Sentence examples for shoulder stand from inspiring English sources

Someone with osteoporosis, for example, may want to avoid headstands and poses requiring extreme spinal flexion or extension, while someone with glaucoma may want to avoid taking the head below the heart in poses like headstand, handstand, shoulder stand and standing forward bends.

This may be because the jugular veins and carotid arteries are somewhat compressed in shoulder stand.

As we go past the audience, I'm in a shoulder stand.

I was in Tokyo recently and I pulled a muscle after doing a shoulder stand in my hotel room.

We then tried shoulder stand, and found that the intraocular pressures went up all right, but only half as much.

Cole ticked off the dangers of doing an unmodified shoulder stand: muscle strains, overstretched ligaments and cervical-disk injuries.

CHRISTOPHER BEACH, President, Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States According to the article, B. K. S. Iyengar "insisted" that students perform shoulder stands in a way that forced their necks into extreme flexion, citing as evidence some of Iyengar's shoulder-stand instructions that were published in his 1965 book, "Light on Yoga".

Directly behind his left shoulder stood Newton, the superstar familiar with awkward situations.

The sentry puts his rifle to his shoulder, stands staring up into the gloom.

He's gone from walking steps to shoulder stands and lean, confident poses.

He chased the referee, swung him round by the shoulder, stood head to head and threatened to butt the official.