Forward bend with hands against back

 

Benefits:

 
• Stretches the hips, hamstrings, and calves
• Strengthens the thighs and knees
• Keeps your spine strong and flexible
• Reduces stress, anxiety, depression, and fatigue
• Calms the mind and soothes the nerves
• Relieves tension in the spine, neck, and back
• Activates the abdominal muscles
• Eases symptoms of menopause, asthma, headaches, and insomnia
• Stimulates the kidneys, liver, spleen
• Improves digestion
• May lower high blood pressure
• Therapeutic for infertility, osteoporosis, and sinusitis

Contraindications and Cautions: 

 
Back injury: Do this pose with bent knees, or perform, with your hands on the wall, legs perpendicular to your torso, and arms parallel to the floor.