Downward Facing Dog also known as Adho Mukha Svanasana is a classic! Almost any physical Yoga class will involve a variation of this pose, in fact it is often repeated over and over again. Keep reading and you will see why we love this amazing pose.

Benefits of Downward Facing Dog

• Relieves stress, depression and calms the brain.
• Energises the body, Mr Iyengar recommends at least 1minute in the pose to bring back lost energy to runner in a race.
• Stretches and strengthens the body evenly, so its great to counter pose to rebalance the body -after more challenging or one sided poses.
• Improves digestion, relieves headache, insomnia, backache, fatigue and menstrual discomfort.
• Can help prevent osteoporosis and therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet and sciatica.

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Downward facing dogs are like bananas, you can never have enough, they are satisfying, filling and each one tastes slightly different and are so good for you. Plus there are so many variations and things you can do with it Banana Split, Banana Fritters, Banana smoothy and more yum yum.. So make sure wherever or whatever you are doing, throw in a down dog or two to keep yourself feeling great! 

Do you spend hours working at a computer, iPad or phone? Have you ever experienced wrist or hand pain or strain? Our poor hands, wrist and fingers work so hard. Sometimes its important to give them some love, attention and Yoga too! 

From the moment we are born we begin to grasp with our hands and figure out all the most intricate tasks that we can perform. The hands are truly amazing!  When you look at children's hands you will see how flexible they are. They can bend their fingers all the way back but as we get older this flexibility may reduce. Keeping our bodies open and flexible throughout our lives can help us balance the forward moving and technology crazed society we live in. 
 
So this week we have a simple and short video that you can follow along with to refresh your poor typing and texting fingers. Here is our mini Hand Workout, all in less than 2 minutes! 

• Open and close the hands. 
• Finger circles.
• Wrist wiggle.
• Wrist stretch back.
• Wrist stretch front.
• Open and close the hands. 
• Shake it off. 
• Namaste

Until Next time.. Have a beautiful week.