Yoga Bow Pose

Instructions

• Start by lying on your stomach with your chin on the floor.
• Next, bend your knees and bring your heels towards your buttocks.
• Beginner Yogis: Reach back and grasp your ankles, keeping the rest of your body on the floor. Pull your heels into your buttocks.
• Intermediate Yogis: Raise yourself up off the floor by pressing your ankles away from you. Your chest and thighs should be raised off the floor.
• Advanced Yogis: Rock back and forth in bow pose, inhaling as you come forward, exhaling on the way back.

Duration

Start with 15 seconds, build up to 5 minutes.

Benefits

• Excellent for the respiratory system, relieving breathing problems and ailments such as asthma.
• Improves strength in the entire spine and back.
• Great pose for improving flexibility.
• The ultimate yoga pose to regulate your digestive system.
• Promotes weight loss.