Camel Pose

How to do it

1. EnterKneel with your knees hip-width apart, palms on your sacrum, fingers pointing down. Inhale, lift your chest up and gently bend back. For the full version, lower your palms to your heels.
2. HoldYour thighs stay vertical, hips over your knees. The backbend grows from your upper back, and your neck continues the line of your spine. Breathe wide into your chest.
3. ExitTuck your chin, support your lower back with your hands, and inhale to rise up smoothly. Rest in Child's Pose.

Benefits

Opens the chest and the front of the body, brings a surge of energy.

Modifications & variations

One-Legged Camel Pose Advanced

Counterpose

Child's Pose Beginner

Where it appears

• Classic Full Practice 50 min · Intermediate
• Energy Boost 15 min · Intermediate
• Shoulders & Posture 20 min · Intermediate
• Backbends & Opening 20 min · Intermediate
• Deep Backbend 35 min · Advanced · voice-guided in the app subscription
• Warm-up: Morning Boost Upright, squat, and backbend — an energizing wake-up with no weight on the hands
• Warm-up: Heart Opener Two backbends with different mechanics — Camel Pose from the knees and Upward-Facing Dog from the floor — with active counterposes: a stretch and a forward fold

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