For the lay person or yogi, pigeon pose elongates the back, opens the hips, groin, hamstrings, and relieves pressure on the lower back and sciatica. Your hips are a keystone to your body and its proper functioning. Open hips improve your posture, alignment and overall flexibility.
Benefits:
- Stimulate the internal organs.
- Stretch deep glutes.
- Stretch groins and psoas (a long muscle on the side of your vertebral column and pelvis)
- Relieve impinged piriformis and alleviate sciatic pain.
- Help with urinary disorders.
- Helps with urinary disorder
- Stimulates the internal organs
- Increases hip flexibility
- Improves posture, alignment, and overall suppleness
- Lessens or alleviates sciatic pain
- Diminishes lower back pain and stiffness
Safety and Precautions
Avoid this pose if you have any knee injury or hip problem. 7 You should not feel any stress on the knee. You will feel rotation of your femur in the hip socket and a great stretch along the front of the hip, but it should not be painful.