2Balasana (child`s pose)

Bala is the sanskrit term for child.
Description:
Balasana possesses a deep physical and psychological memory of our time as infants. The shape of the position is useful for many reasons, but particular, it forces you to confront your attitudes and patterns of breathing, the health of your organs, and your level of awareness in moving from the abdomen. It is a very simple pose which many yoga instructors start beginner with, it begins with physically, yet it requires patience and the ability to surrender to gravity and a state of nondoing.
Verbal signs:
1. Start by kneeling on your hands and knees.
2. Release your toes on the floor and seperate your knees about hip width apart.
3.Exhale and lay your torso between your thighs and broaden your sacrum across the back of your pelvis and narrow your hip points towards the navel.
4. Lay your hands on the floor alongside your torso, palms up, and release the fronts of your shoulders toward the floor.
5. While in the resting pose, a beginner must attempt to stay between 30 to 1 minute and gradually grow towards 1 to 5 minute.
Benefits:
•             Gently stretches your lower back, hips, thighs, knees, and ankles
•             Relaxes your spine, shoulders, and neck
•             Increases blood circulation to your head
•             Massages your internal organs
•             Calms the mind
•             Helps relieve stress and fatigue

Caution

Please do not attempt the following position if you have any of the symptoms listed below
•             Diarrhea
•             Pregnancy
•             Knee Injury
•             High Blood Pressure
•             Eye or ear infection
•             Ankle Problems