1. Don't Dive Right In
Try the camel pose with the help of blocks at first, since the backbend pose can be strenuous on the neck and back for beginners. Kneel on the floor on your knees, with your legs shoulder width apart. Place the blocks just outside your calves. Keep your feet firmly pressed to the floor and your thighs perpendicular to the floor. Bending at the hips and waist, slowly arch your back until your hands reach the blocks. Keep your hips thrust forward. Your arms should be straight with your elbows locked. Keep your shoulders down and your neck relaxed, allowing your head to fall back. When you can easily do the backbend pose with the blocks, remove the blocks and grab your ankles instead.
2. Put Down the Weights
Practicing the camel yoga pose can strengthen many parts of your body including your ankles, thighs, groins, abdomen, chest, spine, shoulders and neck. This is an excellent pose to hold if you are trying to build muscle. Overtime you can also tone muscles in the biceps, back, glutes, and abs. Strengthening comes from holding the position for a length of time. As a beginner, hold the pose for 10 breaths, relax and then repeat it.
3. Means Fewer Trips to the Doctor
This pose can cure and treat respiratory ailments, fatigue, anxiety and menstrual discomfort. The camel pose can even help digestion and reproductive problems by stretching your internal organs. Regular practice of this pose can regulate the thyroid too. Back-bending poses, like this one, also stimulate the vertebrae and improve back problems.
4. No Camel Humps with the Camel Pose
The camel pose is a great exercise for posture and flexibility. This position stretches the entire front of the body--the ankles, thighs, groins, chest and throat. The camel pose also makes hips more flexible, reducing the risk of hip injury that comes later in life. This pose can improve posture as a result of strengthening the area around the spine. With regular practice of this position, you can eventually develop a long and lean frame.
5. Challenge Yourself
Once you have mastered this position and can hold it for 10 breaths, it is time to further challenge yourself by deepening the position. Put your legs together, and firmly press your inner feet, ankles, knees and inner thighs together before moving into the camel position. Hold for as long as you are comfortable.
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