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- Hand Under Foot Pose: Padahastasana
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Hand Under Foot Pose is a relaxing pose with many benefits:
- Lengthens the hamstrings, back body and wrists
- Relaxes the neck and shoulders
- Calms the mind
- Therapeutic for carpal tunnel syndrome
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- Standing Wide-Legged Forward Bend Pose: Prasarita Padottanasana
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Standing Wide-Legged Forward Bend Pose has several benefits:
- Stretches the groins, hamstrings and hips
- Calms the mind
- Decompresses the spine
- Relieves fatigue, mild depression and anxiety
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- Pose Dedicated to the Sage Marichi I: Marichyasana I
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This seemingly simple, yet challenging pose offers many benefits:
- Stretches the hips, hamstrings and shoulders
- Activates the abdominal organs
- Stimulates digestion and metabolism
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- Seated Forward Bend: Paschimottanasana
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Seated Forward Bend is a basic yet challenging pose with several benefits:
- Stretches the hamstrings, spine, and lower back
- Calms the mind, and relieves stress and anxiety
- Improves digestion
- Relieves symptoms of PMS and menopause
- Reduces fatigue
- Stimulates the liver, kidneys, ovaries, and uterus
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- Dolphin Pose
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Dolphin Pose is considered a forward bend and an inversion with many benefits:
- Strengthens the shoulders and arms
- Tones the abdominals
- Stretches the hamstrings
- Helps prepare the body for forearm balance
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- Wide Seated Forward Bend Pose: Upavistha Konasana
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- Stretches the adductor muscles of your groin
- Stretches your hamstring muscles
- Strengthens the supportive musculature of your spine
- Encourages activation of your core muscles
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- Downward Facing Dog Pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana
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- 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
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- Standing Forward Bend: Uttanasana
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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.
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- Bound Angle Pose: Baddha Konasana
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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.
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- Head to Knee Pose: Janu Sirsasana
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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.






