Category: Backbend
Difficulty: Intermediate
Benefits: Improves posture. Strengthens the spine, arms, and wrists. Stretches the chest, lungs, shoulders, and abdomen. Firms the buttocks. Stimulates abdominal organs. Helps relieve mild depression, fatigue, and sciatica. Therapeutic for asthma.
Up Next in Season 1
-
Seated Forward Bend (Paschimottanasana)
Category: Seated
Difficulty: Beginner
Benefits: Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression. Stretches the spine, shoulders and hamstrings. Stimulates the liver, kidneys, ovaries and uterus. Improves digestion. Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause and menstrual discomfort. S... -
Spinal Twist (Supta Jathara Parivarta...
Category: Twist
Difficulty: Beginner
Benefits: Stretches the back muscles and spine. Stimulates the kidneys, abdominal organs, urinary bladders and intestines. Releases stress. If the knee is straightened, it stretches the hamstrings and strengthens the legs. -
Warrior I (Varabhadrasana I)
Category: Standing
Difficulty: Beginner
Benefits: Stretches the chest, lungs, shoulders, neck, belly and groin (psoas). Strengthens the shoulders, arms and back muscles. Strengthens and stretches the thighs, calves and ankles.
