Pose Breakdown: Bow Pose

Briohny Smyth in Bow Pose
 

The archer-inspired Bow Pose will leave you feeling strong in the body and open in the heart. It’s the perfect remedy to a day of sitting hunched over at your desk as it deeply stretches your back muscles. Classified as an intermediate yoga pose, it does require some flexibility as well as control to slowly release it. If you need to modify Bow Pose, you can use yoga straps around your ankles to bring your legs and arms closer together.

Learn how to do Bow Pose (Dhanurasana) with our step-by-step video tutorial from Briohny Smyth. You’ll learn the proper alignment and technique to help you safely move into Bow Pose.

HERE ARE SOME HEALTH BENEFITS OF Bow Pose

 

  • Stretches your front body and hip flexors

  • Builds strength in your back muscles

  • Opens your chest and shoulders

  • Massages the digestive organs

  • Improves posture

  • Promotes deep, restorative breathing

 

How to do Bow Pose

Briohny on her belly

1.

Come down to your belly on your mat and extend your legs behind you.

Briohny with her hands along her side

2.

Bring your forehead down with your hands next to your hips.

Briohny grabbing her ankles

3.

Bend your knees and reach back with your hands to grab the outsides of your ankles.

Briohny squeezing her thighs together

4.

Squeeze your inner thighs together.

Briohny lifting her shoulders up

5.

Press your shins back to lift your shoulders up.

Briohny finishing the pose

6.

Allowing your arms to straighten, use the power of your legs to press back even more and now lift your knees off the ground, opening your shoulders and gazing forward.

 

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