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Gomukasana
cow face pose
- Opens chest, hips & shoulders
- Stretches the ankles, thighs & triceps
- Improves attitude
Contraindications
- Shoulder injuries
GETTING INTO THE POSE
- From dandasana cross the left leg over the right so that the knees are stacked on top of each other, bring the feet in until the form a straight line parallel with the front of your mat. If this is too difficult you can hug the feet closer to the body.
- Make sure both sitting bones push into the mat, straighten the back and bring the crown up to the ceiling.
- Bring the left hand between the shoulder blades, the back of the hand makes contact with the back.
- Inhale: Raise the right hand and reach up to make length in the sidebody.
- Exhale: bend the right elbow and grab hold of your other hand. If you can't reach it, you can use a belt.
- The right elbow reaches straight up, the left elbow down.
- Keep the back straight.
- Shoulders away from ears.
- Gaze forward.
BREATH
- Inhale: make length between the left and right elbow & the crown and the sitting bones.
- Or -
- Breathe towards the lower abdomen to make space in the hips and relax the pelvic floor muscles.
GETTING OUT OF THE POSE
- Exhale: Release the hands, straighten the knees and return to dandasana and repeat on the other side.
PREPARATORY POSES
- Dandasana | staff pose
- Baddha konasana | bound angle pose
- Supta baddha konasana | reclined bound angle pose
SUBSEQUENT POSES
- Garudasana | Eagle pose
REPLACEMENT POSES
- Use a strap when you can't bind the hands
- Sit on top of a block to releave the hips
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