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