Mermaid Pose: Benefits & Build-Up Poses

Mermaid pose is a beautifully challenging and rewarding hip and heart-opening asana. It’s an advanced posture that requires a lot of openness through the chest, shoulders, quadriceps and hip flexors. It’s a pose that can be practiced as a progression to build up to King Pigeon (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana). There are many foundational asanas that can be sequenced to prepare for mermaid pose and make this photogenic pose much more attainable.

What are the benefits of Mermaid Pose?

Practicing mermaid pose can build confidence to progress into many other advanced asanas. It also targets two areas that commonly store tension; the hips and the shoulders. The placement of the hips in mermaid pose provides an opportunity to stretch the entire pelvic area as well as the quads and hip flexors. The arm position in mermaid pose creates a lifting and lengthening of the shoulders and can increase spinal mobility.

How can you build up to Mermaid Pose?

To build up to mermaid pose you’ll want to practice asanas that target the chest and hips. Starting with more gentle backbends and hip openers will allow you to progress in a way that avoids injury or strain. The following poses work to prepare the body for mermaid pose.

• Low Lunge (Anjaneyasana) Variation with Gomukhasana Arms
• Low Lunge (Anjaneyasana) with Quad Stretch
• Extended Revolved …

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