YOGA ASANA: Supine Yoga Poses, Lying Face Upward

NATARAJ ASANA

The meaning of the word 'Nataraj' is 'The Lord of Dancing'. Lord Shiva is believed to be the Nataraj. In fact, the Natarajanasan is believed to be of the difficult type of Yoga Postures. Yoga is one of the most useful and widely practised exercises. It has been originated in India.

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Natarajanasan

Yoga or doing of the yoga postures, the yoga asanas, is famous for its spiritual touch. These postures provide extreme stretches to the human body. Yoga is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy, but now a day it is practised all over the world. Some use it as exercises to remain healthy and fit, and the rest for spiritual reasons.

Benefits by doing Standing Yoga Poses :

It is necessary to know that the standing position provides us with knowledge about the principles of having a proper alignment of our body. Here are some of the Yoga Asanas, the postures, which can be termed as Yoga Postures in Standing Positions. These postures would affect different systems of the human body: muscular, respiratory, circulation, digestive, excretory, reproductive, endocrine, nervous system. These asanas are to be performed after keeping our body in standing position: legs together (fully stretched), spine erect and both hands resting on our sides.

Standing Alignment in Yoga:

Asana is a Sanskrit word. It means to keep our body in a particular posture. Many yogis have devised these whole set of asanas, the postures. One of the great Yogis was Patanjali who had devised many postures, which were easy and comfortable. His teaching is known as Ashtanga Yoga, too.

Most of the postures are devised to enable us to have better physical health and a peaceful mind. These yoga postures have a deep impact on our whole body, and mind and soul. The yoga postures help to keep us in a particular physical position.

ONE FOOT POSTURE

Theme: Narrating the Easy Yoga Postures. Yogasana made easy.

It is needless to say that Yoga helps in promoting positive thoughts and good health. In a society as general, a person who practices Yoga would maintain good relationships and communication between people.

The regular practice of Yoga Postures helps to keep us fit. Here it is tried to show some easy postures. It is because some people who are either new to yoga or suffering from some disease may find some of the postures very difficult. Here it is tried to show and narrate the postures which are comparatively easy.

One would not find it very difficult to do the One Foot Pose as shown here. You can try it once and would learn how to do it frequently. This posture has all the benefits of yoga in general. But specifically, it helps to strengthen leg muscles and the back muscles.

If you are a new entrant in this yoga exercises, you should not remain in one posture for more time. Avoid being in one posture for a longer period, as it would make your limbs paining a little bit. Ensure that you get proper and enough rest between two sessions of exercises, too. You can rest in Shavasana, as it would give you more energy to go to the next session of doing yoga postures.

Trikonasana, Triangle Pose

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Easy Yoga Postures: Trikonasana, Triangle Pose Mountain yoga 8, triangle

The word 'Trikona' means triangle. As our body looks like a triangle in this yoga posture, this asana is called Trikonasana, the triangle pose. It is an important posture in the Hatha Yoga system of yoga exercises. This pose is usually done twice, in sequence. Once it is done by facing the left and another facing right.

Triangle pose provides adequate exercise to several muscles of our body. The leg and hand muscle gets more strain, while the back muscle is also stretched. It is very popular among women.

How to do Triangle Pose

It is one of the simplest yoga poses. First of all stand in Tadasana that is a straight standing position.

Bend your upper body forward and put you paws one metre away from your feet. Here you would be in a posture that is known as Downward Facing Dog.

Drag your left foot forward and put it just touching your left paw from behind. Now keep the left paw parallel to the left foot and try to put more weight of the body on the left foot and the left hand.

Raise the right hand and twist your torso, so as it goes straight upward.

Twist your face and try looking ceiling. Right paw should be facing rightward.

Here your body would make a triangle, the stretched right hand being the top angle of the triangle. Ensure that your torso should be parallel to a yoga mat.

You can remain for 20 seconds to one minute in this posture. If you feel any unusual pain in any limb, you should come back into normal posture. Yoga system tells us to give stretch to the muscles, and not pain to any muscle or limb.

Benefits of doing Triangle Pose, Trikonasana

This pose helps in decreasing tension from our lower back.

If we do this pose regularly, it would help to strengthen abdominal muscles, improving our digestion function. It also reduces the extra fat deposited on the belly and thus helps in reducing obesity.

Upper legs get much exercise, as they remain stretched during this pose.

Hamstring and hips are actively involved while we do this pose. The twists and turns provide good exercise for them.

This yoga posture generates a sense of balance within our body.

Women are advised to practice this pose during pregnancy. But they should get prior instruction from the doctor about how to be careful while doing this posture. During the advanced stage of pregnancy, a woman should do this pose only in presence of a trained yoga teacher. This asana can be done in the manner shown above right also. Trikonasana - Triangle Pose

Wearing Yoga Clothes

While doing these postures you need feeling comfortable. So the importance of clothes increases. Yoga clothes are the outfits absorbing your sweat easily, as yoga exercise is bound to make you sweat heavily.

Yoga has been the companion of those who has preferred spiritual practice. Regular practice of yoga and meditation would positively affect our consciousness and inner-being.

But it has physical advantages or rendering health benefits, too, as it is necessary in modern times. Some of the yoga practitioners see yoga as a health solution provider. They want yoga as a method of exercise. There resulted in a system called Power Yoga.

What is Power Yoga

The practitioner is not a yogi here. He or she uses the yoga postures of Ashtang Yoga system for extensive exercise. Keeping the pace of doing postures a little bit faster than usual, they concentrate on infusing strength and flexibility into the body of practitioners.

Integrating the breathing, creating tension and letting our body relaxing by various movement, this system of yoga makes itself suitable for catering to the needs of our body.

How Power Yoga Works

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These institutions which modify some of the postures or yoga or their speed to match the needs of their clients. But the basics remain the same. They concentrate on the movements between poses while doing postures and let the doer regulate the pace of breathing in a specific manner.

It is different from the usual form of yoga as it would almost test the level of endurance of the doer while he or she is performing the difficult process or situation. It is because the doer is required to hold a difficult pose for a longer period.

Benefits of Doing Power Yoga

It is in no way different from ordinary yoga postures. All the benefits of doing regular yoga would be availed by this system, too. In addition to this, the practitioner would get a good work-out after doing the poses of power yoga.

The physical strength of the doer is at test in this system. So he or she would feel physically fit after doing it for a certain period. It challenges the endurance level of our body; so after completion of a long session of power yoga, we may feel more focused and invigorated.

The latent energy of our body would be recharged and we might feel rejuvenated. Excessive sweating would remove toxins from the body.

Yoga is a healing therapy, too. But many practitioners would take it as a tool for keeping themselves healthy and physically fit. They may not be facing any health problem, but they approach the yoga for remaining as healthy as they are. Power yoga is one of the solutions for such a class of yoga lovers.

Power Yoga Classes

There are many classes providing guidance about yoga in general and power yoga in particular. the working or every class may differ slightly or substantially from each other. But their main objective is to provide the fitness-based services to the participants. They model their teaching or coaching on the yoga postures of Ashtang yoga.

They would instruct the participants to act in keeping individual needs and health in focus.

It is better to practice power yoga postures in open ground or on the terrace, a lot of seating would occur.

The sweat-absorbing clothes would be better for wearing while doing postures, as it would involve much breathing and result in more seating.