Balancing Stick Pose: Tuladandasana

Purposes and Benefits:

• Provides full spinal stress relief
• Increases cardiovascular circulation, especially to blood vessels of heart
• Refines control and balance by enhancing physical and mental powers
• Improves posture
• Gives many benefits for legs that standing head-to-knee pose also gives
• Relieves spinal stress
• Reduces varicose veins
• Exercises liver, pancreas, spleen, and circulatory and nervous systems
• May help to clear blocked arteries and to prevent cardiac problems

How to Do:

• Keep knees locked and stomach in
• Point toes of non-standing foot
• Look for front foot in mirror
• Press arms against ears and remove any arm-to-ear gaps
• Stretch body toward both sides as though playing tug of war