Benefits
- Stretches your shoulders and improves flexibility of your upper spine.
- Calms the brain and nervous system therefore helps to relieve stress and therefore helps to relieve stress.
- Improves digestion and massages and stimulates the thyroid and prostate glands.
- Flushes mucous from your lungs.
- Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.
Cautions
- Neck or back problems
- Heavy period of menstruation
- High blood pressure
- Eye or inner ear infection
- Pregnancy
- Diarrhea
- Salamba Sarvagasana is considered an intermediate to advanced posture. If you are new to Yoga, we recommend you start with the beginner variations suggested at the end and then gradually work your way towards the full variation.