Eagle Pose: Garurasana
Purposes and Benefits:
- Works into 12 major joints of body
- Warms body and readies it for next 3 poses
- Promotes health of central nervous system
- Enhances lymphatic functions
- Improves balance, hip-joint mobility, and immune system
- Strengthens deltoid, trapezius, and legs
- Reduces varicose veins
How to Do:
More detailed instructions
- Remember to breathe
- Pull in stomach and keep it away from thighs
- Position fingers below nose
- Keep palms together
- Enter sitting posture and maintain straight spine
- Squeeze knees and thighs together in all areas that you feel contact between them to increase tourniquet effect
- Focus body weight onto heel of standing foot and eventually eliminate gap between wrapped foot and back of standing leg
