Standing Half Frog Pose - Ardha Bhekasana
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Standing Half Frog Pose, or Ardha Bhekasana, is a great preparatory standing yoga pose. This pose helps the practitioners to warm up, increase flexibility and build strength in the legs while also improving balance and focus. It stretches and opens up your hips while empowering you to go beyond your perceived limits. Regular practice can improve posture by strengthening your upper body, abdominal muscles. Additionally, it can help to stimulate the abdominal organs and reduce blood pressure.
Pose Detail
- By Type: Balancing Yoga Poses, Flexibility Yoga Poses
- Difficulty: Beginners
- Body Position: Standing Yoga Poses
Step-by-Step Instructions
Benefits and Contraindications
stretches and opens the hips
strengthens the upper body
abdominal muscles
deep hip flexors
and knee joints
stimulates the internal organs and can reduce blood pressure
increases balance and focus
any shoulder injuries
pregnancy any knee
hip, or back issues
high blood pressure
heart conditions
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Standing Half Frog Pose Anatomy
- Quadriceps: The rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and vastus medialis muscles are stretched in this pose.
- Hips: The hip flexors (psoas and iliacus muscles) and the hip rotator muscles (piriformis, obturator externus and internus, and quadratus femoris) are involved in this pose.
