Standing Head To Knee Pose

 Standing Head-to-Knee Pose: Dandayamana Janushirasana

Purposes and Benefits:

• Uses all major muscle groups
• Exercises digestive and reproductive organs
• Improves concentration and mental strength
• Unifies body and mind
• Tightens abdominal and thigh muscles
• Lessens/mitigates diabetic disorders
• Squeezes and flushes out ovaries, uterus, and internal abdominal organs, such as gall bladder, pancreas, and spleen
• Increases flexibility of sciatic nerves
• Strengthens the following: Tendons, hamstrings, and biceps of thigh muscles; Biceps, triceps, deltoids, trapezius, back muscles, latissimus dorsi, and scapula

How to Do:

• Evenly distribute weight over 4 points of standing foot
• Lock knee of standing leg
• Maintain tight grip with all 10 fingers
• Keep non-standing leg parallel to floor
• Suck in stomach and contract abdominal muscles
• Move foot toward face and past perpendicular position
• Touch elbows to calf muscle
• Tuck chin to chest, round spine, and touch forehead to knee