Most of us, even the healthiest, spend the majority of our lives sitting at a desk, behind the wheel of a car, or in some other seated forward facing position.  We narrow our focus to the small screen directly in front of us, literally or figuratively, then we stand up with the weight of the world on our shoulders.  In turn, we begin to round our front body around the space of our heart, creating a distancing from our inner world of feelings and emotions.  Our necks sit slightly forward of our spine, our shoulders are chronically tight and often slightly rounded, our back body is overworked and strained, and our hips and legs are tight, and our ease of connection and communication with our innermost Self is muted. Often this stance of defense is not a conscious one, but one that we take as a result of our day-to-day lives.  The silver lining around this cloud, though, is that we have a counter pose to this stress and separation that is a result of our daily lifestyle, Supta Virasana (Supine Hero Pose).