Yoga backbends
5 postures to deepen your backbends safely and comfortably. By Monica Arellano
Deepening your backbends isn’t about learning more complex postures, but an opportunity to better understand your own spine and mobility. Rarely do we bring our spines into extension throughout a normal day…however, it’s vital in creating balance and strength throughout the spinal column. Expanding your backbend practice is a great way to open the chest, and improve your posture. Here are five postures and drills to either warm up the body before a backbending practice or to establish patterns in the body that will be useful in any backbend posture, like Urdhva Dhanursasna or Ustrasana.
Sphinx
Sphinx
This is a good posture to feel into the anterior pelvic tilt in backbends. It gets you feeling into the low back, and sacrum and releasing any unnecessary tension.