Depending upon the source, (http://www.physioroom.com/prevention/stretching4_9.php), http://www.holisticonline.com/yoga/hol_yoga_pos_cobra.htm ) and the method of execution, benefits can be simple to profound. Our goal in executing this stretch is to simply increase the core and spinal flexibility and mobility.
Primary Benefits
- Stretches abdomen chest and lungs and frontal shoulders,
Additional Benefits ( http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/471)
- Strengthens the spine
- Firms the buttocks
- Stimulates abdominal organs
- Helps relieve stress and fatigue
- Opens the heart and lungs
- Soothes sciatica
- Therapeutic for asthma
- Lying prone with the hands underneath the shoulders,
- Stretch your legs back, tops of the feet on the floor
- With the elbows hugging the body;
- On an inhalation, begin to straighten the arms to lift the chest off the floor, going as far up based on the limit of your abdominal flexiblity;
- Do not hold the breathe, but instead breathe naturally, fully and easily;
- Hold the stretch anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds;
- Release back to the floor with an exhalation;
- Repeat 2-3 times for a good stretch.
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