Easy boat pose

 

 

Benefits:

 
• Tones and strengthens your abdominal muscles
• Improves balance and digestion
• Stretches your hamstrings
• Strengthens your spine and hip flexors
• Stimulates the kidneys, thyroid and prostate glands, and intestines
• Aids in stress relief
• Improves confidence

Contraindications and Cautions: 

 
• Asthma
• Diarrhea
• Headache
• Heart Problems
• Insomnia
• Low blood pressure
• Menstruation
• Pregnancy
• Neck injury: Sit with your back near a wall to perform this pose. As you tilt your torso back rest the back of your head on the wall.