Sit back on your knees, with hips resting on your heels. Inhale. Exhaling, lean forward to place crown on the floor. Simultaneously place hands on either side of head. Continue breathing.
Raise your back and hips so that the crown is firmly placed on the ground. Ensure chin locks into the spot between your collar bones. Hold the pose for as long as is comfortable. Return to starting pose with an inhalation. Repeat a few times if a beginner. Later, with continued practice you may hold the pose longer.
Benefits:
This pose helps control hunger, due to pressure on certain key acu points. The neck lock it creates hikes metabolism by the pressure it applies on the thyroid gland.
Also, respiration becomes more efficient, hiking energy levels. It is used as therapy in anger management, hunger control, obesity and respiratory problems.
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