Body Balance - Yoga and fun "Crow Pose"

How-to: Come into a squat with your feet about as wide as your mat. Plant your palms on the ground under your shoulders, bend your arms slightly, and squeeze your knees firmly around your elbows or upper arms. Rock your weight forward into your hands, coming up high on your toes. Lift your feet off the ground.

Tips: Your feet will lift easily off the ground when your weight is more in front of your hands than behind them. Bend your elbows a bit more and lean your shoulders out past your wrists to shift your weight forward.

Benefits of Practising Crow Pose

Crow pose is one of the tough poses in yoga practice, mostly practiced by the advanced yogis (people practicing yoga for a long time). In this pose the whole body balances on the wrists, so people with wrist injury and spine problems are not recommended to praise this pose. This pose will strengthen the wrists, abdominal area and stretches the spinal cord.

Benefits of Crow Pose

• Strengthens your wrists and arms
• Stretches your upper back
• Strengthens abdominal muscles
• Opens the groins
• Tones all the abdominal organs

How to Practice The Crow Pose

• Initially it is recommended to practice this pose only under a yoga instructor or a yoga guru
• If possible come into the squat position and if that is hard to do then, start with tadasana and put your feet, hip externally rotated and apart. Now bend your knees till your palms reach the floor
• Keep the palms about shoulder distance apart in front of your body, and let the knees rest at the back of the arms (like triceps)
• To prepare yourself for the lift, lean forward on the hands and push the weight to the ground through your wrist. Now elevate your heels and push off the balls of your feet slowly
• When you get the control of your weight on your wrists and hands, slowly start lifting your feet off the ground
• Remain in that position as long as you can, and slowly get your feet to the ground
• Now slowly get the weight off the wrists and free them

Cautions

• People with wrist injuries and back pain should not do this pose
• People having Carpal tunnel syndrome are not recommended to practice this pose
• Pregnant woman must not practice this pose
  
  

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