Benefits:

For your body:

• Stretches your upper back
• Gives a way to reach inversion postures
• Strengthens your shoulders

For your mind:

• Trust yourself to try
• Increases oxygen to your brain to help improve your thinking
• Increases the concentration of breath while inverted

For your spirit:

• Encourages you that you can do anything
• Happy when you get it

(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:

• Interlace your fingers.
• Bend your knees more.

Pose Description:

1. Start from a downward-dog position.
2. Lower your forearms to the ground in a number “11”.
3. Suction your palms to the mat.
4. Step your feet toward your elbow 2 or 3 steps.
5. Release your head and engage your abdominal.
6. Breathe here for a few cycles.