Downward Facing Dog Yoga Pose

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This yoga pose is also known as Downward Dog and Down Dog Poses.

Type of pose: standing, mild inversion, resting.

Benefits: this yoga pose helps you stretch and strengthen all your body. One more advantage is that it helps relieve pain in the back

Downward facing dog pose is done a lot of times during most yoga classes. It is a transitional pose, a resting pose and plays the role of a great strengthener in its own right. Usually it is the first yoga pose people face when starting yoga practice. Downward dog is wide-spread. So, even those who have never done yoga might have heard of it.

Dolphin Yoga Pose

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This yoga pose is also known as Puppy Pose.

Type of Yoga Pose:
standing, mild inversion.

Benefits:
this yoga pose is a variant of downward facing dog pose. The pose is especially useful for people who have got pain in their wrists.