The Corpse
- Focus: Neck
- Level: Beginner
- Total Time: 5 minutes per every half hour of yoga
- Indications: neck pain, stress, depression, high blood pressure
- Contraindications: modification for lower back injury
The Corpse
Note:
The purpose of the corpse is to calm your entire body. It offers relief to problems related to neck pain such as restlessness, exhaustion, and headaches. The corpse can lower your blood pressure and treat cases of stress and depression. Pregnant women should perform this pose with their chest and head raised on a means of support. Individuals with a lower back injury should keep their knees bent and their feet flat on the ground a comfortable distance from their hips throughout.
Pose Instruction
- Begin by sitting on the ground with your knees bent and your feet touching the ground. Lean your body back and support yourself on your forearms. Bearing the weight of your torso on your hands, slightly raise your abdomen from the ground and press it into your tailbone
- Breathe in and gently stretch your right leg out followed by your left, extending each leg through the soles of your feet. Relax your legs and your groin and ensure that your legs extend in line with your torso. Let your feet relax and turn out as they will. Tighten your abdomen and ease your lower back down onto the ground, followed by your shoulders and then your head.
- Use your hands to gently stretch the bottom of your skull away from your neck; stretch your spine down from the base of your neck into your tailbone. Your head should rest straight from all angles, facing straight up, and not tilted toward either shoulder.
- Extend your arms straight up toward the sky. Gently sway your torso back and forth to widen your ribs and separate your shoulder blades from your spine. Relax your arms until they rest on the ground by your sides with your palms facing up.
- Stretch your arms outward from your shoulder blades to your fingertips. Feel how your shoulder blades connect with the ground; their contact and pressure should be even. Visualize the ends of your shoulder blades rising crosswise into your back near the top of your chest.
- Expand your collarbones. Allow your organs to ease up, including your tongue, nose wings, inner ears and forehead. Let your eyes relax and stare toward your chest. Ease and relax your brain.
- Remain in this pose for five minutes per every half hour of yoga.
- To release yourself from this position, breathe out and roll onto your right side. Take a couple of breaths. Exhale and press your hands into the ground to raise your body.
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