WIND-REMOVING POSE

Benefits:

For your body:

  • Releases colon stress in the ascending and descending colon
  • Gently massages your lymphatic system specific to your pelvic lymph nodes
  • Massages your gut and lumbar

For your mind:

  • Reduces stress
  • Allows you to surrender your mind
  • Improves your concentration on your breath

For your spirit:

  • How we release can improve how we gain
  • Comfort continues by constant reflection and humility
  • Creates a union between your mind and body

(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 a pillow behind your head.
  • Use a strap or towel around your shins until you can reach your wrists, grow from here.

Pose Description:

  1. Start on your back in a laying down position.
  2. Bring your big toes to touch and extend your legs.
  3. Bend your right knee to your chest, basket grip your shin.
  4. Gently pull your leg around your ribs to your armpit.
  5. Bring your elbows into your sides.
  6. Engage your left thigh and perineum.
  7. Breathe here for a few cycles.
  8. (Bend both knees to your chest and grab your elbows around your shins.)
  9. Lower your spine to the floor.
  10. Breathe here for a few cycles.

Categories: Yoga Poses