child’s pose – balasana
A quick step-by-step guide for moving through the restorative Child’s Pose in your yoga practice.
A quick step-by-step guide for moving through the restorative Child’s Pose in your yoga practice.
A quick step-by-step guide for moving through the restorative Child’s Pose in your yoga practice.
Connect your big toes together and sit on your heels, then place your knees about as wide as your hips, or slightly wider if there is any discomfort.
Expand your backside across the back of your abdomen and narrow your hip points toward the navel, so that they snuggle down onto the inner thighs. Expand your tailbone far from the back of the abdomen while you raise the base of your skull away from the back of your neck.
Discharge the fronts of your shoulders toward the floor. Feel how the heaviness of the front shoulders pulls the shoulder bones wide over your back and rest your forehead on the mat.
Beginner practitioners can also use this pose to get a taste of a deep forward bend, where the torso rests on the thighs. Remain in this posture for one to three minutes. To come up, first, protract the front middle, and with an inward breath lift your body from the tailbone as it pushes down and into the pelvis.
If you have difficulty sitting on your heels in this pose, put a heavy, folded blanket between your shins and back thigh.
– Helps to ease stress and fatigue as well as calm the brain
– Lightly stretches the thighs, hips, and ankles
– Eases neck and back pain
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