Yoga - Hare Pose - Women's Fitness

Yoga - Hare Pose - part of the women's fitness video series by GeoBeats. Today I am going to show you the hare pose, Shashankasana. It is very rarely done, and it has been passed down in our lineage from Yogi Gupta to Dharma Mittra. And now to us teaching classes on a daily basis. So I am happy to show it to you. Come into a position sitting on the heels. This is called vajrasana, or thunderbolt. Then bring the hands to the heels with the thumbs around the outside. Inhale and arch the back, lifting the chest up, looking up. Exhale, bring the head down toward the floor. And on an inhalation, lift the hips, rolling onto the very center of the top of the head. Close the eyes, concentrating on the space between the eyebrows now, making the posture into a meditation. To come out, bring the seat toward the heels, and roll up one vertebrae at a time, finishing with a little back-bend again, and returning to the thunderbolt position. So, this posture is excellent to practice if you are preparing to work on headstands. So, you should do this for a few months, up to a year, before starting the headstand posture. It helps to increase mental sharpness, the flexibility of the spine, and also strengthens the neck and the cervical vertebrae.