Cat Pose | Marjaryasana

CAT POSE INSTRUCTIONS

1. Start on your hands and knees with your knees under the hips and your hands under the shoulders.
2. Exhale and round your spine toward the ceiling.
3. Inhale as you come back to a neutral position and repeat 10 to 20 times.

MINDFULNESS PRACTICE

As you round your back, exhale and maintain your hands and knees in the same position. Release your head toward the floor and feel the stretch in your spine and neck.

MARJARYASANA BENEFITS

The cat pose stretches the neck and spine, helps to relieve stress and tension and massages the abdominal organs.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Back and neck injury.

PREPARATORY, COMPLEMENTARY AND FOLLOW-UP POSES

Start with child’s pose and then move to cat pose. As you inhale go into cow pose, to reinvigorate the spine and stimulate the abdominal organs.

RELATED YOGA POSES

Try these other yoga poses to relax and relieve stress and tension:
Cow pose
Legs up the wall pose
Corpse pose
Downward dog pose

YOGA ESSENTIAL FLOWS