Doing yoga is an unbelievable strategy to calm your thoughts, physique, and spirit. Its listing of advantages runs a mile lengthy, and consists of weight reduction, higher sleep, improved reminiscence, elevated flexibility and energy, and even decreased signs of tension and stress.
There’s lots to like concerning the follow of yoga, however let’s face it: Some yoga poses can get fairly funky, to say the least. You already know those we’re speaking about.
Poses that embody backbends in ways in which no again ought to ever bend. Poses the place sure physique elements are positioned means too near different physique elements. And poses that just about contain not having a rib cage.
For the sake of an excellent chortle, we’ve determined to compile among the craziest, weirdest, most weird yoga poses we may discover. Namaste.
1. Ear Strain Pose (Karnapidasana)
At first look, ear stress pose, or knee-to-ear pose, form of seems to be like pet pose till you understand it’s a must to be the wrong way up. In contrast to a few of these different poses, ear stress pose doesn’t must be mixed with anything to look completely insane.
2. Yogic Sleep Pose (Yoganidrasana)
When airways say you possibly can take one carry-on, they don’t imply it’s a must to develop into the carry-on. We all know that is referred to as the yogic sleep pose or yoganidrasana, however how is she trying so peaceable when her LEG is behind her HEAD? So confused. A lot impressed.
3. Ft to Head Pose (Sirsa Padasana)
Formally, this one’s a variation of sirsa padasana, or toes to go pose, however we’re unofficially calling it “I’m lacking a couple of vertebra.” However hey, that is undoubtedly one strategy to stretch out after consuming an excessive amount of!
4. One-Armed Facet Crow (Parsva Bakasana)
Facet crow as a base with some form of loopy prime leg contortion, this pose requires some subsequent stage glute/hamstring/hip flexor energy and suppleness, plus the added talent to defy the bodily legal guidelines of the human physique.
5. Scorpion Pose (Vrschikasana)
Why accept doing scorpion pose in your forearms when you are able to do it in your HANDS? Also called our go-to Saturday evening pose after we’re ready for our meals to be delivered. It’s chill.
(Disclaimer: The remainder of these poses don’t have official names, however right here’s what we expect they need to be named.)
6. Breakdancer Pose
This loopy riff on a headstand makes us query every little thing about how the human physique strikes. We don’t actually know what’s occurring right here, however we do know we’d die attempting it.
7. Lizard Bench Pose
It is a variation on the lizard pose, if stated lizard was attempting to develop into a bench. That might look nice in my lounge!
8. Happiest Child Pose
Him: Flexibility is attractive.
Me:
However severely, props to this woman for smiling by means of this ridiculousness. Additionally, the place’s her torso?
9. Human Pretzel Pose
Half lotus pose variation, half yoga knot, half madness. Is there actually ever a necessity for all of your physique elements to be that shut to one another?
10. Bow and Arrow Pose
Two phrases: ouch and ouch. This pose seems to be prefer it took years to grasp, and the blessing of a yoga god to rearrange how your hips work. His physique says, “I can do something,” however his face says, “Why am I like this?”
