Ardha Adho Mukha Vrksasana

Half hand stand against the wall

Benefits: 
Physical:

• Energizes the entire body 
  
• Good for the Circulatory System, 

        Muscular System,
        Respiratory System and  
        Skeletal System

• Strengthening
• Over time strengthens wrists
• Opens the shoulders

Emotional:

• builds self-confidence  
  
• dispels fear 
  
• Brings joy and overrides lethargy
• Good for lethargy

Cautions:

• ​ serious shoulder or wrist injury
• menstruation
  
• pregnant
  
• headache
  
• High blood pressure

Method:

1. Begin by kneeling in vajrasana, with your hands on your thighs and your toes touching the wall.
2. Fold down into child pose and stretch arms out as far as they will reach
3. Do not move your hands as you come up into table top
4. Go into downface dog with the ankles and feet together
5. move the chest towards the thighs
6. lift the right foot up to hip height, keeping the knees level
7. Press into the wall lifting the left foot to the wall next to the right foot as you straighten the knees
8. the head hangs down
9. walk the feet back down the wall.
10. Rest the heart in child pose
11. Repeat with the left foot