08/17/2026
Pose of the month! Locust Pose (Salabhasana)
How to:
🧘🏻♀️ Lie on your stomach with arms down by your sides, palms facing the floor. Extend your legs straight back with the tops of your feet pressed into the mat.
🧘🏻♀️ Let your forehead rest naturally on the mat. Roll your shoulder blades down and back to open your chest.
🧘🏻♀️ Inhale and lift your head, chest, and arms up from the ground. With arms extended straight back, stretch through all ten fingers, and slightly turn your hands so that the thumbs point down.
Exhale and lift your legs off the mat, leading with the inner thighs. With the buttocks slightly firm, drop the tailbone toward the ground.
🧘🏻♀️ If lifting your arms and legs at the same time is too challenging, drop the legs back down to the floor and lift the upper body only. This is called the half locust pose.
🧘🏻♀️ Focus your gaze on the floor and slightly in front of you to keep the back of your neck from crunching. Hold the locust pose for three to five breaths and then release out of the pose. In traditional yoga, yogis repeat these back extensions for three.
Counterposes:
Child's Pose (Balasana)
Knees-to-Chest Pose (Apanasana)
Cat-Cow stretches
Benefits:
Stretches and strengthens the core, chest, and back muscles
Tones the arms, glutes, hamstrings, and calves
Improves posture
Improves breathing
Boosts energy
Stimulates abdominal organs
📸 .llc
