YOGAREVELATION
INVERSIONS
Downward Dog:
Start on all fours, with your hands directly under shoulders and fingers spread wide. Take an inhale and on the exhale, lift your hips by straightening your legs. Keep your arms straight and draw your shoulder blades onto your back. Let your neck stay in line with your spine. Hold for several breaths and counter pose by coming into Child’s Pose. This pose lengthens hamstrings, calves and chest muscles. The inversion relieves stress, anxiety and strengthens will power. Also, helps digestive system, insomnia, and low back pain.
Standing Spread-Leg Pose:
Stand with your legs roughly 4-5 feet apart. (The distance of your arms extended) Have your feet parallel. Place hands on hips, and on an inhalation take a slight back bend. On an exhalation, fold forward from the hips and let yourself reach for the floor. Completely relax your neck and spine. Use your hands to press into the ground and continue to breathe deeply and slowly while staying in this pose for 5-10 breaths. Inhale as you slowly rise back up to avoid dizziness. This pose improves digestion and circulation. It is very calming for the nervous system and increases will power. It lengthens hamstrings and strengthens lower back.
Plow Pose:
Start by lying on your back with your palms on the ground. On an inhale, raise legs up together and on an exhale, let them fall overhead to where they can reach. If the feet can touch the ground, curl your toes to help push your heels up. Keep chin close to chest in this pose and breathe slowly and deeply for several breaths. If your feet do not touch the ground, simply let legs stay where they can reach and breathe into them. You can bring hands to back to help with balance. This pose gives flexibility to the spine and neck. It helps nourish the spinal nerves and massages the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Also, the inversion helps remove settled sediments in the internal organs.
