Fighting myositis, Samantha Ruth Prabhu turns to yoga in Bali

Samantha shared a video of herself doing the Downward Dog pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana) with an Aerial Yoga twist on her Instagram stories. Tagging her friend, Anusha Swamy, she captioned the post, “Day 2” with a white heart emoji. Check it out below.

Tagging her friend, Anusha Swamy, she captioned the post, “Day 2” with a white heart emoji. (Photo: Samantha Ruth Prabhu/Instagram)

According to Jiggayasa Gupta, nutrition and fitness coach, FITTR, the Downward Dog pose has several benefits. “It improves flexibility and strengthens muscles throughout the body, especially shoulders, legs, ankles, and core muscles. It also enhances concentration and focus and increases blood flow that energises and calms the body. Additionally, the post opens up sinuses and allows the flow of mucous if there is any nasal congestion. It also improves posture by opening the anterior chest wall and shoulders that are often stiff due to excessive desk work.”

Steps

*Begin in the tabletop pose (Bharmanasana) on all fours.
*Place your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees under your hips. Look at your knees: you shouldn’t be able to see your feet as they should be directly behind your knees.
*Spread your palms, pressing through the outer edges of the palm and the fingertips. Keep your upper arms and shoulders rotated outwards while your forearms rotate in to protect over flexing of the elbows.
*On exhalation, lift your knees away from the floor.
*Beginners can keep the knees slightly bent to lengthen the spine and the heels lifted away from the floor.
*Push your hamstrings and place your heels onto or down toward the floor. If possible, straighten the legs while maintaining the length of the spine.
*Keep lengthening your spine and shoulder blades keeping space across the top of the shoulders.
*Inhale and exhale in this pose for about 5-10 breaths and slowly keep your knees down to sit back in Child pose.

However, Gupta noted that people with high blood pressure should avoid practicing this pose. Moreover, individuals with carpal tunnel syndrome, detached eye retina or weak eye capillaries, dislocated shoulder or shoulder injury, or diarrhoea should only perform the post under proper guidance from a professional.

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