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Benefits:
- Excellent cardiovascular pose. Can increase circulation to heart blood vessels
- Said to have great cardiac benefit and possibly help prevent future cardiac problems
- Creates a total spine stretch
- Relieves stress from spine
- Good for varicose veins
- Builds strength in legs
- Exercises pancreas, spleen, liver, nervous and circulatory system
- Pose involves the use of traction to create space in the joints and spine
Tips:
- Keep your chin away from your chest. Dropping it will create shoulder and neck tension
- Look forward a couple of yards (meters) ahead (not down at your foot)!
Check that you:
- Stay strong and plank-like even if it means you go no further than a few degrees off vertical. This pose only works if your arms, head, torso and legs are long and strong and in a straight line