Prarivrtta Ardha Chandrasana

by Julie Wilcox

Basic Overview: This pose is heating, detoxifying, and focuses on the 1st-3rd chakras, especially Manipura. It helps to create strength, flexibility, fire, and clarity while it works the hip adductors, obliques, spinal extensors and rotators. It also lengthens the hamstrings, hip abductors, latissimus dorsi, and respiratory diaphragm.

From an Energetic/Ayurvedic Perspective: Decreases Vata (distractedness, restlessness); Increases Pitta (focus); Increases Kapha (calmness)

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