Happy Baby Pose

Happy Baby Pose or Ananda Balasana is an excellent grounding pose wherein ‘Ananda’ means ‘Happy’ and ‘Bala’ means a ‘Baby’. Interestingly, it is also called the Dead Bug Pose, because of the position that the body takes up while performing this pose. This yoga pose is considered as one of the restorative poses which can be done for better sleep and full body relaxation.
Happy Baby Pose is considered a base pose as happy baby pose variations can be derived from this pose.Happy Baby Pose is considered a warm-up yoga pose to prepare the body for more intense yoga poses / yoga flows.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Pose Detail
- Body Position: Abdominal Up
- Difficulty: Beginners
- Joint Mobility Direction: Lateral Stretch
- Poses According To Their Functions: Physical Training
- Poses for Your Legs Flexibility: Poses for Your Hips Flexibility
- Poses By Benefit: Yoga Poses for Back Pain, Yoga Poses for Calmness, Yoga Poses for Fatigue, Yoga Poses for Stress
Benefits and Contraindications
Gently stretches the inner groins and the back spine
Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and fatigue
Pregnancy
Knee injury
Neck injury, support head on a thickly folded blanket
Photo poses in different angles

Tips
If you can’t reach your feet, try using a belt or scarf looped around each arch of the foot.
You can also take hold of your ankles or shins.
- Happy Baby Pose Block Strap At Chest
- Happy Baby Pose Aerial
- Frog Lifting Through Pose
- Half Happy Baby Pose Variation I Bolster Sacrum
- Happy Baby Pose Bolster Under Sacrum
- Half Happy Baby Pose Variation I
- Half Happy Baby Pose Wall
- Happy Baby Pose With Bolster
- Half Happy Baby Pose
- Wind Release Pose
- Supine Spinal Twist Pose II
- Bridge Pose
- Corpse Pose
- Supine Spinal Twist Pose II
- Wind Release Pose