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Shoulderstand
(Salamba Sarvangasana): benefits include calming the brain helping to relieve stress and mild depression. Stimulates the thyroid and prostate glands and abdominal organs. Stretches the shoulders and neck, tones the legs glutes. Helps to improve digestion & relieve the symptoms of menopause, fatigue, insomnia. Therapeutic for asthma, infertility, and sinusitis.
Downward Facing Dog
(Adho Mukha Svanasana): Calms the brain, energizes the body and relieves mild depression. Benefits include stretching the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands. Strengthens the arms and legs. Improves digestion, relieves symptoms of menopause, headache, insomnia, back pain and fatigue.
Therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet, sciatica, sinusitis. Helps prevent osteoporosis.
Dancer
(Natarajasana): benefits include stretching the shoulders, chest, thighs, groin, and abdomen. Strengthens the legs and ankles. Improves balance.
Natarajasana helps to Builds inner and outer steadiness and imbues a psychological lift and opens the heart.
Boat
(Navasana): benefits include strengthening the abdomen, hip flexors, and spine. Navasana helps to stimulate the kidneys, intestines, thyroid and prostate glands. This pose can also help improve digestion & relieve stress. Legs extended fully helps lengthen the hamstrings.
Incline or Upward Plank pose
(Purvottanasana): benefits include strengthening the arms, wrists and legs as well as stretching the shoulders, chest, and front of the ankles. Also helps to relieve fatigue.
Standing Straddle Splits
(Prasarita Padottanasana): benefits include strengthening and stretching the inner and back legs and the spine while toning the abdominal organs. When head is fully relaxed we open the neck and can release tension which will help ease headaches, fatigue and even mild depression.
For those who are experiencing lower back problems give the knees a slight bend and avoid going forward fully.
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