Corpse Pose | Savasana

CORPSE POSE INSTRUCTIONS

1. Lie down on your back, cover your body with a blanket and extend your arms and legs, letting them drop open.
2. Close your eyes, allow your feet to rotate to the sides and keep your palms facing up.
3. Stay in Savasana for 5 to 15 minutes.

MINDFULNESS PRACTICE

Look for any tension or tightness in your body and consciously release all pressure and allow your body to melt into the floor. Focus on your breathing as you surrender your body to gravity.

SAVASANA BENEFITS

Savasana is considered the most important pose in yoga. This pose allows your body and mind to fully relax and receive all the benefits from the previous poses and breathing exercises. It relieves stress, anxiety and depression, increases productivity and energy levels, and reduces insomnia, headaches and fatigue.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Pregnancy and back problems.

PREPARATORY, COMPLEMENTARY AND FOLLOW-UP POSES

Savasana is usually the last pose at the end of your yoga practice but it can also be used at the beginning, to calm the body, and in the middle, to rest and refocus.

RELATED YOGA POSES

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

YOGA ESSENTIAL FLOWS