Don’t be a Valentines Day hater, give your heart a holiday. This pose is a gift you can give to your well deserved heart, it takes on a lot.
How to:
Sit in Dandasana (Staff Pose) with your hands several inches behind your hips and your fingers pointing forward. Bend your knees and place your feet on the floor, big toes turned inward, heels at least a foot away from your sit bones.
Exhale, press your inner feet and hands down against the floor, and lift your hips until you come into a reverse tabletop position, torso and thighs approximately parallel to the floor, shins and arms are perpendicular.
Without losing the height of your hips, straighten your legs one at a time. Lift your hips still higher without hardening your buttocks. Press toes into the ground; this will lift your hips higher.
Without compressing the back of your neck, slowly drop your head back.
Hold for 30 seconds, then sit back down in Dandasana (Staff Pose) with an exhale.
Benefits:
· Opens heart center
· Strengthens the arms, wrists and legs
· Stretches the shoulders, chest, and front ankles
· Relieves fatigue
· Wrist opener for those who write and type all day
BE GOOD TO YOUR HEART, NAMASTE!!
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