Ashtavakrasana: A Hand Balancing Pose That Works and Opens the Pelvic Structure and Mildly Rotates the Spine

Here is a photo of a pose where you are working the muscles of the pelvic structure while opening them at the same time. You are also rotating your spine while balancing on your hands. As with all the poses the key is that there should be an element of effortlessness while performing the pose. You are working fairly strongly but you are not overworking and it should look like you are not working hard at all.

Postures To Reduce Stress in the Pelvic Structure and Spine to Help Relieve Back Pain

These photos show a few angles on opening from the pelvic structure into the spine. This kind of work would reduce tension in those areas and could help relieve certain kinds of back pain if done in a away that is right for the person practicing. How far you go is not the important part of the posture. What is important is that the poses are releasing stress, rather than being done in an aggressive manner that could create more stress. What you would be looking for in the poses is to feel opening and a release of tension in the inner thighs, the back of the legs, the pelvic structure and the entire back of the torso (lower back, mid back, upper back and even the back of the neck). It is also interesting how effective the bent kneed variations are at helping reduce stress in the pelvic structure and spine.