Sarvangasana

Sarva means whole, entire; anga means 'limb' of 'body'. This is also called shoulder stand or called candle pose.

Procedure:
1. Lie on your back in Shavasana.
2. Raise your legs towards your face slowly while putting pressure on your hands.
3. Start inhaling, bring your legs to a 45 degree angle and stay a while and then being them at 90 degree to the body.
4. Inhale and raise your waist also supproting the back with hands high up just under the shoulder and rising the body till it is straight and perpendicular to chin, which is pressed tightly in to the sternum.
5. When your breath is flowing freely take a long, slow but effortless exhalation. In case of difficulty in the beginning to attain this posture, you may bend the knees and fold the legs against the thigh before lifting them.
6. Feel the beginning and end of each inhalation and exhalation allowing your awareness to be taken by the effortless rhythm of your breathing without losing awareness of dynamic of the bandhas invigorating your whole body, until you are ready to release.

Benefits:
1. In this exercise the heart gets a rest.
2. Lungs and all organs about the region of the neck are flushed and cleansed by a fresh flow of blood.
3. Thyroid, Tonsils, ear glands, hilum, thymus and the lungs receive fresh nourishment.