Balasana (Child's Pose)
bala = child
Step by Step
Kneel on the floor. Touch your big toes together and sit on your heels, then separate your knees about as wide as your hips.
Exhale and lay your torso down between your thighs. Broaden your sacrum
across the back of your pelvis and narrow your hip points toward the
navel, so that they nestle down onto the inner thighs. Lengthen your
tailbone away from the back of the pelvis while you lift the base of
your skull away from the back of your neck.
Lay your hands on the floor alongside your torso, palms up, and release
the fronts of your shoulders toward the floor. Feel how the weight of
the front shoulders pulls the shoulder blades wide across your back.
Balasana is a resting pose. Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few
minutes. Beginners can also use Balasana to get a taste of a deep
forward bend, where the torso rests on the thighs. Stay in the pose from
1 to 3 minutes. To come up, first lengthen the front torso, and then
with an inhalation lift from the tailbone as it presses down and into
the pelvis.This Asana Focuses on Thighs.
Benefits
- Gently stretches the hips, thighs, and ankles
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and fatigue
- Relieves back and neck pain when done with head and torso supported
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