About the Pose
This is a very popular pose in most yoga classes, referred to as “Downward Dog”. It is practiced repeatedly in a flow class. The weight of your head helps to traction your spine, creating more space, as you continually lift your hips away from your hands. It is a great stretch and strengthener for your shoulders and reverses the gravitational pull on your spine towards the floor.
Benefits from the Pose
This dynamic inversion encourages increased circulation to your brain, helping to soothe your nervous system and promote mental clarity and calm.
By elongating your spine and creating traction between your hands and hips, this pose creates space between your vertebrae while providing a revitalizing stretch along the sides of your body.
