Learn how to do Supported Shoulder Stand Pose (Salamba Sarvangasana). This video tutorial will teach you the proper alignment and technique to help you safely move into Supported Shoulder Stand Pose.
Supported Shoulder Stand Pose is a calming inversion that still works your muscles. This inverted yoga pose provides many internal and external rewards.
Benefits of Supported Shoulder Stand Pose:
- Tones leg and glute muscles
- Stretches your neck and shoulders
- Stimulates thyroid, prostate, and abdominal organs
- Calms your mind and alleviates insomnia
- Improves digestion
How to do Supported Shoulder Stand Pose:
1. Start on your back with your knees pulled in toward your chest.
2. Plant your hands flat down next to your hips.
3. Straighten your legs upward, then push down through your hands to lift your hips up, bringing your legs over your head.
4. Once your toes touch the ground, inch your shoulders one by one to rise up high onto the tips of your shoulders.
5. Place the palms of your hands as high as you can on the bottom part of your back ribs.
6. Squeeze your elbows in and make sure they are no wider than your shoulders.
7. Lengthen your neck and make sure not to turn your head at all while in this position.
8. Lift one leg up, and then the other. Lengthen from the elbows all the way up through the tips of your toes as you point them.
9. Squeeze your feet together, firm your inner thighs, and draw your navel and ribs inward.
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