1. It Looks Easy
Stand up with your bare feet on the floor. Place your feet so that your big toes are touching but your heels are not. Spread your toes. Keep one point of the balls of your feet in place, and extend the rest so that you stretch your feet. Shift your pelvis a bit forward, tighten your abs and butt, and straighten your backbone. Press your shoulder blades into your back and relax your shoulders. Turn your upper thighs in slightly without moving your feet. Let your arms hang to your sides relaxed. Keep your chin parallel to the floor and relax your face.
2. Reap the Benefits
Staying in the mountain position for lengths of time on a regular basis can improve your posture by training the muscles to hold your weight. This position also strengthens your thighs, knees, ankles, and tones your abs and butt. It can reduce flat feet by tightening the muscles in the arches. It also relieves sciatica pain immediately and can even cure it after a while.
3. Straight Like a Mountain
When attempting the mountain pose, some people feel like they are standing completely straight, when in fact, they are not. Do this pose against a wall to make sure alignment is right. Be sure your shoulder blades, the back of your head, your butt and feet are touching the wall. Find a yoga partner who can make sure you are perfectly straight. Have her ensure you have aligned your ears, hipbones, knees and feet. If you have troubled balancing in this pose, move your feet several inches apart.
4. Make it Hard
Challenge yourself further with the mountain pose by changing it up a bit. Once you have mastered the regular pose, stimulate your inner and outer sense of balance even more by practicing it with your eyes closed. It is much harder to balance without any reference to the outside world. Also, try to recreate this balanced feeling and all the muscle positions used for the mountain pose while in other standing yoga poses.
5. The Mountain Is Bad for Some
Some people should not try the mountain pose. Do not use this pose if you are suffering from a headache. Those who suffer from insomnia should not use it either, since it can stimulate the brain and make sleep even less likely.This yoga position if you have low blood pressure, which can make you light headed and make balance impossible.
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