How To Do The Shoulder Stand Posture Video

The Shoulder Stand Posture stretches the shoulders and neck. Learn how to do the Shoulder Stand Posture in this yoga video.

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Lie on back
Extend legs toward sky
Lift back off floor
Breathe properly

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, Faith is going to help me demonstrate the shoulder stand. The shoulder stand is an inversion which is going to reverse the flow of gravity in your body. So it allows all those stagnant toxic energy that's stuck down in your feet from walking around all day to come down, stimulate your circulatory system and flush your heart with new fresh blood. So we're going to have Faith come on down on her back. She's going to extend her legs up to the sky just by hinging at the hips. Pressing into her hand, she's going to roll up to her shoulders, draw the bellybutton in and inhale and exhale, lifting up and lifting her legs. Now, she wants to roll to as high up on her shoulders as she can and she wants to think about lifting her hips way up to the sky, so she can lengthen her legs up and get as long as spine as she is able too today. Remember your balance is different. Your body is different every day. So you want to keep thinking about rolling those shoulders under and lifting up. She wants to keep her chin tucked into her chest and not move your head either way. It's not good for your neck to do that. So, she's engaging her thighs, pressing up. She could either point her toes of flex her feet. Keep lengthening. Notice how she has her hands on her spine for support. And ideally, the elbows come straight out from your shoulders. So she's allowing all the toxic stagnant blood that's been sitting in her system from gravity pulling it going to pull it down in the opposite direction now, giving her chest, her lungs, her heart and her head new fresh blood and energy. So, it's a shoulder stand, the king of all poses. So important to reverse the flow of gravity and use your breath.

How to Do the Shoulder Stand Posture Video

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