relieve stress
  • Wide Seated Forward Bend Pose: Upavistha Konasana
    Wide Seated Forward Bend Pose: Upavistha Konasana
    • Stretches the adductor muscles of your groin
    • Stretches your hamstring muscles
    • Strengthens the supportive musculature of your spine
    • Encourages activation of your core muscles
  • Bound Angle Pose: Baddha Konasana
    Bound Angle Pose: Baddha Konasana

    Bound Angle pose is a classic forward bending yoga posture that offers numerous benefits.  Bound Angle pose,

    • Stretches and expands your inner thigh, groin and knee muscles.
    • Stretches your lower back and upper gluteal muscles, when you are in the forward bend variation.
    • Massages your abdominal organs and improves digestive circulation.
  • Head to Knee Pose: Janu Sirsasana
    Head to Knee Pose: Janu Sirsasana

    As a forward bending yoga posture, Head to Knee Pose generates an array of nourishing benefits.  The Head to Knee Pose:

    • Stretches your spine, back muscles, hamstrings, and groins.
    • Massages and stimulates your internal organs like the liver and kidneys.
    • Improves digestion and helps heal gastric ailments.
    • Calms the mind and central nervous system.