Wheel Pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana) is a popular pose but also quite difficult for beginners. In this article, we will explore how to do the Wheel of Yoga pose and the amazing health benefits it offers.
Benefits of the Wheel Yoga Pose
Wheel pose is a yoga pose that has many great benefits that many of you love:
- This pose helps open the shoulder joints, back spine, hip joints.
- Help increase flexibility for the entire rear body.
- Stretch and squeeze the chest, abdominal, and thigh muscles, making the front body more flexible.
- Strengthens arms, shoulder joints, back muscles, as well as helps increase circulation, better blood circulation.
How to practice Wheel Pose correctly
- Step 1: To do this pose, bend your knees and open your knees with your shoulders.
- Step 2: Then, bend your elbows and put your hands on your ears. (Note, please turn your wrist back to be able to do the next steps).
- Step 3: Next, push your hips up, using your hands to support the top of your head. And the last step is to push all the people up.
Common mistakes when performing Wheel Pose
Keep your feet too close to your hips
- A common mistake is that you prop your feet too close to your hips, making you unable to push yourself up. Keep your legs and hips apart to make it easier for you to do the movement.
I can't push myself up and my back hurts
- In addition, if you feel back pain and can't push up, you can lift your heels, it will help reduce the load on the lower back and hip joints, making it easier for you to perform the movement.
Support joints and spine are not strong and flexible enough
- And finally, some of you will find it difficult to push up because the wrist joints, shoulder joints and back spine are not flexible enough.
- Do exercises that open the shoulders, wrists and spine to make it easier to do, avoid back pain and injury.
- You can refer to more videos of shoulder and inner back exercises Nguyen Yoga's channel.
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