Hero's Yoga Pose

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Heroes pose, one of the most beneficial poses in yoga helps just about everything from alleviating spider veins and fatigue in your legs to helping circulation throughout your body, and there is a laundry list of benefits that comes with this pose. So, to come into this pose at home you’ll want to come onto your knees and first bring your heels together and sit back into a pose called thunderbolt pose. Thunderbolt pose essentially, sitting on your heels with the heels drawn together. For some of us this is pretty easy and for some of we need a little help because the front of the legs feels overstretched. So as we move into heroes pose, if you’re comfortable here for a few breaths to warm up the legs, then you come up, take the feet wider than your hips because you’re going to sit down in between your feet, and then you’ll take a block if you’ll need it, I’m just going to show you how to set this up with the block so you can stretch as so. Now, if you’re using the block or if you’re doing this all the way down to the floor you want to make sure that your toes are facing directly behind you and that the feet are not winging out to the sides, very important for the knees. And if you’re a little more comfortable here you can do this either with jut a rolled up towel or blanket to support you or without anything to set in-between your heels. This is heroes pose and heroes pose has several stages just like almost all intermediate or advanced poses. And you can keep coming back down through these stages step by step as your legs feel ready to do this stretch. One thing that’s very important to monitor with heroes pose is the comfort level in your knees. In yoga, when we talk about that being knees comfortable, basically meaning no pain, no discomfort, no feeling of active stretch across the knee cap of any kind. And you can stay in this pose for up to fifteen minutes if you’re comfortable here. And then to come up, coming back through those stages, so coming up to those elbows, coming up to the hands and then coming up to sitting.

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