Instructions
Lie on your back with your arms alongside your body, palms down. Lift your legs and hips with an inhale, then support your low back with your hands.
Walk your hands down your back and bring your elbows close together. Reach your feet toward the sky. Relax your toes.
Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths into your belly.
Lower your feet behind your head, place your palms flat on the floor, tuck your chin into your chest and with an exhale slowly roll down one vertebra at a time.
Always follow shoulderstand with its counterposes, Plow and Fish.
Alignment Cues:
Push ribs in and up
Soften tongue and throat
Press upper arms and shoulders into floor
Keep legs together
Do not turn head