Benefits:

For your body:

• Stimulates your spines fascia strength
• Encourages tricep and overall arm strength
• Focus’ your oblique muscle engagement and whole core engagement

For your mind:

• Centers your mind as you focus your gaze on one point you’re looking at
• Concentrates your mind on a different perspective of gravity and how your body stacks in a different position
• Increases your focus on just your breath

For your spirit:

• Removes fight or flight responses by making you feel like you will fall, but you won’t
• Strengthens your belief that you can stand on one hand
• Improves your posture and this will lead to greater confidence in oneself, you are great

(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:

• Begin in a tabletop position to bolster yourself with your knee.
• Take a forearm plank if you have a wrist injury.
• Have a wall nearby to support your back.

Pose Description:

1. Start from a push-up position.
2. Place your weight unto the palm of your left hand and exhale.
3. Rotate your feet left so the “knife-edge” of your foot is on the mat.
4. Gently flex your feet.
5. Lift your right hand to the sky.
6. Gaze at the wall and breath.