Benefits:

For your body:

• Stretches your spine
• Stimulates your equilibrium
• Engages toes and tones inner thighs

For your mind:

• It helps you focus your mind more on how your breath feels.
• It helps you think more clearly.
• It gives you the experience of hearing profound quiet thoughts going on in your mind

For your spirit:

• Balances you from inside-out
• Strengthens your connection to intuition
• Even when everything feels restricted, you can still get through it if you focus and breath.

(DISCLAIMER: DO THESE POSES TO YOUR ABILITY; YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN BODY AND WHAT YOU DO. BE SAFE, AND YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.)

Modifications:

• Place your fingertips or palms on the floor or your front thigh.
• Put a block on either side of your front leg to support your balance getting used to your head below your heart.
• Bend your knees more to get comfortable.

Pose Descriptions:

1. Start in a standing position.
2. Reach your arms over your head.
3. Steeple grip your hands to stretch your back.
4. Step forward onto your right foot.
5. (2-3 feet distance between your feet.)
6. Bend your knees a tiny bit to release your hips.
7. Lengthen your spine and draw your chin down toward your chest.
8. Keep your chin here and curl forward from hands to arms and down.
9. Gaze at your knee to control balance, then diverge your eyes to your belly button.
10. Place your forehead on your knee with reduced tension.
11. Gently graze your pinky fingers on your mat.
12. Press your feet down slowly to feel your hips level with the floor.
13. Breathe here for a few cycles.
14. Exit by rewinding.

Relax, Rest, and Practice Again. You Can Do This! You Are A Yogi!