Shoulderstand Tutorial - Salamba Sarvangasana. Iyengar Yoga for Beginners.

Shoulderstand Tutorial - Salamba Sarvangasana. Iyengar Yoga for Beginners.
We recommend that before tackling this pose, you practice the five poses in "Prep for Shoulderstand". See our playlist: bit.ly/2vTkRZO. In this Shoulderstand series, Lin and Leo show you how to work in order to develop the strength and alignment in the body to give you the tools to ensure that you are ready to stand on your shoulders. We recommend that you have a regular, balanced yoga practice, (See our Beginners Series for suitable Iyengar yoga sequences: bit.ly/2uzSCjb) before moving onto Shoulderstand. Please be aware that Shoulderstand needs to be mastered before you move on to working on Head Balance, (Sirsasana).

Struggling to lift in Halasana, Plough (Plow) pose? Check out another video on the Yoga with Lin and Leo channel, a tutorial which shows Beginners to yoga how to roll safely and comfortably into Halasana, Plough pose (Plow pose) using props. youtube.com/watch?v=ojJdwFQdw8A

Salamba Sarvangasana is a good pose for those who are looking for Beginners Yoga, who have already mastered the basic standing poses and Halasana (Plough Pose). It is an important inverted asana (upside down poses). It should come after your standing poses in your yoga sequence and can be done after Adho Mukha Svanasana (Dog Head Down Pose), and Halasana (Plough/Plow Pose) and before your seated poses. In order to protect your neck, make sure that you have suitable yoga props to do both Halasana and Salamba Sarvangasana. If you have them, the standard support is five yoga pads and a yoga mat and a sturdy chair. If you do not have yoga equipment, you can replace the yoga pads with 3 neatly folded blankets or large towels for the platform for your shoulders. If you have problems rolling into this pose, which can happen through a lack of confidence or if you are overweight, in the Halasana Tutorial we show the use of a higher support as a launch pad. Inversions (Upside down poses), shouldn't be done when ladies are menstruating.

In the five poses in our "Prep for Shoulder Stand" series, Lin and Leo show you how to work in order to develop the lift and opening in the body, ready for a shoulder balance.
Shoulderstand (Salamba Sarvangasana) has many benefits. It strengthens the muscles in the spine, legs and abdomen, it helps to regulate blood pressure, as well as having many positive effects on the immune, digestive, hormonal and nervous systems.

We recommend that you do all 5 of Prep for Shoulderstand poses separately to learn the actions, and then do our Prep for Shoulderstand Collection; a silent practice where we join these preparatory poses together, before trying this pose. You should not attempt Sirsasana (Head Balance, Headstand) unless you are comfortably holding this pose, Shoulder Balance (Salamba Sarvangasana), for at least 8 minutes.

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