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Benefits:

For your body:

• Releases your spine tension
• Stretches the fascia around your vertebrae
• Stimulates circulatory health
• Supports your nervous system regulation

For your mind:

• Teaches you to concentrate on letting go
• Surrendering is a calming activity
• Clears out negative thoughts

For your spirit:

• Removes blocks you may have about letting go
• Contentment can give you a presence
• A sense that you can surrender to gravity

(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:

• Bend both knees in to do the twist.
• Place a block below your elevated knee.
• Keep your hand on your knee or hip in the twist.

Pose Description:

1. Start on you back in a laying down position.
2. Bend your right knee to 90 degrees.
3. Extend your left arm and with your left hand pull your right knee across your body.
4. Engage your core to twist, shift your left hip under your right hip so they stack upon each other.
5. Lengthen your left leg and extend it to your upper back.
6. “T” out your arms and release your hands.
7. Gently stretch your neck and simply gaze over your right shoulder.
8. Learn to surrender your body here.
9. Breathe here for a few cycles.