Banana - Savasana
STEPS : Lie flat on your back, Legs should be separated. Keep your arms at your side and your palms facing up. Just relax. Close your eyes and breathe deeply and slowly through the nostrils. Start concentrating from your head to your feet. Don’t move ahead without relaxing particular part of the body. On each inhaling and exhaling (breathing) think that your body is totally relaxed. Let your tension, stress, depression and worry run away on each exhaling. You can practice this asana for about 3–5 minutes.
Benefits of Banana - Savasana
- Strengthens the spine and rib cage in a lateral flexion.
- Stretches the oblique stomach muscles and intercostal muscles between the ribs.
- helps in clearing toxins and reducing bloating.
- The Banana pose stretches the lung meridian, opens the shoulders and chest, and relieves tension in the spine.
- Mobilizes the spine in lateral flexion.
- Stretches posterior border of the shoulder including the LATS, teres minor and major (triceps if the elongated arm is bent at the elbow joint).
- Stretches the internal and external obliques, internal and external intercostals, and places a midl pull on the psoas and QL.