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Supported Child’s Pose to Cure or Reverse Fibromyalgia

October 23, 2009 by Lisa

Supported child’s pose is a yoga posture that has great healing and restorative benefits for many illnesses, especially fibromyalgia. I was introduced to this pose in year 3 of my recovery. I was watching a yoga dvd and the third or fourth pose was this one. I got into it, and it felt so good that I stayed in it for 40 minutes while the yoga tape played on to completion.

There was a point in my recovery from fibro where I got up an hour early so I could stay in this pose for an hour. I would set an alarm in case I fell back asleep. I would also stay in this pose for about 40 minutes in the evening. I did this for 6 months or so and it was a time of very accelerated healing for me.

I highly recommend this pose to anyone with any illness and especially fibromyalgia. I credit it with helping me learn to truly relax my body and with draining many stress chemicals. I still do this pose occasionally if I have had a really full day or if my body is feeling drained.

I think the pose is most beneficial if you stay in it for at least 10 minutes at a time. I also recommend you clear your mind, dismiss any thoughts that come up, and breathe deeply. I like to run the phrase ‘breathe into all four corners of your ribs’ through my mind to help me remember to breathe fully.

This is a wonderful stress buster, and if you start doing it in the evening before bed for 10 minutes or more, you may find that you gradually start to sleep deeper and easier. It puts you in relax and unwind mode.

Here’s how you do the pose in a wonderful video. If for some reason the video won’t play, go here. the first couple seconds may be an ad.

Advanced version of supported Child’s Pose: I like to do an advanced version of this pose to stretch my groin and inner thighs and knees and abdomen. I would not advice anyone try this until they have done child’s pose for many months and are feeling good, and even then, go very slow.

What you do, is get into supported child’s pose like normal, then very slowly, move your ankles apart. You’ll feel the stretch. I try to play around with it but I can only stay with a very moderate stretch for a few minutes.