Asana of the week - Child's Pose (Balasana)

(bah-LAHS-anna) bala = child

The Child's Pose stretches your lower back and arms and relaxes your entire body.


Step-by-step Instructions:

• Kneel on the floor, touch your big toes together and sit on your heels. Exhale and lay your torso down onto your thighs. 
• Broaden your scrum across the back of your pelvis and narrow your hip points toward your navel, so that they nestle down onto the inner thighs.
• Lay your arms and hands flat on the mat stretched out above the head or alongside your torso, palms up, and release the fronts of you shoulders toward the floor - feel the weight of the front shoulders pull the shoulder blades wide across your back.

Balasana is a resting pose. Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes.