03/23/2026
🧘 Pose of the Week 🧘
Supta Matsyendrasana | Supine Twist 🌀
Supta = Reclining | Matsyendra = Lord of the Fishes | Asana = Pose
Named after the great yoga sage Matsyendranath, Supine Twist is the body's built-in reset button. Lying on your back, one knee draws across the body as you open into a gentle, delicious spiral. It's the pose your spine has been asking for all day. 🙏
✨ Benefits:
• Releases tension in the spine, hips, and lower back
• Stimulates and detoxifies the digestive organs
• Stretches the chest, shoulders, and outer hip
• Calms the nervous system and relieves stress
• Helps neutralize the spine after deeper backbends or forward folds
📍 Alignment Tips:
• Keep both shoulders grounded — let the twist come from the spine, not the shoulders
• Stack the knees if twisting with both legs, or let the top knee rest on a block for support
• Extend the opposite arm long and let the gaze follow — or keep it neutral if the neck is sensitive
• Never force the knee to the floor — gravity will do the work in its own time
• Breathe INTO the twist — each exhale invites a little more release 🌬️
🌀 Eight Limbs Connection:
Supta Matsyendrasana beautifully embodies Saucha — the first Niyama and second limb of yoga, meaning purity or cleanliness. Just as we wring out a wet cloth, this twist wrings out stagnant energy, tension, and toxins from the body. It's a physical act of purification — clearing space so that something fresh and new can flow in. ✨
🔗 Come twist it out with us. Link in bio!
