{"id":3511,"date":"2021-06-21T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.yogaclassplan.com\/?post_type=yoga-pose&#038;p=3511"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:29:24","slug":"locust-pose-shalabhasana","status":"publish","type":"yoga-pose","link":"https:\/\/www.yogaclassplan.com\/yoga-pose\/locust-pose-shalabhasana\/","title":{"rendered":"Locust Pose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main benefits of the locust are to build strength and flexibility in the back. Different traditions have differing ideas of what physically constitutes the \u2018locust posture\u2019, shalabhasana. In the \u2018Heart of Yoga\u2019, Desikracher identifies five variations of shalabhasana- each of which will change the effect and the function of the asana in different ways. There are also a number of different options as to the breathing whilst entering, leaving and staying in the pose and these themselves are also all able to effect the function and the effect of the asana. Before discussing the benefits and contraindications of this asana it is important to identify with version of the posture is going to be taught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main benefits of the locust are to build strength and flexibility in the back. Different traditions have differing ideas of what physically constitutes the \u2018locust posture\u2019, shalabhasana. In the \u2018Heart of Yoga\u2019, Desikracher identifies five variations of shalabhasana- each of which will change the effect and the function of the asana in different ways. 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