Dandayamana Bibhaktapada Paschimotthansana

Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose​

Benefits

  • Inversion posture – pumps oxygen rich blood into the brain
  • Improves flexibility of the hamstrings, hips, lower, middle and upper back
  • Tones legs and hip muscles
  • Reenergizes brain cells
  • Combats anxiety and depression
  • Stimulates the nervous system through the stretching of the spine
  • Stimulates the hypothalamus which regulates hormones that play an important part in many essential functions of the body like balancing blood sugar, regulating body weight, balancing sleep and wake cycles etcetera
  • Anti-aging posture
  • Most important forward bending stretch you have to learn
  • Reduces abdominal obesity
  • Improves circulation to the adrenal glands and digestive organs
  • Relieves lower back and sciatic pain