Technique
Stand straight. Lift your left foot. Hold the toe of your left foot with your right hand and keep the left hand on your waist. Stretch the left leg so that it comes to your waist level (making 90o angle with right leg). Both the legs and the trunk are to be kept straight. Balance as long as you can conveniently.
Then repeat the pose, holding right leg with left hand.
Benefits
- Gives strength to the legs.
- Solves spinal problems and tones up the nerves.
- Exercises arms.
- Beneficial for the proper functioning of the intestines.
- Helpful in observance of celibacy (Brahmacharya).