What Are the Benefits?

Standing Deep Breathing

  • Increases lung capacity and helps with breathing problems
  • Helps with insomnia, nervousness, and irritability
  • Good for heart and high blood pressure

Half Moon/Hands to Feet

  • Gives quick energy and vitality
  • Revitalizes liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys
  • Corrects bad posture

Awkward Pose

  • Increases hip joint flexibility and relieves muscular aches and cramps
  • Increases circulation to knees and ankles
  • Helps neuropathy

Eagle

  • Improves flexibility of ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, and shoulders
  • Relieves tension in neck and shoulders
  • Improves sexual vitality and control

Standing Head to Knee

  • Develops concentration, determination, and patience
  • Improves flexibility of sciatic nerve
  • Good for diabetes

Standing Bow Pulling Pose

  • Flushes out kidneys helping to eliminate toxins
  • Improves sciatica
  • Improves lower spine and relieves lower back pain

Balancing Stick

  • Strengthens the heart muscle
  • Improves circulation Triangle Pose - Ustrasana
  • Increase lung capacity

Standing Separate Leg Stretching

  • Helps and prevents sciatica
  • Helps functioning of most abdominal organs 
  • Brings blood to the brain

Triangle

  • Improves every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ
  • Revitalizes nerves, veins, and tissues
  • Improves crooked spines

Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee

  • Helps manic depression
  • Stretches, tones, and decongests the spinal column, nervous system
  • Massages the pancreas, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, spleen, and intestines

Tree Pose Tree Pose

  • Improves posture and balance
  • Improves circulatory disorders
  • Increases flexibility of ankles, knees, and hips


Toe Stand

  • Develops psychological and mental powers, especially patience
  • Good for the feet 
  • Helps with hemorrhoid problems


Dead Body Pose

  • Helps high blood pressure
  • Improves concentration
  • Good for hypertension, nervousness, anxiety, and irritability


Wind Removing Pose

  • Helps and prevents constipation and irritable bowel syndrome
  • Improves flexibility of the hip joints and relieves lower back pain
  • Stimulates the liver, small and large intestine, and spleen


Sit-up

  • Strengthens and tightens the abdomen
  • Increases flexibility of the spine, hamstrings, and sciatic nerve
  • Improves vitality


Cobra Pose

  • Increases spinal strength and flexibility, relieves low back pain
  • Helps relieve stress by improving functioning of kidneys and adrenals
  • Good for diabetes


Locust Pose

  • Same as Cobra
  • Clears out cholesterol in veins
  • Strengthens the immune system and revitalizes the thyroid


Full Locust Pose

  • Same as Cobra and Locust
  • Massages internal organs
  • Opens the chest


Bow Pose

  • Combines all the benefits of Cobra, Locust, and Full Locust
  • Good for diabetes
  • Improves flexibility of hip and shoulder joints


Fixed Firm Pose

  • Strengthens and improves flexibility of lower spine, knees, and ankles
  • Good for sciatica and varicose veins
  • Good prevention for hernia


Half Tortoise Pose

  • Provides maximum relaxation
  • Good for diabetes and anemia
  • Massages heart, lungs, and coronary arteries


Camel Pose

  • Good for osteoporosis
  • Good for diabetes, high blood pressure, and bronchial spasms
  • Good for constipation

Rabbit Pose

  • Maintain mobility and elasticity of spine and back muscles
  • Nurtures the nervous system, helps with depression
  • Stimulates all glands and organs of the body

Head to Knee with Stretching Pose

  • Helps balance blood sugar levels; good for diabetes
  • Good for immune system
  • Improves kidney function

Spine Twisting Pose

  • Increases circulation and nutrition to spinal nerves, veins, and tissues
  • Helps sciatica
  • Improves digestion

Blowing in Firm Pose

  • Improves oxygenation to the body, helps to rid it of toxins
  • Energizes and revitalizes the body, brings metal clarity and alertness
  • Good for respiratory ailments

Final Dead Body Pose

  • Brings you to another world
  • Increases feelings of gratitude
  • Stimulates peacefulness
 

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