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Yoga
Downward Facing Dog/ Adho Mukha Svanasana
By FITTR
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PT0S
20 Nov 2020
2020-11-20T12:38:50.000Z
Preparation
This pose helps in calming the brain and relieving stress, energizing the body, stretching the arms, shoulders, hamstrings and calves, improving digestion, relieving headache, insomnia, back pain and fatigue. Let's check the steps: Sit down and place your palms and knees on the floor Look at the floor.
Method
Step 1
Now, inhale, raise your hips & knees up and lower the head between the arms so that the back and legs form two sides of a triangle
Step 2
Keep the knees and hands straight, gaze on the floor
Step 3
Push the heels and head towards the floor
Step 4
Hold the pose for 5 breaths
Step 5
Release the pose, relax in the Child's Pose
Step 6
Precautions: People with diarrhoea, migraine, headache, high blood pressure or carpel tunnel syndrome should not practise this posture
