Pavanamuktasana

July 25th, 2006

Wind, energy/free, liberated pose

• Lay on your back with a neatly folded blanket underneath your head
• Lift your feet of the floor with your knees bent so that the heels are close to your buttocks
• Lift your head and upper back to reach for legs. And embrace your fore arms around your shins interlinking your fingers together or holding one wrist in the other hand.
• Keep hold of your legs but roll your upper back, back down to the floor, and head back to your support, uncurling your vertebrae like a fern leaf.
• Breathe into any stiff areas and imagine that tension can escape from between the major joints like stale air and let the joints become increasingly refreshed by the breath.
• Stay for as long as the body feels like it is able to settle. Then release and lay on your back with the soles of your feet on the floor and arms stretched out to your sides.
• Then roll over onto your side. Come up from your side and onto your hands and knees

Contraindications- where difficult to reach your shins use a belt to bridge the gap between your hands or embrace the back odf the thighs between the calf and the thigh.

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