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Benefits:

  • Similar benefits to Cobra pose and even more effective in helping intervertebral disc conditions and sciatica
  • Firms buttocks and hips
  • Increases spinal strength, flexibility and circulation
  • Improves upper body strength
  • Improves flexibility and tone of spinal muscles
  • Helps relieve and prevent backache
  • Improves digestive system
  • Increases abdominal pressure and regulates intestinal function
  • Strengthens the abdominal wall
  • Helps correct bad posture
  • Improves function of liver and spleen
  • Strengthens shoulder, arm and back muscles
  • Compresses and opens spine
  • Relieves cervical spondylosis and back pain
  • Encourages concentration and perseverance

Tips:

  • Your hip stays on your forearm
  • Actively push your hands into the floor

Check that you:

  • Push your shoulders and not just your hands into the ground
  • Have your resting leg completely relaxed and not assisting in the elevation