Pose of the day: seated forward bend

Time to learn a new pose. This one is called "seated forward bend".
This pose is about stretching and relaxing at the end of the workout. Benefits include:

• Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression
• Soothes headache and anxiety and reduces fatigue
• Therapeutic for high blood pressure, infertility, insomnia, and sinusitis

Of course, no one's first time will look as on the picture above. Here's how it happens:

With each inhalation, lift and lengthen the front torso just slightly; with each exhalation release a little more fully into the forward bend. In this way the torso oscillates and lengthens almost imperceptibly with the breath. Eventually you may be able to stretch the arms out beyond the feet on the floor.

Stay in this pose from 1 to 3 minutes.
Credit: YogaJournal