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
