Benefits:

For your body:

• Intense stretch for your hamstring muscle
• Good for helping with blood flow to your brain
• Increases balance and strength in your ankles

For your mind:

• Stimulates your equilibrium which centers your mind
• Concentrates your mind on a new perspective that takes effort
• Focus’ you to elevate yourself out of anxiety and into a calmer state of mind

For your spirit:

• You can overcome fear
• You are stronger than you think you are, just kick a little more
• Letting go of imbalance will give you the strength to understand balance in this pose

(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:

• Place two blocks in front of you to keep your balance.
• Use a wall to plant your foot on to increase your stretch.
• Bend your standing leg.
• Use a chair to support your balance.

Pose Description:

1. Start from a forward fold position.
2. Root your weight to the sole of your right foot.
3. Release your left foot of the ground.
4. Lift your left heel to the ceiling.
5. Relax your neck and engage your abdominal.
6. (This is an intense stretch.)
7. Kick your lifted left leg straight as you can.
8. Soften your upper back, control the stretch.
9. Clasp your ankle with your hands.
10. Place your forehead to your shin.