SEATED FORWARD FOLD POSE

Benefits:

For your body:

  • Stretches both legs hamstrings
  • Relieves your low spine from tension
  • Improves your pelvic flexibility

For your mind:

  • Calms your mind by releasing pressure from your brain
  • Tests your patience to breath
  • Allows you to focus on a single subject

For your spirit:

  • “I can give into gravity and it will support me”
  • Let go and see how much farther you can go
  • It can bring appreciation to your foundation

(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 strap wrapped around your feet.
  • Place a block beneath your feet to extend your grip.

Pose Description:

  1. Start in a seated position.
  2. Send both feet out in front of you.
  3. Pull the extra glute flesh behind you.
  4. Flex your thighs and reach your arms overhead with peace fingers ready.
  5. Fold forward and grab your big toes with your peace fingers.
  6. Bend your elbows and extend your torso.
  7. Walk your glutes back and fold from your hips.
  8. Straighten your legs and lower your head.
  9. Breathe here for a few cycles.

Categories: Yoga Poses