Dandasana
Seated Staff
Benefits:
Physical:
Emotional:
Method:
Props: sitting up on a folded blanket will help with spine alignment
Physical:
- Strengthens thighs, back, and core
- Helps to fix poor posture
- Strenghtens the lungs
- good for sciatica
Emotional:
- Centering
Method:
- Sit with legs straight in front of you, toes point towards the ceiling
- Place hands next to hips, keep spine vertical, looking straight ahead
- Push through the heals and ground down though the legs
- Pull up through the core
- Gradually lift your chest and drop your shoulder blades down towards your back
- Press into the floor through the hands
- Stretch up through the vertebra
- Hold for 5 to 10 breaths.
Props: sitting up on a folded blanket will help with spine alignment