Upward Salute Pose Instructions
1. Stand up tall with your feet together, your spine long, and your arms by your sides.
2. Rotate your arms so that the palms face away from the torso.
3. Inhale and bring your arms up and overhead.
4. Stay in Urdhva Hastasana for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Mindfulness Practice
As you inhale, lift your arms, expand the chest, look up, and maintain your neck and head relaxed. Bring your palms together, lengthen the spine and stretch your shoulders and belly. Exhale as you release the stretch and bring your arms back down.
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Urdhva Hastasana Benefits
The upward salute pose stretches the front of your body and your shoulders, relaxes the mind, and improves digestion.
Contraindications
Back, shoulder, or neck injury.
Preparatory, Complementary and Follow-Up Poses
Start with mountain pose and then progress to upward salute pose. Follow-up with standing forward bend.
Related Yoga Poses
Try these other yoga poses to relax and relieve stress and tension:
Standing half forward bend pose
Standing forward bend pose
Child’s pose
Mountain pose
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