Legs on a Chair Yoga Position for Menopausal Women

Video Transcript

"You are going to bring the chair beside to you and grab a blanket, fold your blanket over a couple of times and place it at the base of the chair. Go ahead and sit onto the blanket and swing your leg to ground and bring your calves onto the back of the chair and just slowly come down to your shoulders. Lift your chest up, keep your shoulder placed in towards one another and drop them back down to the floor. Bring your hands out so the palms are facing the ceiling and the fingers are relaxed. I encourage you to stay here for 5 or 10 minutes, breathing softly from your belly, if you like you can even bring your hands onto your belly so you can feel that you are breathing here, your belly is soft, the breath is smooth, take comfort relax. After a few minutes in this pose you should feel that the body is becoming relaxed and that the mind is becoming peaceful, whenever we elevate our hips and our legs, it actually has a calming effect on our nervous system. The blood in our legs and our hips pool down to our upper extremities and there are receptors in our neck that regulate our blood pressure levels. When the blood pools into our upper body it centers the centers in our neck send message to our brain that the blood pressure is high and the brain sends a message throughout the body to lower blood pressure levels, to lower the pulse rate and you are ready to come out of the pose, just bring your knees in towards your chest roll over to the side and disperse your hands into the floor."