This asana tones the spine and expands the chest to the maximum. This invigorating posture also calms the mind. It improves blood supply to the brain, increases mental abilities. Activates the pituitary and pineal glands, which affect the health, vitality and development of the body. Improves hearing, vision, activity of all sense organs. Improves breathing, digestion, memory, intelligence. Eliminates melancholy, neurasthenia, hysteria, obsessive fears.
EXERCISE ORDER
Lie flat on the floor. Bend your knees and bring your feet close to your buttocks.
Bend your elbows, rotate your hands, and place your palms on the floor next to your shoulders. Keep your fingers outstretched. Inhale as you lift your buttocks and back off the floor and place the top of your head on the floor.
Raise your right hand and place your palm behind your head, keeping your elbow and forearm on the floor. Do the same with the other hand. Interlock the fingers of both hands. The head will be in a bowl formed by the hands, as in Sirshasana.
Press both forearms into the floor, lift your buttocks and stretch your legs one by one. You have assumed the pose of Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana.
Slightly pull your legs towards you, for a more stable position. Exhale and lift your left leg vertically up and keep your right leg on the floor in Viparita Dandasana.
Hold this position for 10 seconds, breathing normally.
Lower your left leg and return to Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana. Then, with an exhalation, lift the right leg vertically and hold the pose for the same duration.
Return to Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana, disengage the lock of the palms. Push off the floor with your hands and move your head behind the back of your head. As you exhale, lower yourself onto your back, rest a little.
ATTENTION
It is not recommended to perform in the presence of injuries of the spine and back. Also for people with hypertension.
Before doing the exercise, warm up the cervical spine.