Balasana (Childs Pose) Restorative Yoga

Video Transcript

"A supportive child's pose or Balasana is a really great way to relieve the tension in the spine and quiet your mind. So, I'm going to ask Gina to demonstrate this for me. We're going to use the round ballster, and she is just going to straddle this ballster. And she's actually going to sit on the ballster. Good. And then she's just going to lower herself down. Good. Now for any reason, this is not high enough for you, you can put another ballster, right there on top so you want to be totally comfortable. The thing about restorative poses is you need to be very comfortable. We want you to be comfortable and quiet your mind. So we don't want you to be feeling like your back hurts or anything. So this should be relieving the tension in her back. And so if she has someone here to help her, she can give a little back massage. But if you're at home by yourself, then you could use your sandbag and just place it right here on the lower sacrum, how's that Gina? To put a little weight on the spine, and this is going to lengthen her spine out, she's going to make sure she's relieving the stress to your shoulders so you're not pulling your shoulders up to your ears. And then she's just going to lay right this way, and count her breath and just relax, allow her eyes to close. And she can stay this way for about three to five minutes and then she flips her head over to the other side, so her opposite ear is down and she relaxes there for three to five minutes, restoring her spine, taking the weight off of her spine and this also helps with digestion and elimination as well, helping the digestive track. And just feels really great going back to child's pose."