For sinuses, inversions can really help to get things loosened up and moving. These poses will intensify the pressure in your head, but when you right yourself, you should feel some relief shortly after.
- Kneel on the floor. Touch your big toes together and sit on your heels, then separate your knees about as wide as your hips.
- Exhale and lay your torso down between your thighs. Broaden your sacrum across the back of your pelvis and narrow your hip points toward the navel. Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of the pelvis while you lift the base of your skull away from the back of your neck.
- Lay your hands on the floor alongside your torso, palms up, and release the fronts of your shoulders toward the floor. Feel how the weight of the front shoulders pulls the shoulder blades wide across your back.
- Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes. To come up, first lengthen the front torso, and then with an inhalation lift from the tailbone as it presses down and into the pelvis.
Benefits: Releases tension in back, shoulders, chest. Recommended for dizziness or fatigue. Helps alleviate stress and anxiety. Flexes internal organs and keeps them supple. Lengthens and stretches spine. Relieves neck and lower back pain. Gently stretches hips, thighs, ankles. Normalizes circulation. Calms mind and body. Encourages strong, steady breathing.