CORPSE POSE

(Corpse Pose)

Benefits:

For your body:

  • Assists complete release of muscles
  • Encourages a unified body
  • A place of complete rest and recovery for your brain
  • Helps improve better blood flow to your skin

For your mind:

  • Relaxes thoughts away thru a soft focus to concentrate your mind
  • Allows you time to reflect on yourself and why you just practiced
  • A place to do nothing, to just let go and be

For your spirit:

  • Unifies your mind and body through rest
  • Increases an observation of continence
  • Happiness is a place of tranquility and bliss

(Your body is your own so be sure to do these poses the certain way your body needs to do them, not the way my body does them in the pictures.)

Modifications:

  • Use a pillow beneath your knees.
  • Place a blanket over you.
  • Put one hand on your heart and one on your belly.
  • Place a pillow behind your head.

Pose Description:

  1. Start on your back in a laying down position.
  2. Separate your feet your hip-width or comfortably wider.
  3. Flex your feet.
  4. Open your palms up and lengthen your fingers gently.
  5. Relax your smile and eys.
  6. Feel a slow lengthening in your spine.
  7. Pick a point in your body and focus on it while you release your practice.
  8. Let go of every muscle by light engagement and gentle awareness.

Categories: Yoga Poses