Yoga Instruction
Focus: Hamstrings
Level: Intermediate
Total Time: 60 seconds
Indications: stimulates liver and kidney, relieves headaches, insomnia menopausal symptoms
Contraindications: lower back injury, neck injury
The Big Toe :
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The big toe pose focuses on your hamstrings but offers many additional amazing benefits. It stretches your calves and thighs while energizing your liver and kidneys. It can also help improve your digestion. For women, the big toe can help relieve menopause symptoms and can help any headache sufferer or insomniac.
Note: you can perform this yoga pose seated or standing. These instructions are for the standing pose, which requires less balance and is a little easier to complete.
Pose Instruction
- Stand with your feet six inches apart. Raise your kneecaps by tensing your front thigh muscles . Without bending your knees, breathe out and fold your body forward at your hips, reaching your arms down until you can reach your feet. Keep your shoulders low, away from your ears.
- Place your index and middle finger on each side of your big toe and grip your toe by wrapping your fingers together with your thumb while pressing your toes into the ground.
- Breathe in, expanding your rib cage and keeping your back straight. Without rounding your back, straighten your arms. Extend the front of your body and breathe out.
- Relax your forehead and let your neck extend in a straight line from your spine as you breathe out.
- Breathe in, continuing to hold your big toes.
- To exit this pose, release your toes and raise your torso until you are standing upright, with arms at your sides.
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