tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33780337397539616182024-03-14T08:31:33.823+05:30YOGA ASANALEARN HOW TO DO YOGA POSTURES. YOGA LESSONS, YOGA FOOD, MEDITATIONNAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-25867703519243128522021-01-27T20:26:00.021+05:302022-10-13T21:58:06.666+05:30Tantra Yoga : Exercise in Increasing Vital Energy, Vegetarian Food<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Great_Buddha_Statue%2C_Bodh_Gaya.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Great_Buddha_Statue%2C_Bodh_Gaya.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Buddha_Statue,_Bodh_Gaya.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Andrew Moore from Johannesburg,<br />South Africa</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0" style="text-align: right;">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span style="text-align: right;">,<br /><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;">via Wikimedia Commons<br /></span></span></span></b></span></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The seeker of Tantra Yoga believes</span></span></span></span></b></div></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that the universe is the projecting of</span></span></span></span></b></div></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">divine energy. And the whole universe</span></span></span></span></b></div></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is a stock of cosmic power; and that</span></span></span></span></b></div></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: right;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">cosmic energy is within every one of us</span></span></span></span></b></div></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-size: large;"></b><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">What is Tantra
</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Definition of Tantra is given in many scriptures and books of
yoga, in various ways and in different words? In simple words, Tantra is a
technique that could generate psychic power in our body. Tantra teaches us
certain techniques and principles which enable us to experience the
unfathomable potential of the human mind and psychic power. This power
enables us to experience the ultimate bliss. It also guides how man and
woman could experience the universe that is beyond ourselves. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To feel this cosmic energy,
we are required to activate it from its dormant position. Tantra coupled with
yoga poses tries to join the limited energy of humans with the unlimited cosmic
energy of the universe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Kundalini and Chakra
</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The seeker
of Tantra takes the help of the concept of Kundalini which is known as the
dormant power embedded into the human body in the form of a female serpent. The
Kundalini travels through seven Chakras. These Chakras are clusters of glands
located in our body parallel to the spinal cord. They are named Muladhara,
Swadhistan, Manipur, Anahat, Visudha, Anja and the last one is Sahastrar. As
the Kundalini rises with our yogic efforts, the Chakras get activated one by
one.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Mantra </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Another device used by the Tantric practitioner is the chanting of Mantras.
These are the verses to chant while doing any religious acts or performing
yoga. Tantra seekers would also chant specific verses. The above-mentioned
chakras are envisioned as lotus having fifty outgoing petals. Each of these
petals represents our desires, instincts and longings for worldly things. The
words and humming of chanting create effects on each of these petals. This
helps in awakening the power of Kundalini. And once the energy awakens and
reaches a particular chakra, the petals are pierced and consciously become clear and clearer. The energy flows from downward to upward, starting from the
genitals to the head.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Buddhism and Tantra </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Buddhism also recognizes the
existence of hidden energy in our body. Buddha himself professed the
importance of joining our body with cosmic energy. The mandalas s devised by
Buddhism try to depict the correlation between our individual energy and cosmic
energy. Both the Vedic scriptures and Buddhism believes that Tantra is the
union of three forces: the physical energy of the human body, the cosmic energy
and the ultimate power the Divine energy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 27px;"></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Padmasana_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="650" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Padmasana_.jpg" width="183" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padmasana_.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">UmaPrykhodko</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">, <br /></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 4.0</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">, via <br />Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tantra Yoga </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">It is believed that the corporeal
act has three distinct purposes. To procreate for keeping the human race alive,
to feel pleasure while doing the act, and to get liberation. Tantra Yoga deals
with the third object, the liberation of the soul by taking the help of
physical acts done together by a man and a woman in their intimate moments. By
practising Tantra Yoga one tries to re-integrate with what is beyond our form,
the body. Our awakened mind and upward-going energy of ours would lead us to
the universal energy, the life that is larger than ours. This is done by
practising yoga postures, meditation and Tantric practices.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tantra is a science. The science
of the human body and the human mind. The Tantric practices enable the human
body to experience the unexperienced, within ourselves.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">For yoga, body and body's desire have never been taboo. Instead, there
are techniques devised by yoga masters, which help us to get our body keeping
healthy and making stronger. Overall health certainly would raise
the body's power and resultantly the strength to enjoy the act satisfying bodily
desire also increases.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">It has been believed by yoga masters that the health of the human body also
can be improved by practising yoga. Tantra Yoga is the branch of Yoga that
deals with the interrelationship between Yoga and Tantra. In our life what
we lack is experiencing powerful body energy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Happening of such an intense Tantric experience would stimulate certain glands
and increase the vital power of the body. Tantra Yoga Helps in doing so. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Theme: Yoga Asanas and Food. Eat Vegetarian Food for Health<o:p></o:p></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Fruitlegumes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Fruitlegumes.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fruitlegumes.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Scott Bauer, USDA ARS</a><span style="color: #000066; text-align: left;">, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Public domain,</span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: x-small;">via Wikimedia Commons</span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yoga and Diet:</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> Yoga
systems do not advise you to starve yourself on the 'bellow the poverty line diet',
which is sometimes termed as Hollywood Diet, too. Our food is very much
important in shaping the quality of our thoughts. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The yoga system strongly believes
and advocates that our mental development and spiritual uplift are linked with
the food we consume. So there are theories in the Yoga system and Ayurved, the
ancient system of healing, narrating how the purity of the diet helps us
become peaceful and spiritually aware. There are three types of food.
One is food that makes us unhealthy; the second is food that gives us
nourishment and health. The superfood is the fruit that gives us mental peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When you are
practising Yoga Asanas, you have decided to have all the benefits available by
doing so. Therefore the diet should be devised in such a way that it augments
the benefits of yoga practices. The composition of the diet should be balanced and
the quality vegetarian, as yoga denies any kind of violence. The food that
arrived through the process of killing another soul on the earth could not help
our wellness, that is what yoga believes.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Here is some information
about <b>vegetarian food</b> that would help to make our body and
mind balanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vegetables of all kinds (except onion and garlic) and sweet fruits are
essential.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grain like
wheat, rice and oats must be used, especially not in very much powdered
form.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cereals
and all types of milk products; and the natural sugar taken in form of
Honey and sweet fruit would be better.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It would
be advisable not to consume non-vegetarian food like meat and seafood.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lesser
intake of fried and intensely boiled food should be avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If it is
possible take only the natural substances in your diet and avoid unnatural like processed food and artificial colours.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: GU; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are
general guidelines; you can devise your plate according to your choice and availability.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Respiracion.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="137" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Respiracion.jpg" width="183" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Respiracion.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">MyA</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yoga Retreats in India
</span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yoga retreats are the centres where you will find residential facilities
with yoga training. In India, you would find various types and
sizes of yoga retreats catering to your needs and desires. Mostly these
retreats concentrate their attention on the matters of teaching yoga postures,
pranayama, and meditation. Living comfortably is also a part of yoga theory. So
in such retreats, you would find the living comfortable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">India is the founder of the yoga system. From the days of the ancient
universities of Nalanda and Taxila (Taxshila), the knowledge about yoga and
meditation is imparted here with authenticating spiritual dedication. It is
said that silence is the language of God. In a well-managed yoga centre, you
would be able to hear that language, sitting in an atmosphere of peace and
quietness enabling you to submerge into yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">In modern-day India, too, the teaching of yoga is continued with the same
dedication with which it was done in the ancient time of Aryan saints and
medieval yoga gurus. Many of the retreats emphasize the lifestyle of the ashram
during the sessions of yoga teaching. The persons working in such institutes or
facilities are mostly well-trained in the field of yoga poses and meditation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>How Retreats Help Learning Yoga </b>Yoga is known
as the journey of knowing the self; it is like a trip to discover the person
living within ourselves. For travelling inside of us, we need an exclusive
corner of peace and tranquillity. The yoga retreats situated either on the
hills of the Himalayas or on the tranquil beaches of India would
provide you with the space you need. You would find a nice place around
Hrishikesh in north India or Goa near Bombay. The retreats
situated in Kerala offer a peaceful stay at palm grove beaches. These places
open up the possibilities of experiencing real peace we can have by doing yoga
and meditation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">What They Provide in Yoga
Retreats </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Depending upon the situation and the place of the retreat and the tariffs
they charge, the facilities offered to the yoga parishioners could be
varied. In most of the retreats, especially near Haridwar and Hrishikesh,
the charges would be very economical. Most of the places provide the facilities
of food and beverages at cost prices. They charge some fees for the services of
a trained yoga teacher.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Other Facilities in Yoga
Retreats </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">various places are catering to the different needs of the person. It
includes the services of providing Ayurvedic spas and massages. Those who want
special huts near the seashore or under a palm tree will be required to pay
extra for the same. These resorts provide all types of yoga accessories like yoga mats and yoga balls. You would find a good gym, too, in some of the resorts.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></span></span></span></div></span>
NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-80532579544730503052021-01-23T19:59:00.020+05:302021-02-12T00:21:18.066+05:30How to Do Wheel Pose, Chakrasana<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supta_chakrasana.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Supta chakrasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Supta_chakrasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 237px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a>The word ‘Chakra’ means wheel. While doing this posture our body would look like a wheel, so it is called ‘Wheel Pose’, too. This is one of the poses of the yoga system known as Hatha Yoga. This helps in balancing the relationship between our mind and body. The posture given here is known as Supta Chakrasana, too.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Both men and women can do this posture. Women should avoid doing this pose during pregnancy. If a pregnant woman gets advice to practice certain yoga posture as an exercise, she should do it in the presence of a trained teacher only.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cy-OAwcjXzc" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: navy; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How to Do Wheel Pose, Chakrasana</span></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Arrange your yoga mat properly and lye on your back. Bend your knees in a manner that both the feel remains flat on the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The distance between two feet should be as wide as your hip. </span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Press the feet firmly on the floor and inhale slowly. Then try to lift the hip portion upward. While doing so you would lift your thighs and buttocks on the upside direction. </span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now use the hands. Put the palms firmly on the floor keeping fingers facing your head. In order to lift your shoulder, just try to straighten your arms slowly but steadily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the shoulders, your head also would be above the floor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the legs and arms are fully stretched upward, the Wheel Pose is complete. </span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here you can hold yourself in Chakrasana until you feel pain. You can inhale and exhale, but try to keep breath inside for more time. It would give you the strength to hold the posture for long. </span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While coming back from this posture, do it slowly. Get you head down by bending elbow and then let the shoulders touch the floor. Thereafter let the body rest in a flat position or in corpse pose. It would help in decreasing fatigue.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></li></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><b>Benefits of Doing Wheel Pose</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"><b> </b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;">The Chakrasana, the wheel pose is one of the poses defined in <a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2010/09/hatha-yoga-postures-with-meditation-and.html"><b>Hatha Yoga</b></a> system. Due to its posturing of our body, we can name it as <a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2010/04/yoga-postures-back-bend-poses.html"><b>Beck-Bend Pose</b></a>. It would help in making our breathing system balanced. If we breathe following the natural rhythm, we would achieve many benefits or we can avoid much physical illness. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;">The physical side of the benefits of such backbend postures is multi-faced. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy; line-height: 150%;">Those who are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy; line-height: 24px;">suffering</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 150%;"> from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2010/08/yoga-postures-remedy-for-sciatica-pain.html"><b>Sciatica</b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2010/08/yoga-postures-remedy-for-sciatica-pain.html"><b> Pain</b></a>, they can arrive benefit by doing wheel pose. But care must be taken if more pain is felt; in this case, do this asana in the presence of a trained yoga instructor. A person feeling back pain would find it relieving a little bit. In the beginning, this posture should be done in the presence of a trained teacher.</span></span><span style="color: navy; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 150%;">You can join a good yoga class where advanced yoga is practised and taught.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If this posture is done with wearing proper yoga outfit, it would make you feel more comfortable. A good yoga suit and a long yoga mat are advisable. While relaxing, you can use a soft yoga cushion. [First Image courtesy By Marcocarvalho </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">[<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supta_chakrasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a> , Second Image courtesy By http://theholisticcare.com [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null">null</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chakra_Asana-Wheel_Pose.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a>]</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p></p></span><p></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-2949430002251005642011-12-31T23:55:00.014+05:302021-03-18T00:03:56.284+05:30YOGA POSTURES<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_vajrasana.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja vajrasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Raja_vajrasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 227px; margin: 0px 10px 2px 0px; width: 130px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;">Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do Yoga Postures.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">WHAT IS YOGA </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;">The word Yoga means 'to unite'. It is an ancient practice through which an individual tries to get oneself united with the whole universe, by meditation and other techniques of yoga. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;">In modern days yoga is prescribed as medication and psychotherapy treatments. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="line-height: 21px;">Researchers have found yoga helps to reduce stress, regulating blood pressure and increasing the sharpness of mind. However, y</span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">oga is not only the set of rules narrating how the human body can remain healthy and live happily longer. It instructs how to practice what has been told in the yoga theories. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">The 5000-year-old ancient knowledge of Yoga systems can be practised as a </span>curative therapy<span style="line-height: 21px;">. It helps in healing several </span>adamant diseases<span style="line-height: 21px;">, which make our life miserable. We can practice yoga poses at home, with basic instructions from a trained yoga teacher. It could be helpful if we can go to a yoga school or a </span>yoga retreat<span style="line-height: 21px;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">WHY YOGA IS NECESSARY</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our changed lifestyle and the uses of various machines in our day to day activities have made us doing less physical work. So our body becomes imbalanced in a way by the passing of an age. Yoga makes the required correction. Regular practising of Yoga would help us reduce the fat deposits and keep us fit. If we want to see the benefits which we can get from practising the Yoga and Yoga Asanas, we can summarise that in a nutshell as follows.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Types of yoga poses</b> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;">In fact, yoga poses are a comprehensive set of body and mind exercises. The poses or asanas we do can be classified as per the twists they give to our body. The postures which require our body to bend in backside are termed as </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"> <b> </b><b>Back-bends</b> and likewise, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Forward-Bend</b> poses. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;">In many poses, our body is put in to reverse of the natural order. These poses are called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;">Inverted Poses and wherein the face remains upward are named as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"> Face up Postures postures. there are many simple postures which keep our boy either in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;">Sitting Position or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Standing Position</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Hatha Yoga: Postures With Meditation and Pranayam</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja sarvangasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 280px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; width: 120px;" /></a></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Yoga is traditional wisdom originated in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But it has nothing to do with any religion or faith. Practising yoga, coupled with meditation, is an age-old system of human efforts to feel the oneness of body and the soul.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Dhanur-asana, Bow Pose </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">is one of the Hatha Yoga Poses that helps to keep the flexibility of the spine in order. It also helps in reducing the back pain, both lower and upper. If practised regularly, this Bow Pose would make our</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> neck tension free and the thig muscles get extensively stretched.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Camel Pose, Ustrasana</b></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;">The posture known as</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"> C</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">amel Pose is one of the difficult poses, and has several benefits. If done regularly, it helps in diseases of certain muscles and back pain. You would not find it much difficult after one or two weeks. The yoga posture of the Bow Pose is similar to this pose. But that is done by positioning our body differently. Here the step by step instructions is given.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>BALANCING HATHA YOGA POSES</b></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>WHAT IS HATHA YOGA</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">While Hatha yoga combines physical postures, it upholds the importance of moral attitudes, too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>It is a holistic approach to reducing mental stress and increases the overall well-being of the human body and mind. In short, it tries making our body a temple for living the sacred soul. Awakening of Kundalini and making each of its chakras activated is part of hatha yoga.<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The objective of Hatha Yoga is to maintain a fine balance between the body and the mind. This task is done by giving specific postures known as Yoga Asana or Yoga poses. This system of yoga is believed to be devised in </span></span></span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">India</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> before the fifteenth century. The other yoga systems known as Ashtanga yoga, Kundalini yoga and power yoga are based on the basic concepts of Hatha Yoga. All the systems of yoga have one line agenda: they try to pacify the mind by keeping the flow of physical energy regularized state. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Followings are some of the yoga poses devised under Hatha Yoga system.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>INVERTED HATHA YOGA POSES</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Plough Pose</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> is an important posture in the system of Hatha Yoga. It is one of the three poses, which are recommended to activate the ‘Manipur Chakra’ of Kundalini. Regular practice of this would result in the general health of body and mind.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Raja Sarvangasana </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span">(Shoulder Stand</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">: This is the much-practised posture of Hatha Yoga. As it helps to create an increased flow of blood into the brain, it is much useful for increasing the power of remembering, too. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">For the beginners, this pose might be a little bit difficult. But you would like to do it, as you can do other difficult posture like</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">' </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Halasana, the Plow Posture</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">'</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">from the shoulder Stand pose. The beginners should not remain for more time in this pose, as it may cause neck problem for them.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>BACK-BEND HATHA YOGA POSES</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Peacock Pose, Mayurasana</span></b></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">: As this is one of the difficult types of asanas, we should have prior knowledge about another easy asana. We can sit in </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Vajrasana</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> and after getting comfortable with doing the difficult poses, we can start doing </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Mayurasana</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">. For the beginners, it is advisable not to remain for more time in this pose. Whenever you feel pain, just stop and relax for a while.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Scorpion pose </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">involves the strength of almost all the muscles of your body; thus if you practice it regularly you would find yourself more energetic. This posture is called the Ardha-Vrischikasana, meaning Half Scorpion pose. In the beginning, the practitioner of this pose would face some difficulty in doing this asana. But it would not take more than a week to know it completely.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If one practices these poses regularly, he or she would feel less stressed and full of energy during the day. In addition to toning the internal organs of our body, these postures help in curing the ailments like hypertension and arthritis. It could help in keeping diabetes in control, too. However, the proportion of the benefit arrived might be different from individual to individual depending upon the age and general health of the person.</span></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BENEFITS OF YOGA POSTURES</span></span></b></p><ul><li><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Regular doing of Yoga Poses keeps our life-energy flowing.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">is a healing system of theory and practice.</span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Practising yoga Asanas would help to maintain the energy meridians of our body open and in natural conditions.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yoga poses are curative in certain pains like <b>back pain</b> and pain in <b>hip joints</b>. Regular practice of yoga helps to <b>lose weight</b>.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yoga is very much helpful in keeping our nervous system operating naturally and peacefully. The regular practising of Yoga Asana would render our body and mind fairly in a balanced state.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Many</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"> Asanas and breathing techniques are devised to help the flow of blood in our body and curing the weakness of the heart. In addition to helping the functioning of our heart, Yoga postures increase metabolism and gift us with more energy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga system, theories and practice, can help us in c</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">uring or healing what has gone wrong in our body due to faulty style of living. </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga is a healing system </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">of health care that is based on a concept of the "whole" person as one. It is based on a scientific concept that the human body, mind, spirit, and emotions can remain in balance by regular practice of Yoga.</span></span></span></span></span></li></span></span></span></span></ul><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"></span></span></span></span></span><li><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px;"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span">[ </span></span></span></span><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_vajrasana.jpg" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Raj Vajrasana</a> By Marcocarvalho [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_vajrasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px;"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"> , Siddhasan By Marcocarvalho (Own work) [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://www.blogger.com/'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siddhasana_mulher.jpg'">via Wikimedia Commons</a>] </span></span></span></span></span><span>[Image courtesy By Marcocarvalho [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a><span>],</span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_sarvangasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a><span>]</span></span></li></ul></div>
NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-55471882608207524452011-05-16T11:39:00.002+05:302021-02-12T00:21:36.860+05:30Bakasana: The Crane Yoga Pose, Fish Pose - Matyasana<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Bakasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="800" height="229" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Bakasana.jpg" width="301" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bakasana.jpg" style="background-color: #d5f1f4; color: #25aed0; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">Trev M</a><span style="background-color: #d5f1f4; color: #525252; text-align: start;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="background-color: #d5f1f4; color: #25aed0; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="background-color: #d5f1f4; color: #525252; text-align: start;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Baka is a Sanskrit word, meaning the crane. While doing the Bakasana, or Vakasana, our body looks like a crane. So it is named <b>Crane Yoga Pose</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>How to Do Bakasana</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This yoga posture is an easy one. We can do it in three steps.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step One <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Come in sitting position keeping the soles on the yoga mat. Ensure that there is enough distance between two knees. Now put both the palms on and set the knees so as they come at the level of your elbows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step Two</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the second step, you are to bend your torso forward for lifting both the legs upward balancing the whole body on the palms only. While remaining so in this position, keep looking in the front side. Here the Bakasan is complete, and you will look like the figure in the image.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Third Step</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 27px;">To return in the original position first, place the soles on the yoga mat or on the ground. Here the posture is complete.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Benefits of Doing Bakasan The Crane Posture</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="apple-style-span">1. It provides a good stretch to the arms and the nearby muscles.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span><span>2. The area of chest becomes strong due to stretching of the muscles.</span><span><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 27px;">Precautions</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Care should be taken to keep the neck forward while doing the posture. Those who suffer from the lumbar spondylitis or any other problem in neck or back should do this in presence of a trained yoga teacher. The beginners should not remain for more time in this position. While you are in Bakasana, your body is in balance. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b style="line-height: 27px;"></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The entire weight of the body comes on just two palms. So you should be careful in balancing your body. After a good practice, it would be easy for you to do the Crane Posture without difficulties. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The yoga poses which are done by keeping your back on the floor or near the floor are called supine poses or the poses are done by ‘lying face upward’. Such poses manly provide exercises to the leg and hand muscles. In some of the poses, the abdominal muscles and spine are also twisted and get much strain. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: right;">Fish Pose, Matsyasana</b></span></span></span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Fish_pose.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="624" height="302" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Fish_pose.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_pose.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Drchirag patel</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While doing any of the above poses, you are to keep one important point in mind: do not overstretch your body. Know the limit of your body and remain within that limit. If you find doing any of the poses difficult, do consult the trained yoga teacher. If you use proper yoga accessories, you would make the yoga experience joyful and helping.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Do try Doing These Supine Yoga Poses</b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-dvipada-pitham.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bridge Pose</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">: </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When we do this pose, the pelvic muscles are stretched to its greatest length. This pose provides adequate exercise to many muscles like the pelvic, abdominal and leg muscles. The spinal cord would be bent slightly while doing Bridge Pose or the </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Dwipada Pitham</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-halasana-plaugh-posture.html">Plough Pose:</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose helps us stretching the muscles of our waist. So it improves the functioning of our veins. Moreover, it helps to give adequate exercise to other parts of the body, too. While doing </span><b><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-halasana-plaugh-posture.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">Halasana</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span">, our spine is stretched in full. It keeps the spine very elastic. If we do this pose regularly, the overall function of the spine is improved greatly.</span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><span class="apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6600cc;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-pavanamukta-asana-wind.html">Pavanmuktasana</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-pavanamukta-asana-wind.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">Wind Releasing Pose</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If we do this posture regularly after waking up from the sleep in the morning, it would help in regulating the movement of the gases present in the body. It would be much beneficial if you do this pose in the early morning. An important point to be noted is that this pose is to be done before taking any food or drink.</span></span></li></ul></div></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Urdhva Dhanurasana</span><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Reverse Bow Pose</span><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> This posture provide greater stretches to the back muscles. It helps keeping back flexible and the spinal cord smoothly. Its regular practice provides help in that respect. The leg and shoulder muscles are strengthened to its fullest length.</span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 19px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6600cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-salamba-sarvangasana.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shoulder Stand Pose:</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is also called </span><i><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-salamba-sarvangasana.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Sarvangasana</span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span">. It</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"> benefits our body and mind in several ways. Doing this asana only the face remains upward. The whole body is placed on the strength of the shoulders only. It increases the flow of blood to our brain, and thus it would help in increasing the memory power. </span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoga-postures-how-to-do-corpse-pose.html">Corpse Pose</a></b>: Known as <a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoga-postures-how-to-do-corpse-pose.html">Shavasana</a> or <a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoga-postures-how-to-do-corpse-pose.html">Relaxation Pose</a>, this posture is done before and after doing a posture. It follows the meaning of its name and provides adequate relief to all the limbs of our body. If it is done before going to sleep, this pose helps in getting immediate and deep sleep.</span></span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While doing the above poses your face would be upward. It would put your neck downside. If you feel any pain in your neck, you should use a Yoga Bolster or Yoga Cushion below your neck. It would make you feel comfortable. You can buy a good quality bolster or the cushion from a departmental store that sells yoga accessories like a yoga mat.</span></div></span></span></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-66191232686962068012010-08-22T17:48:00.017+05:302021-02-12T00:21:48.609+05:30Yoga Postures: Remedy For Sciatica Pain, The Sciatica Yoga<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><b>W</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><b>HAT IS SCIATICA</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;">: Sciatica is caused due to compression of the nerves or the spinal cord. There is a total of five nerves attached to the spinal cord. If any of these nerves is slightly compressed at its root attached with the spinal cord for any reason or is irritated, we feel acute pain. Those who suffer from sciatica would know how painful it is. We would feel unbearable pain in the areas of buttocks, legs and lower parts of the back. Pregnant women should do these poses after consulting their trained Yoga Teacher.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: #000066; text-align: right;">Maha Bhjangasana</b><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Bhujangasana_zamkovoi.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Bhujangasana_zamkovoi.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhujangasana_zamkovoi.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Sezam777</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 4.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Y<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">OGA REMEDY FOR SCIATICA</span>: </span></b><span style="color: #000066;">In addition to other remedies, doctors advise their patients suffering from sciatica to undergo certain stretching exercises. It helps in improving the elasticity of muscles. In the system of yoga, too, remedy for the pain caused by sciatica is devised. Doing yoga posture for such pain is an age-old tradition, but the modern technique of ailments also confirm positive aspects of doing yoga exercises. Yoga poses help in decreasing the pain and get control over the movement of the damaged muscle. Here are some yoga postures, which are generally suggested for the persons who suffer from sciatica pain. However, a patient should take proper advice from his or her physician; and the following yoga postures should be done only in the presence of a trained yoga teacher.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-salamba-sarvangasana.html" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></a><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja sarvangasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 280px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 120px;" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">Sarvangasana</span></span></span></b></span><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This posture is also called the Shoulder Stand Pose. This pose can be done after some practice of doing yoga only. T</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">he beginners should avoid remaining for more than ten seconds in this pose. It may cause minor pain in the neck.</span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-salamba-sarvangasana.html">Shoulder Stand Pose </a></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shoulder Stand Pose is the posture that is classified as "Inverted Poses". This posture is devised under the system of yoga named Hath Yoga. This would give adequate stretch to the waist and make blood being circulated in every vein from top to bottom. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">Those who suffer from sciatica should know that their pain would not be reduced immediately. it can take some time. So during this time, it should be ensured that the weight of the body remains in control. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Sirsasana Head Stand Pose</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-do-shirshasana-headstand-posture.html">:</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">This posture is called Head Stand Pose, too. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For beginners, this posture would be a little bit difficult. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It would also help us to get relief from back pain or pain in leg and thigh muscles. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Regular practice of this posture, especially done in the morning time, would help us getting relief from back pain and pain in leg and thigh muscles. This posture allows the blood to flow more towards the head area. So it would help in increasing our memory power, too.</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Pavanmuktasana, </span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"><b>The Wind Releasing Posture</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">This posture is also called 'Wind Releasing Pose. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A person suffering from Sciatica would be benefited by doing this pose. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">It would reduce the pain of the muscles and paining veins. But the patients of sciatica must do this posture only in presence of a trained teacher.</span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">There are many other postures, too, which can be helpful in reducing the pain in sciatica. But most of them are advised to be done in the presence of a trained yoga teacher. The doctors advise certain yoga poses for stretching exercises. The following are some of these postures which are generally recommended.<br /></span></span></p><ul></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">If the body of a patient is already over-weight, he or she should take extra care of the same. The above-mentioned yoga postures would also help in reducing the weight of the body, too. Most of the poses would help in burning the extra fat deposited on various limbs of the body. Regular practice of doing yoga postures keeps our body active and well-balanced in every respect. </span></span></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-25220863691080974962010-04-09T11:36:00.006+05:302021-02-12T00:21:58.446+05:30Supine Yoga Poses, Lying Face Upward<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">NATARAJ ASANA</span></b></div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><p></p></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The meaning of the word 'Nataraj' is 'The Lord of Dancing'. Lord Shiva is believed to be the Nataraj. In fact, the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Natarajanasan</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b>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. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Natarajasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Natarajasana.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Natarajasana.jpg" style="text-align: right;">Mohan Yoga India</a><span style="text-align: right;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" style="text-align: right;">CC BY-SA 4.0</a><span style="text-align: right;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: black;"><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: black;"><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: black;"> Natarajanasan</b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">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.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">Benefits by doing Standing Yoga Poses : </span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is necessary to know that the standing position provides us with knowledge about the principles of having a proper alignment of our body. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Standing Alignment in Yoga</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #000066; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ONE FOOT POSTURE</b></span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Theme: Narrating the Easy Yoga Postures. Yogasana made easy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px; padding: 3px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; text-align: left;">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.</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">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.</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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 <b>Shavasana</b>, as it would give you more energy to go to the next session of doing yoga postures.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Trikonasana, Triangle Pose</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Trikonasana%2C_Heinz_Grill_(1992).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="509" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Trikonasana%2C_Heinz_Grill_(1992).jpg" width="203" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trikonasana,_Heinz_Grill_(1992).jpg" style="text-align: left;">Heinz Grill</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 4.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Easy Yoga Postures: Trikonasana, Triangle Pose Mountain yoga 8, triangle</span></b></p></div></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">How to do Triangle Pose</span></span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is one of the simplest yoga poses. First of all stand in Tadasana that is a straight standing position.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bend</span></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> 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.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Raise the right hand and twist your torso, so as it goes straight upward.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Twist your face and try looking ceiling. Right paw should be facing rightward.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Benefits of doing Triangle Pose, Trikonasana</span></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose helps in decreasing tension from our lower back.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If we do this pose regularly, it would help to strengthen abdominal muscles, improving our digestion function. </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It also reduces the extra fat deposited on the belly and thus helps in reducing obesity.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Upper legs get much exercise, as they remain stretched during this pose.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Hamstring and hips are actively involved while we do this pose. The twists and turns provide good exercise for them.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This yoga posture generates a sense of balance within our body.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">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. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This asana can be done in the manner shown above right also. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Trikonasana - Triangle Pose </span></span></span></span></span></p></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">Wearing Yoga Clothes</span></span></span></h2></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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</span>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">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. </span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">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.</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What is Power Yoga</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>How Power Yoga Works </b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="385" height="183" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is different from the usual form of yoga as it would almost test the level of</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"> 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.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-width: 1pt; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in;"><!--[endif]--></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Benefits of Doing Power Yoga</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">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. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The latent energy of our body would be recharged and we might feel rejuvenated. Excessive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> sweating would remove toxins from the body.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Yoga is a healing therapy, too. But many practitioners would take it as a tool for keeping themselves healthy and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">physically</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> 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.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Power Yoga Classes</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;">There are many classes providing guidance about yoga in general and power yoga in particular. the working or every class may </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">differ</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"> slightly or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">substantially</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> from each other. But their main objective is to provide the fitness-based services to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">the participants. They model their teaching or coaching on the yoga postures of Ashtang yoga. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">They would instruct the participants to act in keeping individual needs and health in focus.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">It is better to practice power yoga postures in open ground or on the terrace, a lot of seating would </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">occur</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> The sweat-absorbing clothes would be better for wearing while doing postures, as it would involve much breathing and result in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> more seating. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><p style="font-family: Verdana;"></p></span></span></div><p></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-58720506200194715532010-04-08T09:39:00.030+05:302021-02-12T00:22:08.570+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Back-bend Poses<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dhanurasana.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="Joseph RENGER, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Dhanurasana" height="144" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Dhanurasana.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div> <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Learn Yoga Posture with ease. How to do Backbends. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yoga postures render our body into various poses. Some of the yoga asanas would render our whole body bending backwards. </span></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Dhanur-asana, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;">Bow Shaped Yoga Posture</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Such postures can be labelled as ‘backbend’ postures, however, there is no such classification of the postures. While doing these backbends we could experience a sense of freedom. Doing this also involves an element of courage, as the bending backwards is not an easy job. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Such postures make our arms and shoulders more powerful. The spine would get proper exercise, too. The waist would get a maximum stretch in some of the postures. It could help in reducing back pain, too. Here is some yoga posture that would require our body to bend in the backside.</span></span></span></span></span></p><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">HOW TO DO DHANURASANA, Bow Pose</span></span></h4><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4P2mYcOGxbU" width="560"></iframe></span></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">First of all, unfold your Yoga net on the floor and lie down on your stomach.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Now keeping the palms upward, just position your chin on the floor. Then start bending your knees towards the body and finally grab both of your ankles with the respective hands.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Here the real Dhanur-asana starts. Keep inhaling slowly and try raising your knees by pulling the ankles with your hands. Simultaneously try raising your chest above the floor. When you can not inhale more, hold it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Once you tilt your head backwards, your body would come in a ‘Bow Posture’ as it is shown in the above image. You can hold your body in this posture as long as you can. But for the beginners, it would be advisable to keep for ten to thirty seconds.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">To get your body released from this asana, do all the things in reverse order.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p></span><b></b></span><b></b><p style="text-align: left;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BENEFITS OF DOING DHANURASANA</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></h4><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Meaning of the word Dhanur, a</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Sanskrit word, is ‘bow-shaped’. While doing this asana, the postures of our body look like a ‘Bow’. Thus it is named so; Look at the above image.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">All the asanas have their general benefits increasing the health and vitality of the human body. The Dhanur-asana has its peculiar benefits, too. Here are some of these:</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dhanur-asana helps to keep the flexibility of the spine in order and helps in reducing the back pain, both lower and upper.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It keeps our neck tension free.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It helps in digestion, too, as the area of abdominal muscles gets increased flow of blood by practising this asana. </span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p> </span></span></span></span></span></div></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><b>Urdhva Dhanurasana</b></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urdva_Dhanurasana.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="By Joseph RENGER [GFDL(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Urdva Dhanurasana" border="'0'" height="141" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Urdva_Dhanurasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 169px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urdva_Dhanurasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Meaning of the word Dhanur, a</span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sanskrit word, is ‘bow-shaped’. Here we can see the reverse of the bow. While doing this asana, the postures of our body look like a ‘Reverse Bow’. Thus it is named so. Look at the image. This pose is exactly the reverse of yoga asana known as </span></span></span><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-dhanurasana.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dhanurasana</span></span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, the Bow Pose. This posture would help to improve </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">spinal flexibility and stretching the shoulders and chest. It strengthens our arms and leg muscles, too.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How to Do</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Reverse Bow Pose</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We can see that in this yoga posture, we are to do the posture exactly the reverse of Dhanurasana, the Bow Pose. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing this asana, just lie down on your back, straight and in a relieved state of mind.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After you are on your back, just start pushing your back on the upper side of your body. do it slowly if you feel pain in your back of in another limb. </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Finally manage to balance your body on the base of your hands and feet. Here your feet and the palms would be your only attachments with your yoga mat.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Benefits of Doing</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Urdva Dhanurasana, Reverse Bow Pose</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Regular practice of</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Reverse Bow Pose improves the elasticity of our spine and the joints of the hip. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">It would help to slime our waist. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Due to rapid breathing, we would do during this asana, it helps to increase the capacity of our lungs to take more intake of oxygen. </span></p></span></span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><p></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;"></p></span></span></span></div></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Ardha_dhanurasana_2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="179" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Ardha_dhanurasana_2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 84px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; width: 188px;" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardha_dhanurasana_2.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How to do Ardh Dhanurasana, </span></b></h2><h2><b><span style="font-size: medium;">--Half Bow Pose</span></b></h2></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Beginners can do the above pose in half. This posture is known as the <b>Ardha Dhanurasana, Half Bow Pose.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Theme: Beck-bend Yoga Postures, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana</span></p></span></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Eka_Pada_Rajakapotasana_-_One_Legged_Royal_Pigeon_Pose.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Eka_Pada_Rajakapotasana_-_One_Legged_Royal_Pigeon_Pose.jpg" width="133" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eka_Pada_Rajakapotasana_-_One_Legged_Royal_Pigeon_Pose.jpg" style="text-align: left;">lululemon athletica</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br /></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 2.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While we do various yoga postures, our body takes various shapes. The names of yoga postures are given as per the shapes the posture makes. Sometimes it is named so looking to the benefits and the limbs of the body it involves. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rajakapot Asana or the King Pigeon Pose</span></p><p><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rajakapot Asana or the King Pigeon Pose makes renders our body in a particular shape. In the image given here, it has a special name. Eka Pada Rajakapotasana, as it involves on leg mainly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This posture involves backbend posture. It helps to open the hip portion of our body. This posture involves backbend intensely. So for the beginners, it would be advisable to do this asana in presence of a trained teacher</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></p></div></div><h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b>YOGA POSTURES: Ustrasana -Camel Pose</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 19px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ustrasana_-_Camel_Pose.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="lululemon athletica, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Ustrasana - Camel Pose" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Ustrasana_-_Camel_Pose.jpg/256px-Ustrasana_-_Camel_Pose.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ustrasana_-_Camel_Pose.jpg" style="text-align: left;">lululemon athletica</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 2.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">,<br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ustrasana_-_Camel_Pose.jpg" style="font-size: medium;"></a></span></span></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 19px;">This posture is known as Camel Pose. It has several benefits. If we do it regularly, it helps in curing many diseases. It is not very difficult yoga posture. The yoga posture of the Bow Pose is similar to this pose. But that is done by positioning our body differently. Here the step by step instructions is given.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p style="color: #000066; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><h4><b style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">How to Do Camel Pose</span></span></b></h4><p></p></span></span></span><ul><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;">Raise your heaps positioned over your knees. Keep the shoulders straight over your heaps.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Put your palms touching your hips. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Fingers should be facing the floor.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Your upper body would look like a circle. From this stage, start pushing your hips forward so that they come straight up on the knees.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now put your palms on your paws. Imagine here that there is a string tied with your waist that pulls you towards the sky.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Finally allow your head to come backside, opening the throat. Now the whole body would look like a camel and the pose would be 'camel pose'.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are a beginner, you should not remain for more time in this posture.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For a beginner, a stay of twenty seconds would be a sufficient exercise.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While doing camel pose, someone may be feeling like nausea. But it normally happens while doing such postures. You should find yourself comfortable after a while.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The women who are pregnant should avoid doing this posture. If they wish, they should do it after consulting a physician. A pregnant woman must do camel pose in the presence of a trained teacher only.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you do not feel tired, you can repeat doing this pose as many times you wish. If you feel exhausted, take a good rest.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Benefits of Doing Ustrasana</span></span></span></b></span></h4><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While we do camel posture, almost all the muscles of our body are stretched. This pose provides adequate exercise for the whole of our body. So it is a comprehensive exercise.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If this pose is done as shown in the above passage, it would provide good exercise to many limbs, including the chest, abdomen, and quadriceps. In short, the front side of our body gets fully involved.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If we do this posture regularly for a specific period, it would improve the flexibility of our spinal cord. </span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Those persons who suffer from backache would be benefitted very much. After doing camel pose for a week, they would feel some relief in the pain. </span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Adjust the yoga mat on the floor. Sit in kneeling position. If you feel pain or have a problem in your knees, you can take help of some padding.</span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p><p style="color: #000066; font-size: small;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"></p></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><p></p></span></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-21240240021916106912010-04-07T11:10:00.020+05:302021-02-12T00:22:19.073+05:30YOGA POSTURES: PLOUGH POSE, RAJ SARVANGASANA, SHIRSHASANA<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here are some yoga postures doing which we have to invert our body, bending backside. Yoga Postures: Halasana, Plough Pose, Sarvanga Asana, Whole body Posture, Shirshasana, Head Stand are some of the inversion poses. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is observed that many people get less blood flow in the brain and head. This could lead to lesser function by our brain; or it may lead to gradual memory loss, too. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Yoga Asana can be beneficial here. The teachers and regular practitioners of yoga believe that if we do the postures that would keep our body in an inverted position, it would help to increase the flow of blood to the brain. Here are some postures of Yoga that could help those who face less flow of blood in the head.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">HALA-ASANA</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">, the </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Plow Pose </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;">Halasana is a Sanskrit word made of two words, Hala and Asana. Meaning of Hala is ‘plough’. While doing this asana our body looks like a ‘Plough’. So it is named ‘Plough Pose’.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For beginners, this posture would be a little bit difficult. But you would like to do it, as you can do another difficult posture of </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">'Halasana, the Plow Posture</span>'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">from the shoulder Stand pose.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Caution: </span></span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The beginners should avoid remaining for more than ten seconds in this pose. It may cause minor pain in your neck.</span></span></span></p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #6600cc; line-height: 13.5pt;"><b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Halasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="360" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Halasana.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6600cc; line-height: 13.5pt;"><b></b></span></div><span style="color: #6600cc; line-height: 13.5pt;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><b>How to Do Halasana, the Plough Posture</b></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">First of all, you should lie on your yoga net. You should keep a rolled towel or a small pillow under your neck. It supports and protects the muscles of your neck.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Keep the back flat on floor and palms should be rested downwards. Start inhaling, slowly.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now start bending both the knees and draw them towards your stomach and keep exhaling.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While exhaling try raising both of your legs upward. Support your hips with your hands. The chin should be touching your chest. Finally, the torso should be straight and your paws facing the ceiling. This posture is called ‘Sarvanga Asana' or Shoulder Stand Pose</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">. This is also called Whole Body Posture.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now proceed on. Put your hands flat on the floor. Palms should be facing the floor.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Start bending your hips slowly so as your feet go in the opposite direction of your head. Let the feet go until your toes touch the yoga mat. Finally, your body would be in Plough Posture.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For coming into normal position, you are to do all the actions in their reverse order.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Plough pose is one of the three poses, which are recommended to activate the ‘Manipur Chakra’ of Kundalini. This is the third chakra of Kundalini, and it is above our belly button. For doing that, you are to do three poses in the sequence. First, you should do the ‘Shoulder Stand Posture’. From that posture, you can proceed to do the ‘Plough Pose’, as it is one step ahead from the same. Finally, your body would rest in Savasana or Shavasanan’, which is also called ‘Relaxation Pose’.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Benefits of Doing Plough Pose</b></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose helps us stretching all the muscles from toes to waist. So it improves the functioning of our veins.</span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing this pose, our spine is fully stretched. It makes the spine more elastic. The overall function of the spine is improved by doing this pose regularly.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If a person is facing indigestion or any other gastric problems, practising of Halasana would help him or her to a great extent.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Pregnant women should do this pose after getting proper guidance from their yoga teachers.</span></span></li></ul><p></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Here is one modification in the Halasan, the Plough Pose. You can give the support of your hand to your back. This would facilitate you to be for more time in this posture. In addition to that, such a pose would benefit in the case of back pain, too, as the hands rested on the back would help to ease the same. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">SARVA</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span">-ANGA ASANA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> :</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;">The word Sarvanga is a Sanskrit word comprised of two words. One is ‘Sarva (all) and another is ‘anga (lims). Thus it literally means “all the limbs”. As Sarvangasana or Shoulder Stand Posture is useful for the whole of the body, it is named like this. Sometimes it is referred to as “The Whole Body Posture”, too. While doing this asana, the whole body rests on the shoulders.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarnalberry/2479644534/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Salamba Sarvangasana</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">, originally uploaded by </span></span></span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/tarnalberry/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">tarnalberry</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shoulder Stand is an inverted pose. It is devised under the Hath Yoga system of yoga postures.</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></b></span></p><b style="color: black;"><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How to Do Shoulder Stand Pose</span></span></h2></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">First of all lie on your yoga mat: Keep the back flat on the floor. Both the palms should be resting downwards. Start inhaling, slowly.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now start it.</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bend both the knees and draw them nearer to your stomach. You should keep inhaling slowly until the knees reach up to the stomach. Here you would exhale.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Start inhaling again. Now you are to put all the pressure on the hands and try lifting your whole torso from the waist. It would make your spine into the shape of an ark.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">After the back is considerably up, exhaling and try raising both of your legs upward. Finally, you would keep your legs straight. Now the weight of your whole body would be on your shoulders.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For coming into normal position, you are to do all the actions in their reverse order. Finally, your body would be in Shavasana, the relaxation Pose.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><br /><b style="color: black;"><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="188" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" title="Marcocarvalho, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Joseph RENGER, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons <br /></span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Benefits of Doing Shoulder Stand Pose</span></span></h3></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sarvangasana</span></span></i></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">benefits our body and mind in several ways. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">It increases the flow of blood to the upper parts of our body. Such an increased flow of blood would help in increasing memory power.</span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Doing this pose regularly can provide health solutions in the cases of soaring of the throat and nasal congestion.</span></span></span></li></ul><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Raja Sarvangasana - Inverted position </span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing this pose you would notice that your back get adequate exercise. It helps in reducing back pain.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you feel uneasy by sleeping much, you will feel relieved after doing Shoulder Stand posture.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"></p><ul style="color: black;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Above all this asana involves almost every limb of the body, as its name suggests, it helps to keep our body healthy and fit.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="color: black;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br /></p></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">sarvanga-asana</span></span></span></span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> benefits our body and mind in several ways. It increases the flow of blood to the upper parts of our body that helps to heal many disorders. We can have beneficial effects of the problem in soaring of the throat and nasal congestion. It helps in back pain. If you feel uneasy by sleeping much, you would feel relieved after doing this asana. Above all this asana involves almost every limb of the body, as its name suggests, it keeps body healthy and fit. Regular practice would help in the long run.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Shirshasana.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-do-shirshasana-headstand-posture.html">Shirshasana</a></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></span><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If the whole body of yours is supported on your forearms; if your head is touching the floor; and your feet are facing straight to the sky; you must be in the state of ‘Sirsasana’, or ‘Headstand Yoga Posture’.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As this posture makes us stand on the strength of our head, it is named Headstand Posture. Sanskrit word for it is Shirshasna, but it is pronounced as ‘Sirsasana’ or ‘Sirshasana’, too.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">While being on mere support of the head, we can take the assisting support of our palms or ankles as shown in these two illustrated postures. </span>As this posture makes us stand on the strength of our head it is named as Sirshasana, the Head Stand Posture. While being on mere support of the head, we can take the assisting support of our palms or ankles as shown in these two illustrated postures.</p></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"></span></span></b></span></p><b><h2><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">How to Do Shirshasana</span></span></h2></b></span><b></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Arial;">Here is step-by-step guidance for doing this pose. It is one of the most difficult postures. But it can be done in two stages.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-font-weight: boldfont-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Stage One</span></b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Come to kneeling position and put your forearms fully touching the floor. The fingers are to keep interlaced.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Put your head on the area cupped by your fingers and the forearms.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Then raise your waist as straight as possible. You can do it by taking your feet closer to head. It will send your hips over your shoulder. In this position, your body would make the shape of a triangle on the floor. This posture is an independent yoga posture. It is called Raja Grivasana. You can stay in this pose as long as you like.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Stage Two</span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After you feel comfortable in Raja Gricasana, the last pose, as shown above, you would try lifting your feet and dragging knees near to your chest.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let the feet be settled for a while.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The slowly and steadily try raising legs up. You should not worry if you fail to do it for one or two days.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">After the legs are straight and upward, the ‘Headstand Posture’ is completed. You are to remain in this pose for ten seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When you decide to end the pose, first put your one of the legs on the floor and then another.</span></li></ul><p></p></div></span></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial;"><h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Shirshasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="231" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Shirshasana.jpg" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shirshasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Benefits of Doing Sirsasana</span></h3></span></span></b></div> <p style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Like all other postures, it increases the flow of blood to our head and brain. This in turn would result in improvement of intellectual functions. It would help in increasing our memory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It would help us to get relief from back pain or pain in leg and thigh muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">A person suffering from Sciatica would also be benefited. But in that case, this posture must be done in presence of a trained teacher.</span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Like all other yoga postures, Shirshasana would benefit us by making the muscles of our body str</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000066;">onger. It would help us to get relief from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">back pain or pain in leg and thigh muscles. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> SHIRSHASANA</b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;">As in this posture our head would be in the downside, it would enable the flow of blood to be in full force in our head. Thus it would heal in making our brain to function with more strength.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"></p></span></span></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-48007248056368496922010-04-06T09:41:00.005+05:302021-02-12T00:22:38.296+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Forward Bend Poses<span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do the different postures of Yoga.</span><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_grivasana.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja grivasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Raja_grivasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 226px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Rája Grivásana</b> - Inverted position preparation, Head Stand Posture.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This posture is one of the easiest postures. Generally, this posture is done before doing Sirsasana. However, RajaGrivasana</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> is itself an independent pose, known as '</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Head Stand Posture'. Only the pregnant woman should do take care. She should ask her trained yoga instructor before doing this pose.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">How to Do Raj Grivasana</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here is step-by-step guidance for doing this pose. </span></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Come to kneeling position and put your forearms fully touching the floor. The fingers are to keep interlaced.</span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Put your head on the area cupped by your fingers and the forearms.</span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Then raise your waist as straight as possible. You can do it by taking your feet closer to head. It will send your hips over your shoulder. </span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">In this position, your body would make the shape of a triangle on the floor. This posture is an independent yoga posture. It is called Raja Grivasana. </span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">You can stay in this pose as long as you like. </span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Benefits of Doing </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Raj Grivasana</span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Doing of this posture would give almost all the benefits that Sirsasana would give. Like all other postures, it increases the flow of blood to our head and brain. This in turn would result in improvement of intellectual functions. It would help in increasing our memory.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It would help us to get relief from back pain or pain in leg and thigh muscles.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">A person suffering from Sciatica would also be benefited. But in that case, this posture must be done in presence of a trained teacher.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When we are doing the inverted asanas, we are acting against the force of gravity. This would give feeling some strange facts about our body and the functioning of various systems. <span></span>We could feel rejuvenated experiencing a new perspective of life and health. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">(Image Courtesy By Marcocarvalho [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_grivasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a> </span></li></ul></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/250px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/250px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 18px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 18px;" /></a><b>Balasana, The Child Pose [Forward-Bend]</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">The yoga postures render our body in different positions. There is hardly any muscle or limb that is not being activated by one of this asana. Here some postures putting our body in forwarding bend postures are given. These postures help stretching all the limbs that we might not be stretching while doing our general work. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">These exercises and yoga postures provide good exercises to calves, hips and the hamstrings. Hath Yoga has devised postures providing complete exercise to all of the limbs and muscles of our body. This posture, Balasana, Child Pose is one of the simplest yoga postures. It provides exercises to back muscles and calves. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></b></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/250px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/250px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 18px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 18px;" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">How to do Child Pose</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></b><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Before doing this posture, you can seat in Vajrasana, The Thunderbolt posture. It’s a posture where we sit kneeling on the floor keeping the knees wide. </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">After that position, just exhale and let the head be touching the floor. The whole torso would be pasted on the thighs. The hands would be simply put backwards alongside the torso. The shoulder should be as near to the floor as possible. This posture can be practised as one of the relaxing postures like </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Corpse Pose</span><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Uttanasana</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Uttanasana_variation.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="325" height="320" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Uttanasana_variation.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><br />Any of the variations of these Standing Forward bend postures would work as stress-reducing exercise. You would feel that the element of fatigue and anxiety is considerably reduced after doing this posture. </span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uttanasana_variation.jpg" style="text-align: left;">The original uploader was Nemonoman at English Wikipedia.</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" style="text-align: left;">GPL</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">There are certain postures that would benefit much if this asana is done in sequence.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">This Asana is very easy to do. You just bend forward and try to touch your knees with your head. Those who have some back-pain or muscle-pain should avoid doing this Uttasana.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">It is always advisable to do certain Yoga poses in the presence of a yoga teacher. After getting sufficient training, one can do almost all the yoga poses.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Paschimottanasana</span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></b></span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-paschimottanasana.html"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: nonecolor:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></b></span></a></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">: </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Paschimottanasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="800" height="234" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Paschimottanasana.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paschimottanasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />This posture is relatively an easy one. You can feel very much relaxed after doing this asana. It provides good exercise to the muscles of the back, legs and the hands. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">It is advised for weight loss and back pain. This posture would provide enough exercise for the calves, too.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-do-lion-pose-simhasana.html"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">SINHASANA, </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">the</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Lion </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Pose</span></span></span></b></span></a><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Regular practice of Lion Pose would help to improve the memory power. The mind would function with a renewed flow of energy. While doing this asana, we would find that our respiration become regularizes. Due to the regularized and respiration, you would get the improvement if you are suffering from throat-trouble.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; white-space: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">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 </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoga-postures-how-to-do-corpse-pose.html"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shavasana</span></span></span></b></span></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">, as it would give you more energy to go to the next session of doing yoga postures. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-28198701375035462802010-04-04T18:29:00.016+05:302021-03-28T11:32:14.236+05:30YOGA POSTURES FOR HIP JOINTS<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Our anatomy is made of bones and joints. The joints get friction when we move our body. Hence the lubricating material that keeps out joints so smoothly working gets depreciated. These lubricating materials are again received from our intake of balanced food. But in cases of overuse of our body parts, the certain part gets much imbalanced. This creates pain after a certain period. The pain in hip joints is one of the outcomes of such overuse of our body part. </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yoga Postures for Hip Joints</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Dvipada Pitham</b></span></span></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dvipada_pitham.jpg" title="By Joseph RENGER [GFDL(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Dvipada pitham" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Dvipada_pitham.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a>The Sanskrit word Dvi Pada Pitham is comprised of three different words. Its</span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">literal meaning is ‘two legs and chair’. Another meaning of the word ‘Pitham’ is back also.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">This posture is called the Bridge Pose. It combines breathing technique and physical exercises. Its overall aim is to activate every limb of our body. You would find doing this pose easy.</span></span></div></span></span></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How to Do Bridge Pose<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ensure that your belly is empty. It is advisable to do this pose before taking food or drinks.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spread your yoga mat on the ground and lie down in a relaxing pose. The face should be upward and the eyes should look at the ceiling. At the starting point, just stretch your hands straight in direction of your feet.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Raise your knees and keep both feet near to buttocks. But they should not touch your buttocks.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now take hold of your feet with both of your palms. It would make your belly a little bit lifted.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Inhale as much as you can and hold the breath inside for a while.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keeping your feet firmly held in palms, try raising your back upwards.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The lifting of the back is to be done with inhaling. And when you lower your back again on a yoga mat, you are to exhale. This posture creates a rhythm in our breathing.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You can lower your back on the mat to take some rest. This pose can be repeated as many times as you wish. If you feel tired, you can do it after taking a rest.</span></li></ul><div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Benefits of </span></span></span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Doing</span></span></span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Bridge</span></span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> Pose</span></span></span></span></b></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When we do this pose, the pelvic muscles are stretched. It provides adequate exercise to the pelvic, abdominal and leg muscles.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The spinal cord would be slightly bent and fully stretched.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While doing this pose, your head would be downward. It creates more flow of blood going towards the area of the head. The increased flow of blood would benefit us in long run. But in the short-run, it helps in increasing the level of our memory power.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This pose involves constant inhaling and exhaling. This makes us feel fresh and energetic.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This pose can be done before doing other difficult poses, which involves great care and more strength. We can do this asana at any time of the day, but the morning time would be more suitable.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">After doing it for one week constantly you would find that your appetite is increased. As it gets the abdominal muscles working much, it would increase your desire to take more food. </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Dvipada Pitham </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">(Image courtesy By Joseph RENGER [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA-3.0</a> or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0">CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dvipada_pitham.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p></p></span></span></span></div></div></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;"><b>
</b></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/easy-yoga-postures-cobra-pose.html" style="color: #6600cc; line-height: 18px;">Cobra Pose:</a></span></span></b></div></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;">It is experienced that the Cobra Pose, which is known as </span><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/easy-yoga-postures-cobra-pose.html" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bhujangasana</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"> is one of the most useful exercises for those who have complaints about lower backaches. The regular practising of this Yogasana would help to decrease some stiffness in the lower back, even in the initial stage of exercising. Cobra Pose provides strain to the muscles in the chest area, so it enlarges the chest and strengthens arms.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-do-lion-pose-simhasana.html">PAVANMUKTASANA:</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-do-lion-pose-simhasana.html"> </a></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is one of the easy types of asanas. You would hardly find any difficulty in doing it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Wind releasing posture</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">helps in releasing the gas from the intestines.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"></div><ul style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">First, lie down on the floor or the Yoga net, with legs, kept straight and in a forwards position.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Taking a deep breath, start bending both knees. Alternatively, you can bring in only one knee, and repeat the same for another.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Release breath and press the folded legs near to abdomen, as near as you can. </span></span></span></span></li></ul><div style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halasana.jpg" style="color: blue; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" title="By Joseph RENGER[see page for license], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Halasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Halasana.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(207, 226, 243); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(207, 226, 243); border-left-color: rgb(207, 226, 243); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(207, 226, 243); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(207, 226, 243); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.098) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 135px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.in/2010/04/yoga-postures-inversion-poses.html">Plough Pose</a></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.in/2010/04/yoga-postures-inversion-poses.html"> </a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">Plough Pose is another posture that could help in curing the hip joints. Those who face acute pain for their joint should avoid doing this; and those who want to do it. they should do this pose in the presence of a trained teacher only.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #0e0e81; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></div></span><div style="color: #0e0e81; line-height: 18px; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.in/2010/04/yoga-postures-inversion-poses.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Halasana</span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">, Plough Posture</span></span></span></b></a></span></div><div style="color: #0e0e81; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Halasana is a Sanskrit word made of two words, Hala and Asana. The meaning of Hala is ‘plough’. While doing this asana our body looks like a ‘Plough’. So it is named ‘Plough Pose’.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></div></span></span></div></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-60663490343776633142010-01-22T12:07:00.022+05:302021-02-12T00:22:56.958+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Sitting Position<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px; font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; 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-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Padmasana, Lotus Pose</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;">We can see from all the paintings and idols of Buddha that this posture was his favourite. He is always depicted as sitting in Padmasana. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;">Moreover, it is the most favourite posture among all of those practice yoga postures.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padmasana_feminino.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Padmasana feminino" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Padmasana_feminino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 258px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 189px;" /></a>Sitting Alignment in Yoga: </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Asana is a Sanskrit word meaning to keep our body in a particular posture. The great Yogi Patanjali had devised many asanas, the postures, which were steady and comfortable. His teaching is known as Ashtanga Yoga, too. Most of the postures are practised to achieve better physical and mental health, as these yoga postures have a deep impact on our body, mind and soul. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-padmasana-lotus-pose.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Padmasana, Lotus Pose</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The meaning of ‘Padma’, a Sanskrit word, is the lotus. While sitting in this posture, the human body looks like a lotus. Thus it is named </span><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-padmasana-lotus-pose.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">‘Padma Asana’</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">. Padmasana is a basic posture for many yogic acts. If you want to do chanting for longer hours it is convenient to sit in this asana. As narrated by Patanjali, sitting in this posture makes the energy of the human body takes its natural shape, helping to heal several disorders in the body. It is believed that those who practice Padmasana would get help in </span><span class="Apple-style-span">awaking Kundalini.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BENEFITS OF DOING PADMASANA.</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #000066; line-height: 150%;">Padmasana is a basic posture for many yogic acts. If you want to do chanting for longer hours it is convenient to sit in this pose. As narrated by Patanjali, sitting in this posture makes the energy of the human body taking its natural shape. It helps in healing several disorders in our body. It is believed that those who practice Padmasana would get help in awaking Kundalini.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All the yogis and their pupils prefer to be in this posture while doing the various breathing exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You just sit on the floor or on yoga net, spreading your legs in forwarding position.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Arrange your left foot on the right thigh and the right on your left thigh.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Keep the upper half of body straight and put left hand on left knee and right on the right knee. The palms should be facing upward.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Then keep the tips of both the thumbs just touching your index fingers.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #999999; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; border-spacing: 1px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">Thunderbolt pose or Vajrasana is a modified way of sitting. One would not get tired for hours if he or she sits in this manner. It would keep the whole weight of the body on the legs and in a balanced manner. The spine would remain straight automatically due to the pose.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Vajrasana, The Thunderbolt Yoga Posture</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">BENEFITS OF VAJRA ASANA: It has been noticed that regular practise of this asana increases the secretion from the glands, which are vital for the physical and mental health of a person.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Along with other benefits of doing Yogic posture, Vajrasana helps the digestion process and assists in eliminating the gastric troubles. Those who have suffered from the pain in the knee would be benefited by doing this posture.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FCNwMo0WzAI/SqJznS9wI8I/AAAAAAAACXs/7oWQvN8cRxw/s1600-h/3569040493_50acb22371.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></span>HOW TO DO VAJRA ASANA</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">First of all, sit on the floor by extending your legs forward and putting the palms resting.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then bend your one leg from the knee and put it just below the buttock. Repeat the same act for another leg, in a way that the things rest on the legs and the buttocks on the heels.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Keep the breathing at normal speed. Even if you do not try keeping the breath normally, it will catch its normal speed naturally!</span></li></ul><ul style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Put both the hands resting on thighs and sit erect. You might feel some pain in ankles, knees or toes; but gradually it will be set right.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>YOGA POSTURES: Paschimottanasana, and Uttanasana</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Paschimottanasana</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sanskrit word ‘</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Paschimottanasana’ is made of three words: ‘Paschim’, ‘tana’ and ‘Asana’. Meaning of ‘Paschima’ is ‘posterior’ and ‘tana’ means a stretch. This pose is named so because while doing it we stretch our back or the posterior part of the body.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">How to Do </span></b></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Paschimottanasana</span></b></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span">First of all, you are to sit on your Yoga Net or on the floor.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Then stretch your legs forward on the floor and arrange your torso and head in the straight line upward.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">The pelvis should make the right angle to the legs.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Once your legs are stretched fully, hold your big toes with index fingers. You should make hooks of your fingers.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">If you feel pain in doing so you can lift your legs upward and then catch the hold of the toes as shown above. Then slowly try to push your legs downward so as they fully touch yoga mat.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Alternatively, you can keep your palms holding your whole paws.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">After the toes are in your fingers, try bending your hip forward, slowly and not causing any pain. If you feel pain have some rest and try it later. No yoga teacher would insist that you should do any over-stretching of any muscle.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Finally, get your trunk parallel to your legs. This will make your body looking folded from your back.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">It would be better if your head is touching your knees.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">You can remain in this posture as long as you can. But avoid remaining for long in the beginning.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></li>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Benefits of Doing Paschimottanasana</span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span">This posture is relatively easy to do. By taking a little care about your back muscle, you can do it without much trouble.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">This is one type of forwarding bend postures of yoga. It would provide a comprehensive exercise to the abdominal and pelvic muscles.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">It also stretches the kidney and upper side of the back.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">You can feel very much relaxed after doing this asana, as it would provide good exercise to you back and leg muscles.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">The muscles of hands would also get a good stretch.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Those who complain about having pain in their back, they can feel better after doing this pose regularly for one week.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga teachers advised this pose to those who want to shed their extra pounds of fat.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">After doing Paschimottanasana</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"> for two weeks you might find your tummy lighter and the belly proceeding inside.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Those persons who are having larger belly should do this posture after consulting a physician. Preferably they should do this pose in the presence of a trained teacher.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">The forward bend yoga postures help stretching the limbs that we might not be stretching in general work. The Uttanasana would provide good exercises to our calves, hips and the hamstrings.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Before doing this posture you may do </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Paschimottanasana</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">. It would help you to prepare your thighs and leg muscles to be ready for a standing forward bend posture. After doing this posture, you should do the Shavasana, </span></span></span><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/11/yoga-postures-how-to-do-corpse-pose.html"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Corpse Pose</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> the relaxing pose.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; white-space: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">-- After positioning your body in Tadasana, the straight standing pose, put your hands on the hips. While you exhale bend your torso forward. While bending, the aim should be to get your torso more and more bent forward.</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Benefits of Doing Uttanasana</span></span></span></span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">In addition to the general benefits of doing Yoga Postures, the Forward Bending Pose, Uttanasana would provide other benefits to those who practice it regularly.</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">The first and important advantage of doing this posture is that it would strengthen our thighs and knees.</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">As it provides good exercises to the intestines, too, it would help our digestion process positively.</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">If you feel stressed after working during the day, this asana would help to reduce your stress. As the head is going downward in this posture, the blood supply in the head would be sufficiently increased.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">In any of these variations, this yoga pose would work as a stress-reducing activity. The element of fatigue and anxiety is considerably reduced after doing this posture.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is also observed that those who are suffering from the difficulties of insomnia have been benefited by doing this posture. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy By Nemonoman at en.wikipedia [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fb1.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a> ) (Image courtesy By Joseph RENGER (œuvre personnelle) [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA-3.0</a> or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0">CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uttanasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose helps in opening the abdomen muscles. As you can see from the image, the hip part of our body is touching the ground, but the entire portion of the spinal cord is fully lifted upward. It helps in reducing the mid-back spinal pain, too.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The pectoral muscles are stretched in full while we do the fish pose. This would provide good exercises to the neck, breasts, and the chest. By http://theholisticcare.com [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_pose-Matsyasana.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Dwapada_urdhwa_ardha_matsyasana.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Dwapada_urdhwa_ardha_matsyasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 137px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 429px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Dwapada Urdhwa Ardh <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Matyasana</span></span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This asana can be done with one variation. After positioning the whole body as shown above, you should lift your legs upward. Keep both the legs </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">straight</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"> and the paws straight in the direction of the wall, and not to the sky. As our body is required to use both the legs and keep it upward, this pose is named as Dwapada (two legs) Urdhwa (Up) Ardh Matsyasana. [Image </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">courtesy By Marcocarvalho (Own work) [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwapada_urdhwa_ardha_matsyasana.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a>]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Precautions</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While doing this posture, or postures similar to this one, a yoga exercise doer should keep some important factors in mind. These factors are relating to health. If you are suffering from low pressure or high pressure of blood, you should take doctor’s advice before doing such poses. In any other physical difficulties, it should be done in the presence and guidance of a trained yoga teacher.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This postures can be done in half also. It is called Ardh-Matsyasana</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Ardha </span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="display: inline;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Matsyendrasana</span></span></span></b></span></h1>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><h1 class="content_body_title1" style="display: inline; font-variant: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This asana was devised by a Yogi whose name was Matsyendra. So the Yoga Posture is named after him. But the Purn Matsyendra is difficult for the beginners to do easily. Thus the Half Spinal Twist Posture is devised. It is called the Ardh Matsyendrasana.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">How to Do Half Spinal Twist Posture</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;">
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is one of the easiest poses; it involves the movements of only hands and legs.</span></span></span></span></div>
</b></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">After putting your yoga net, sit in kneeling position. You shout be sitting on your feet and both the heels should be pointing outward. You can sit in Thunderbolt Pose (Vajrasana), too.</span></span></span></span></div>
</b></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now put your right hand on the mat and lift the left leg putting it over right leg with the help of left hand. Here the foot should be placed outside of the right knee.</span></span></span></span></div>
</b></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Keep your spine in a straight posture, placing right side heel touching the buttocks.</span></span></span></span></div>
</b></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now feel free and widen your both the hands so that they become straight at the level of your shoulders. Thereafter twist both the hands leftward. Here keep in mind that there you should not feel pain in your back muscle. If you feel so, tell your yoga teacher about it.</span></span></span></span></div>
</b></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Finally, you are to take hold of your right foot with your left hand and twist the whole torso rightward. The right hand would be on the floor on the right side of your body. Here the Half spinal Twist Pose is complete. You can repeat the same pose by changing the side. In that case, you would start by putting your left foot on the right side. This would provide exercise to the whole body in general and to the spinal cord in particular</span></span></span></span></div></b></span></li></ul></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/yoga%20asanas/Heidijasmine/Yoga%20Asanas/d8c6ae1a.jpg?o=11" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Heidijasmine/Yoga%20Asanas/d8c6ae1a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Benefits of Doing Half Spinal Twist Posture</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">·</span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Regular practise of this asana increases the flexibility of our spine.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">·</span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Shoulders and chest would see a noticeable expansion after a time.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those who are practising yoga since few days would also find that this yoga posture of the exercise is only easy to do but it would help to stimulate the interest into the yoga asana. It is like massaging the internal organs of our body. Practising the yoga postures regularly, you would be keeping those parts of body activating which are not used in ordinary activities of your life. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Image at top courtesy By Joseph RENGER [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA-3.0</a> or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0">CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardha_matsyendrasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a>]</span></span></span></div>
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NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-85806406026276602972009-11-27T09:50:00.004+05:302021-02-12T00:23:06.553+05:30How To Do Pavanmuktasana - Wind Releasing pose, Lion Pose, Simhasana<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">THEME: Learn doing Yoga Exercises. How to do Yoga Postures. Learn Yoga Asanas.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/A_style_of_pavanamuktasana_(cropped).JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="800" height="221" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/A_style_of_pavanamuktasana_(cropped).JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_style_of_pavanamuktasana_(cropped).JPG" style="text-align: left;">Thamizhpparithi Maari</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Pavanmukta Asana, </span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;">Wind Releasing pose</span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The word Pavanmuktasana is comprised of three Sanskrit words. First is ‘Pavan (wind)’, the second is ‘Mukta (release), and the third is ‘asana’. Full meaning of the word is ‘a posture that helps to release wind or gas (from our body). It is named like this because this yoga pose helps in releasing the gases from intestines.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><b><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How to Do Pavanmuktasana</span></span></h2></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">There are many yoga postures which are easy to do. The beginners can start doing this. This asana is one of the easiest poses. No one would find it difficult. However, it gives many benefits to us. Here it is shown how this pose is done. The instructions are step by step.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">First, lie down on the floor. You can use a yoga mat or simple cloth to put below your body. While lying down your legs should be straight.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Inhale and take hold of your leg with both of the palms. Palms should be below the knees. This will make your one leg half-bent on your body.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Lift up your head and try to get your knee near to your head. It would be better if you can make your nose-tip touching the knee. At this moment release your breath and try to keep your leg near to your abdomen.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Remain in this pose for ten seconds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Stretch your leg in its original position. Take a deep breath and rest for twenty seconds. After that, you can repeat the same action by holding another leg with your palms.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">You can repeat this pose as many times as you wish.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><span><b><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Benefits of Doing Pavanmuktasana</span></span></h3></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you practice this asana regularly, you would find it helps in regulating the movement of the gases present in the body. It would be good if you do this pose in the early morning. Remember that this pose is to be done before taking any food. The stomach should be empty.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">As its name suggests, this yoga posture helps in regulating and releasing the wind/gas in our body. It would eliminate the unnecessary gases from our intestines.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">It stretches our intestines. This helps in making our bowel function regular. If a person suffers from, he or she would be greatly helped.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Those who suffer from acidity would get relief.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Doing Pavanmuktasana helps in relaxing the whole body. It relaxes the muscles of our lower back. The muscles of the hands and legs get good exercise.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Above all this asana keeps us fit and helps in reducing extra fat deposited in our body. Thus it works as a weight-reducing tool, too. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #000066; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Simhasana, Lion Pose</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Theme: How to Do Yogasanas. Yoga Postures for Health and Fitness. Lion Pose, the Simhasana</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: right; color: #000066; float: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" height="320" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2824247311_358e225118.jpg" width="281" /></span></span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24047515@N06/2824247311/" title="photo sharing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24047515@N06/2824247311/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Simhasana 2</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">, originally uploaded by </span></span></span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/24047515@N06/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">tadasimha</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">.</span></span></span></div></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Meaning of the Sanskrit word ‘Simha’ is "Lion". When we are in this Yoga Posture, the shape of our body looks like a lion. Thus this asana is known as ‘Lion Pose’. This asana is one of the easy postures. Those who are beginners, they can do this pose without much assistance from their teachers. Other more complicated postures would require the presence and active guidance of a trained teacher.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Lion pose is different than other poses of yoga. This is the pose that benefits our vital limbs like </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">face, jaw, mouth, throat and tongue.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"> There are perhaps no other similar poses which would provide exercises to these parts of our body.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">How to Do Lion Pose</span></span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Step-by-Step</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Settle yourself in kneeling position on your yoga mat. You can sit in a posture called Thunderbolt. That would be the most comfortable position. Put the front of your right ankle over the back of the left. The feet should be pointing out to the sides. The perineum should be positioned in snuggling down onto the top your right heel.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Before starting the lion pose, you are to exhale. Then put both the hands stretched on the floor. Keep the fingers of the hands wide open. You can also keep the fingers in a manner so as they look like the claws of a big bird.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now inhale deeply. Ensure that the inhaling should be done by nose only, and not by mouth.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Open your mouth wide and stretch the tongue out as if you intend to touch your chin by the tongue. Keep the tip of the tongue down toward the chin. Both the eyes should be kept in the wide-open position.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then exhale slowly with uttering the sound “Ha”. Repeating of the same word would provide ample exercise to your throat muscles. You can repeat this pose as many times you wish.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">After doing this posture, you can come again to a kneeling position.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">Benefits of Doing Lion Pose</span></span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This posture provides adequate exercise to the muscles of face, throat and eyes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing this asana, we would find that our respiration becomes regularized. Due to the regularized respiration, one would get improvement in certain ailments, especially if he or she is suffering from any trouble in the throat.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Regular practice of Lion Pose would help to improve the memory power. Your mind would function with a renewed flow of energy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the pose indicates it would provide adequate exercises to the muscles of the chest and abdomen, the practitioner would be benefited in this respect, too.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana;"></p></span></div><p></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-13882191755425657202009-10-14T23:55:00.015+05:302021-02-12T00:23:50.377+05:30YOGA: Lose Weight and Burn Stress by Yoga Postures and Ayurvedic Solutions<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Padmasana_.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="650" height="143" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Padmasana_.jpg" width="131" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padmasana_.jpg" style="text-align: left;">UmaPrykhodko</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 4.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Yoga is an ancient system of keeping body and mind healthy. It is practised in India for seven thousand years. The Asthanga Yoga and the System known as Patanjalee Yoga is some of the well-known set of Yoga Postures. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Padmasana</b></span></span><span style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066;"><p style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Padmasana is very easy to practice. What we are required to do is to just sit in the position given here. The beginners might be in dilemma about the benefits they might be getting by practising the Yoga Asanas. Here are some basic primary advantages that a practitioner of yoga postures would expect to have.</span></p></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VPzbIGpmHiQ" width="560"></iframe></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">STRESS BUSTER</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Padmasana_feminino.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Padmasana_feminino.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 258px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; width: 189px;" width="147" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Image courtesy By <br />Marcocarvalho <br />[<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <br /><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padmasana_feminino.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;">)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;">It is needless to add that the yoga postures are not only the set of physical exercises. The postures are devised to deliver more than that. The yoga asanas are one of the best successful devices used to decrease mental stress. With reducing the level of stress, yoga can help to augment the strength of our mind to focus more. Practice it and found it yourself.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><b>FAT BURNING : </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The lack of physical work and dieting habit can be a good cause for our body fat to accumulate on the limbs wherever it likes. This deposits of fat lead us to obesity and scores of other problems. The regular doers of yoga postures have found that the body weight remains control due to doing a set of selected yoga asana. </span></span><span style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: #003300; text-align: left;"></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BETTER SHAPING OF BODY</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There can be no better factor than our good health that could make us looking fit and in good shape. The yoga practices provide us with the opportunity to render ourselves healthy and remain always in good shape. </span></span><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing yoga you would not need any exercising machines or any costly gadgets for physical fitness. You can have one yoga mat, one or two pair of yoga wears and a place where you can feel at home. For the beginners, it would be better to start from doing the easy yoga postures. </span></span></div><span><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #000066;">Ayurvedic Solutions For Weight Loss</b></h4></span><div style="text-align: justify;">Those who have put on more weight than the idea level keeps two things in their minds: first obesity and second the weight loss. </div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">Once suffering from the difficulties of overweight a person wanders in every lane suggested by the doctors. Even they tend to follow the methods used by their friends and relatives for reducing the weight.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div></div><p style="color: #003300; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A person engages herself or himself in certain activities: experimenting with all the methods of weight loss; taking food intakes as suggested by doctors and other experienced persons; doing regular exercises and whatnot. But when the result is not visible on the body of self, he or she gets much disappointed. But I would say that my dear friend, you are not the only person suffering the problem of being overweight.</span></span></p><div style="color: #003300; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><div style="color: #000099; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div><div style="color: #000099;"></div></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Reasons for Fat Deposits</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">: I am not here to suggest any additional measure to arrest the increasing fat on your body. I have some experience, personal and heard from those who have succeeded partially in this field. Here are some methods suggested in Ayurved. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span">According to an allopathic branch of ailment and Ayurvedic studies, obesity occurs when excess fat builds up. This excess fat buildup is caused when a person consumes more calories in one day than that person is able to burn off. In men, the fats usually begin to form around the stomach area, and in women, the fat usually forms around the waist area. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000099;">Here are </span><span style="color: #000099;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Some Ayurvedic Suggestions</span></i></span><span style="color: #000099;"> for improving the digestion power and thus arresting obesity:</span></p></div><ul style="color: #003300;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Keep sipping hot water throughout the day.</span></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #003300;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Exercise regularly according to your body type. </span></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #003300;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Observe fast for one day per week and take liquids of fruits as food intakes. </span></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #003300;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Cultivate taking tea with ginger or use more ginger in food or as a mouth freshener. </span></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: #003300;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Consult Ayurvedic practitioner</span></span></span></li></ul></div></div></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-75915072133490305082009-10-08T23:49:00.014+05:302021-02-12T00:24:01.825+05:30Easy Yoga Postures : Cobra Pose<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="385" height="182" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_bhujangasana_2.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The Cobra Pose is called Bhujangasana in Sanskrit. It is named so because when we are in this pose, our posture resembles a snake. Moreover, a snake has a strong and straight spine. This pose would help us to keep our spine well balanced.</span></span></span><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">If the flexibility of the spine is to be increased, this is the yoga pose that can help us. In doing this Bhujangasana, we stretch our shoulders and it strengthens our spine area. In addition to this, this pose helps in toning the muscles of the abdomen, spine, and even the buttocks. This yoga pose is one of the beck-bend types of poses.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Those who practise the variants of Cobra pose have described their benefits. Doing </span></span></span>Cobra Poseon regular basis, help to reduce the fat deposited in our belly region. The belly-fat is seen to have reduced after regularly doing this pose. In addition to this, the problem of constipation is also eased, as the Yoga Poses increases the general strength of our body, and the digestion is also improved.</span></span></span></span></p><h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">How to Do Cobra Pose</span></span></b></span></h4><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">The manner in which we can do the Cobra pose is given below. It is something like a set of procedures which we are to follow while doing Bhjangasana. Try to follow it carefully. Those who face spinal aches should avoid this for some time.</span></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After arranging your yoga mat on the floor, just lie face-down.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keep your palms pasted on the floor. Keep both the legs together and stretched.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now drag your palms below your shoulders and inhale.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Press your palms on the floor and try lifting your back upward.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lift your body to the level where you are on your palms and toes.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Finally, arrange your torso straight so as your head comes just over your palms. Here the whole body would look like a cobra with its raised head.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Those who complain about feeling pain in their back would certainly benefit from doing this pose.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is one of the whole body postures, as it provides exercise to the whole of our body.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This posture is done as a regular yoga exercise. The suitable time doing it is the early morning. You can do it before going out for the job. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">If we repeat the same pose for several times, it would be a good warm-up.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">cobra pose strengthens the muscles of arms and chest, as half of the body weight falls on the arms. Both the shoulders would be stronger if this pose is done regularly.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">If these poses are done as a therapy, you can reduce the extra fat deposited on your thighs and buttocks. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">If a person does cobra pose at the end working of a day, he or she would feel very much relieved. It would make us feeling stress-free.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some women have found this pose helping them to combat irregular menstruation. It might vary according to the respective health of the women, but practising of Cobra Pose would certainly help them.</span></span></li></ul><p></p></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><p></p> <h4 style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How to Do Ardha Bhujangasana, Half Cobra Pose</span></b></h4></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/IMG_0549_2_Sphinx.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="640" height="181" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/IMG_0549_2_Sphinx.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_0549_2_Sphinx.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Christy Collins, photographer</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">,<br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">The beginners Do the above pose in half. It is called Half Cobra Pose, as sown in here. You can start doing many yoga postures at home. However, it would be better to enrol in a yoga school where trained teachers provide guidance. The experienced yoga trainers could help you know the technique of doing various difficult postures.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>There are certain poses which can be done in the presence of a trained teacher only. To make your experience of doing yoga poses more comfortable and pleasant, you should have some yoga accessories. A fine yoga mat, a small cushion, and a comfortable yoga suit would be enough for the beginners.</span><span> </span></span></span></span></p></span><h4><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maha Bhujangasana</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></h4><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Maha_bhujangasana.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="226" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Maha_bhujangasana.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maha_bhujangasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is another variation of this posture. For doing this pose, you are to be in the Half Cobra Pose as shown above. </span></span></span><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After that, you are required to twist your both the legs. Bend your legs inward. Make sure that there is no pain in any limb. </span></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you feel comfortable doing this, try to get your foot soles touching your head at the backside. Then you will be in a pose shown here. </span></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Once you have practised for say two weeks or for a month, you will find that there is something like the increased strength in the upper back and the back-sides of your legs. It also experienced that, as the cobra pose stretches the muscles of the abdomen, too, it helps in digestion, too. It is because the abdomen muscles are stretched and contracted while we are doing the Cobra Pose.</span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"></span></p><p></p></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p></p></span></div></span></span></span><p></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-71277612738188433852009-08-27T23:55:00.002+05:302021-02-12T00:24:13.742+05:30YOGA POSTURES: How To Do Corpse Pose, Shavasana<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Shavasana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="600" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Shavasana.jpg" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><br /> -SHAVASANA <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shavasana.jpg">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="color: black;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span><br /></span></span></span></span><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">The activities of mind keep us away from concentrating on the body. The functions of our body remain unnoticed. For most of the time, we are in a state of ignorance about our body. Do we notice at any time of the day that where our head is or where our legs are? Perhaps not. The Corpse Pose, Savasana, would revert us to the very feel of our body. It would virtually throw us on our body.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><b>How to Do Corpse Pose, the Shavasana</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Get your yoga met fully unfolded and then lie just flat on your back. Legs would be straight and together but not touching each other. The position of the arms would be also straight with palms facing the ceiling. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Do relax all the facial muscles and start taking breaths slowly and deeply. The closed eyes help in concentrating on the posture.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Relaxation is the prime goal of Savasana. So start relaxing your body. When we pay attention to any of our limb, that limb feels some rest. So start relaxing from the head area and then travel through the whole body downward.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">·</span></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Once you are aware of the whole of your body, you would be in Corpse Pose in full. Remaining in this posture for five to ten minutes would be better. You can prolong this posture as long as you wish, as this asanas would never give your fatigue.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Cautions</span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">: </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">In the initial period, you would find to get your body so relaxed in whole. But by practising this pose for one week or so, it would be easier to get all the limbs in relaxed mode. Another difficulty the beginners would find is the sleepiness. In fact there is nothing wrong into sleep if you do this posture for getting a good sleep. If you want to remain awake and avoid the sleepiness, your can make the pace of your breathing a little faster. I would prevent you from slipping in to the sleep.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Benefits</span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">: </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">This posture gifts us with multiple benefits of relaxing our whole body and keeping our mind alert. Corpse Pose is practised at the beginning and end of every yoga session. This makes you energetic to enter the yoga session in the beginning. At the end of the session, Savasana would get your away from all the fatigue that your doing of other postures might have generated. </span></span></span></span></span></p></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-14904719049002740012009-08-22T15:11:00.003+05:302021-02-12T00:24:48.955+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Rája Sirshasana, Head Stand Posture<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_shirshasana.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja shirshasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Raja_shirshasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 429px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 120px;" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do the different postures of Yoga, Doing Various Yoga Asanas.</span></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These postures are named as the Inverted postures. It is because while doing this poses we have to render the body in inverted </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">means</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> in reverse of the natural order. Our head remains up and the feet on the floor. whereas in these poses, we are to keep our feet upward and the head on the floor. In one of its variation, the head is placed touching on the floor with the feet, too, touching the floor. One can start doing this pose which is called Raj Grivasana, the headstand pose-inverted position.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: arial; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; color: black; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Rája Sírshásana </b>- Inverted position, Head Stand Posture</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Image Courtesy Man By Marcocarvalho [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_shirshasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">)</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As in this poses, the head remains downward, hence the flow of the blood towards out head and mind </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">increases considerably. This helps in making our memory sharp. Everyone can do this pose, but in the initial period, one should take guidance from a trained yoga instructor. Once you are accustomed to doing headstand Pose, you would not need any help in future. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><h2>Rája Grivásana</h2></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_grivasana.jpg" title="By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Raja grivasana" border="'0'" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Raja_grivasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 226px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" /></a></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Rája Grivásana - Inverted position preparation, Head Stand Posture <span class="Apple-style-span">(Image Courtesy By Marcocarvalho [<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC-BY-3.0</a>], <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_grivasana.jpg">from Wikimedia Commons</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; color: black; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For the beginner practitioner, it would be easy to keep the feet touching the floor. This would also give you many benefits of doing the Grivasana. The woman who is pregnant should avoid doing this pose during her pregnancy. However, after taking proper advice from her Yoga Teacher, she can do it with due care.</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span></div></span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Raja_grivasana.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-6433300661447460512009-08-18T11:52:00.011+05:302021-02-12T00:25:01.271+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Mayurasana, Peocock Pose<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Meaning of 'Mayura', a</span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sanskrit word, is ‘Peacock’. While doing this asana, our body looks like a ‘ Peacock’. Thus it is named from the appearance of the posture.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Peacock_pose.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="601" height="246" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Peacock_pose.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peacock_pose.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Drchirag patel</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span><div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mayurasana-Peacock Pose</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">THEME: Learn doing Yoga Exercises, How to do Different Postures of Yoga. Learn Yoga Asanas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><h2>HOW TO DO MAYURASANA</h2></span></span></span></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></b></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">As it is one of the difficult types of asanas, you should have prior knowledge about other easy asanas. You can sit in Vajrasana and start doing Mayurasana. </span></span></span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is a difficult type of postures. so practice it slowly and avoid remaining for more time in this posture in the beginning. </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Lie down flat on the floor, on your abdomen.</span></li><li><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Then try raising your whole body with th</span>e support of your palms, which would be firmly grounded on the floor with fingers pointing backwards.</span></li></ol></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
</span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Another method: </span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sitting on your upper scales, put your knees touching the floor.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Then stretch out the fingers of hands and firmly place the palms on the floor or the Yoga net.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Ensure that your elbows remain on both the sides of your navel. </span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now start stretching both legs together and come a little bit forward, but slowly and cautiously, After that try raising your upper part of the body.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Once the upper part of the body is raised up, straighten both of your legs together like one stick.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now your posture would be as shown in the image.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">To get released from the asana is not so difficult; you can devise your own easy method that does not hurt your body.</span></span></span></li></ul></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="-webkit-sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">BENEFITS OF MAYURASANA</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span">The Mayrasana (Peacock Posture) provides exercise to all of the parts of the body.</span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span">It helps in toning up of some of the internal organs like liver, kidney and pancreas</span></li></ul><ul><li>Those who have stomach disorder would be benefitted by doing this asana.</li></ul></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span">Mayurasan keeps the whole body in a balanced and concentrated position.</span></li></ul><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><b>TYPES OF YOGASANA</b></span></div></span></span></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Siddhasana_mulher.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 230px; margin: 0px auto 1px; width: 198px;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siddhasana_mulher.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span face="-webkit-sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Siddhasana_mulher.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: #000066; text-align: left;"><span></span></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you search the web for the yoga and how to do yoga postures you would find numerous links. We are not to add here one of the links. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here it is tried to give a short index of the articles which would let the yoga seekers know the fundamentals of yoga and how the different types of yoga poses are done. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">These articles are written in the most possible simple manner so it can help those who want to know about yoga in nutshell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 24px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></p><h2 style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span">YOGA SYSTEMS</span><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></h2><div style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>Here are some yoga systems which are important. However, there are very slight differences in these systems. Practising of all the systems would benefit the practitioners of yoga.</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><b style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="color: black;"><b style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">ASHTANGA YOGA: Various Schools Teaching yoga</span></span></b></div><p style="color: #000066;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4godhapitham_(l%E2%80%98iguane).JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="By Joseph RENGER [GFDL(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="4godhapitham (l‘iguane)" border="'0'" height="297" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/4godhapitham_%28l%E2%80%98iguane%29.JPG/240px-4godhapitham_%28l%E2%80%98iguane%29.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 223px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; width: 240px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #000066; float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4godhapitham_(l%E2%80%98iguane).JPG" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy; text-align: justify;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">This system of yoga asanas is devised by Patanjali. It is believed to be as old as 5000 years. Perhaps the most beneficial of all other yoga systems, ashtanga yoga comprises the eightfold path for those who want to practice it. </span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><b style="color: black; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"> Sun Salutation Pose (Suryanamaskar)</span></b></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">These eight aspects through which a yogi, a desirous person to walk on the path of yoga, travels is like this: Yama, Niyama, Asana, (yoga postures), Pranayama (breathing technique), Pratyahara (withdrawal of senses), Dharana, Dhyan (meditation), and Samadhi (salvation).</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Yoga postures are various positions of our body. But these postures or Asanas are not only the position given to the body. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span>In addition to providing good exercise to our body, yoga postures provide us with opportunities to create or it is an attempt synthesizing our mind and body. It is just like a fusion of the human mind and physical strength.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">The regular practice of doing yoga postures could render us with more awareness of the exact relationship between our mind and body. After doing these exercises for a period, one might start feeling that his or her body moves with balance and grace, her or his mind functions with mental and physical balance. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Thus the yoga asanas are not merely a collection of exercises or the sets of physical activities, but it is the system that is developed and time to time refined over the ages.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Yoga Schools:</span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">There are certain schools of teaching yoga and yoga asana. These schools are not the watertight compartments teaching different yoga postures, but they use different techniques, and their goal is common. These schools are not different from each other in many respects, and they are or have been recognised as part of one another at different times, too.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">If ware to look at a few yoga schools teaching the yoga in various ways, the first we would remember would be Ashtanga Yoga. </span></span></span></span></span></p></span><p style="color: black; text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">HATHA YOGA: Postures With Meditation and Pranayama</span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The system known as Hatha yoga combines physical postures, along with upholding the necessity of moral attitudes that a human being should have. <span></span>It is a holistic approach helping to reduce our mental stress. The practise of these yoga postures increases the overall well-being of our body and mind.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b style="color: #000066;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/yoga-awakening-of-kundalini-female.html">KUNDALINI: Awakening of Chakras and Cosmic Energy</a></b></p></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><h2 id="containerPhotoTitle" style="color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The vital energy running through a coil that starts from our genital area and ends at the head is known as Kundalini. The great thinkers and yoga teachers say that it is psycho energy. The yoga master tells us that is a spiritual one. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><h2 id="containerPhotoTitle" style="color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><h2 id="containerPhotoTitle" style="color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In short, Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual power.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/08/yoga-postures-yogic-food-yoga-and-your.html">YOGA FOOD: Diet with Curative Characteristics</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Our food is very much important in shaping the quality of our thoughts. Yoga system strongly believes and advocates that our mental development and spiritual uplift is linked with the food we consume. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #080861; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #080861; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">India is the birthplace of many systems of yoga and yoga postures. Here you would find a yoga training school and a pool of trained yoga teachers. </span></span></span></div></div><p style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></p></div></div></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-75566513298155858372009-08-17T23:42:00.024+05:302021-02-12T00:25:16.038+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Natarajasana, Lord Nataraja Pose<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Yoga-21.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="274" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Yoga-21.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoga-21.png">www.sridevinrithyalaya.org</a>, <br /><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/deed.en">CC BY 2.5 IN</a>, via <br />Wikimedia Commons<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><p class="main2" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #000066; font-weight: 400;">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. But it can be done properly after doing initial practice</span></span></div><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> The Dance Pose</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Nataraj Dance is done before the statues of the deities. The dancers, in individually or in the group, dance before Lord Shiva or other God or Goddess.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In many south Indian Temples, such dances are a regular feature. Tourists from all over the world, especially from European countries and the USA come to see the dance performance before the deities. If you come to India, do not forget to visit a south Indian temple. It may happen that you will be able to see the dance of the Indian dancers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">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. But it can be done properly after doing initial practice.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 3px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga is one of the most useful and widely practised sets of physical exercises. These postures provide extreme stretches to the human body. It has been originated in </span></span></span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">India</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">. Doing yoga postures is famous for its spiritual touch. It 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 for remaining physically healthy. Some of them practice the postures for spiritual reasons.</span></span></span></span></div> <p style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How to Do Dance Pose</span></span></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"></p></span></span><ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">At the start of many postures, it is advisable to stand straight. That posture is called Tadasana. Doing Dance Pose, do stand straight in beginning.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Take hold of your right foot with your right hand from the backside. Ensure that the weight of the whole body is transferred on the left foot and the left leg is in a straight position.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">After taking right foot in your right paw firmly, you should try it stretching upward until it reaches the level of your head.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></b></span></li></span></span><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Finally, stretch your left-hand straight parallel to the floor. Here the Dance pose is complete.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><ul style="display: inline;"><li style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">However, these poses are done with certain alterations in the pose, too. One can take the hold of the right foot with both the hands and drag it above the level of the head.</span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></b></span></li></ul></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p></span></b></span></span></span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose can be repeated by raising another foot to the level of the head. Bottom of the foot would be touching head in this case, as the head would be tilted backwards. </span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do the different postures of Yoga, Doing Various Yoga Asanas.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Forward Bending Posture</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">.</span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066;">The very purpose of doing Yoga Posture is to create energy in our body. After creating new energy, there comes the question of balancing that energy. </span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The regular practitioner of Yogasana would think that in what sequence these postures are to be done.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here the important concept is how to maintain the balance of the energy created. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In every asana or posture, there is a visible process in which our spine and the body moves either in one or another direction, either in forwarding or backward direction. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If one part twists right, eventually one needs to twist left. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Again, a process of maintaining balanced energy and space throughout is vital. There are some asanas, which contains countering effects, balancing the flow of energy.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="188" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_sarvangasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br /></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via<br />Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Look at the following example: Shoulder Stand Pose, the <b>Raj </b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Sarvangasana,</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> is followed by Fish Pose, the Matyasana. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It counterbalances the effects of the first posture. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We can see many examples of asanas, which are to be followed by other counterbalancing asanas. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For the detail, we have to ask the trainer.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There are some defined set of postures. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These sets are like a garland of a flower, coming one after another. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There were several ancients schools, too, who had devised these Yoga Postures in their counterbalancing sequence. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Some postures are targeted to benefit certain parts of our body, like the muscles, the joints, and the deposited fat. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">So all the postures in that series would be providing more and more exercises to a particular limb for a period. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">And thereafter there would come the counterbalancing postures.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is advisable to ask the trainer or an experienced person to know about the sequence of the postures. </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"></span></p><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It depends, and varies too, on the type of asanas a person practices.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Benefits of Doing Dance Pose</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">As it is a posture balancing the whole body on one foot, it generates a feel of balance in the mind of the person doing it. This makes a difference in the life and thinking of the person who practices it regularly.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It stretches all the muscles of Shoulders, thighs and calves.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The knees, ankles and hips get adequate exercise. So it would be beneficial in curing the pain in hip joints, too.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The area of the chest and abdomen is fully stretched along with the spine. In all the Dance Pose provide adequate exercise to the whole body. </span></span></li></ul><p></p></span></span><p></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><h2><b style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2b00fe;">Physical Benefits of Doing Yoga Postures</span></span></span></span></b></h2></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga poses help in building up and maintaining general fitness of your body. It channelizes our existing energy in the most natural way; it sets in motion the energy that is lying idle. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Regular practising of yoga poses would dramatically improve the flexibility of your muscles. Each asana is devised to generate a certain level of stretch to a specific muscle or limb. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga poses would make your body looking shapely and fit. People would start noticing positive change in your shape and physical fitness.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Mental Benefits of Doing Yoga Postures</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga postures help to remove toxins from our body. In turn, it helps reducing mental stress and calming down the level of anxiety. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These processes ultimately increase our capability to concentrate and focus on our routine works.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Remedial Benefits of Doing Yoga Postures</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">These postures are formulated to keep our body in the general status of health. However it helps in curing certain irregularities caused in functioning of our body of restoring the natural balance. Thus it has curative value, too.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The most important restorative benefit we would get from yoga posture is the reduction of the level of fat in our body. In present era where people do less physical work, most of us face the problem of obesity. Yoga exercises help us burning the extra fat we pile up on our belly, thighs and buttocks.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While we do any asana, the flow of blood in our body increases giving a work out to our cardiovascular system. It tones up every limb, especially the parts that hardly get proper exercise during our routine life. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Many yoga postures are devised to help to increase the flow of blood in the head. This helps in improving our memory power.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Spiritual Aspect of Doing Yoga Postures</span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yoga is not only a set of rules describing only physical exercises and mental peace. Asana is one of the eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga, which is a system to make us spiritually enlightened. If we practice yoga therapies, along with other activities attached to Ashtanga Yoga, it would make us feel the bliss. Bliss is the state of our mind that we all are entitled to enjoy. Yoga system helps us being capable to experience the bliss, the ultimate pleasure a human being can go through.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-14598720605767435972009-08-15T15:37:00.022+05:302021-02-12T00:25:27.389+05:30YOGA POSTURES : Vrischika Asana, Scorpion Pose<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Ardha_vrishkasana.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="168" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Ardha_vrishkasana.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardha_vrishkasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Marcocarvalho</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br /></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do different yoga postures Learn Doing Yoga and </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Meditation</span></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Vrischika, a</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sanskrit word, means ‘scorpion’. While doing this asana, the postures of our body look like a scorpion. Thus it is named so.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"></span></span></b></span></p><b><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How to do The Scorpion Pose</span></h2></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18px;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While doing this asana, you are to kneel. Then let your body be in a forward-leaning posture. </span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Simply put your forearms and elbows just on the floor, in a flat position. </span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Ensure that the palms are facing the floor. Keep the distance between arms as per the size of your shoulder.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thereafter get you head a bit forward, keeping it lifted in a high position. Then slowly try raising both the buttocks. </span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Do as per the strength of your body. Then you get your feet on the bottom of your toes. Hold it for a while.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now take the breath inside and try to swing both the legs upwards. To get your body straightened in the upward position you can wait. Meanwhile, keep your body in balance.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Now start bending your knees, and drop the legs in the direction of your head. You are not to hurry at any stage. If you feel exhausted or uncomfortable, you can take some rest.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When the bottoms of your feet (the soles) are over the head, your posture would look like a scorpion. The</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Vrischika-asana (Scorpion Pose) is complete here. You can hold this pose for ten to twenty seconds.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For restoring the normal position, the first one, you are to do all the actions in their reverse order. </span></span></span></li></ul></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Ardha_vrishkasana.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Ardha_vrishkasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 330px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; width: 150px;" width="91" /></span></a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">BENEFITS OF DOING VRISHCHIKASANA</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">: </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">All the asanas have their general benefits. They help in increasing the health and vitality of the human body. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If we cannot do this posture in full, we can do it in half. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is called the Ardha Vrishchikasana or Half Scorpion Posture. The Vrishchikasana</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">has its peculiar benefits, too. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here are some of the benefits of both of these yoga postures. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Obviously, it makes the muscles of hands and arms stronger, as the entire weight of the body is to be balanced on hands. It is needless to say that your palms and the wrists get more strength by regular practice.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As your body in this posture gives much work to the abdominal muscles, the disorders of the abdomen would be eliminated gradually. It helps in keeping your spine flexible and more elastic. It would make your body looking shapelier.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Scorpion pose involves the strength of almost all the muscles of your body; thus if you practice it regularly you would find yourself more energetic. </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yoga and Diet</span><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">When we are practising Yoga Asanas regularly, we have decided to have all the benefits available by practising the same. diet comes the first. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The intake of the food should be devised in such a way that it supplements the benefits of yoga exercises. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The composition of diet should be of a </span><span class="Apple-style-span">balanced diet</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> and the quality vegetarian, as yoga denies any kind of violence. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;">The food arrived through the process of killing another soul on the earth could not help our wellness, that is what yoga believes. So no meat and fishes.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><h2>HOW TO DO NAVASANA, BOAT POSE</h2></span></span></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">THEME: Learn doing Yoga Exercises, How to do Different Postures of Yoga. Learn about Yoga Asanas. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Navasana.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="800" height="257" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Navasana.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Navasana, Boat Posture<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre;">
</span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Meaning of 'Nava', a </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sanskrit word, is ‘boat’. While doing this asana, the body looks like a ‘ Boat’. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thus it is named so; see the image. Navasana, 'the boat pose' helps in increasing the abdominal strength and general flexibility of the muscles involved in doing it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></div></span></span><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is one of the easy types of asanas. You would hardly find any difficulty in doing it. First of all get yourself in a sitting position, comfortably.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now stretch the legs forward.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then try lifting both the legs upward and try making a ‘V’ shape.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The torso would naturally tilt in the backside. You just keep your hands stretched straight.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This would create a posture of ‘Navasana’, the Boat Pose, as shown in the image.</span></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></li></ul><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">B</span><span class="Apple-style-span">ENEFITS OF </span><span class="Apple-style-span">D</span><span class="Apple-style-span">OING </span><span class="Apple-style-span">B</span><span class="Apple-style-span">OAT </span><span class="Apple-style-span">P</span><span class="Apple-style-span">OSE</span></span></b></span></div><div><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As this pose gives a full twist to our abdomen, it strengthens the muscles there.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Navasana helps digestion by stimulating the stomach and the muscles around it.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Boat pose gives a twist to the spinal cord and hip joints. it provides adequate exercise to these muscles, too.</span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: #000066; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Yoga Mat</span></b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: large;">: </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To have a mat is important while doing the yoga postures. The quality of the mat is suited to the pose, meaning it should be smooth but not very soft. If it is very soft some of the poses may cause injury, like standing on one foot. The yoga mat is available in departmental stores or malls in various shapes and sizes. It would be better to have a mat longer than your height.</span></li></ul></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Yoga Clothes and Pants</span></b>: </span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Boat pose, and many other poses like this one, can be done with pants and shirts on. But the clothes should be selected keeping the level of sweat the posture is going to generate. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If it is summer, there would be more seat while doing these postures. so the clothes made from pure cotton would be best suited to absorb the sweat.</span></div></div><p style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"></p> </div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p> </div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378033739753961618.post-37625345517067366562009-08-15T14:22:00.009+05:302021-02-12T00:25:40.226+05:30YOGA POSTURES: Surya Namaskar, Kundalini Yoga<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG/745px-7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG/745px-7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 250px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 320px;" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG/745px-7urdhva_mukha_shvanasana.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;">Theme: Learn Doing Yoga Exercises, How to do the different postures of Yoga, Doing Various Yoga Asanas.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Surya Namaskar</b> (Urdhva Mukha Savasana - the last posture of Sun Salutation)</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;">This posture is known as a comprehensive pose. During doing this asana, Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation Pose, we are doing several poses. The poses that we do while doing this asana are, in sequence: Tadasana, Urdhva Hastasana, Utanasana (or Flat Back Pose), Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Savasana), Plank Pose, Chaturanga Dandasana (Asthank Namaskar), <a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/easy-yoga-postures-cobra-pose.html">Cobra Pose</a> (<a href="http://yoga-posture.blogspot.com/2009/10/easy-yoga-postures-cobra-pose.html">Bhujangasana</a>), and Upward-Facing Dog (Urdhva Savasana). While coming back from this pose, we do all the poses in reverse sequence.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here it is demonstrated, how to do the Suryanamastkar Assna, or the Sun Salutation Pose, Step by Step.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
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</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ado-muka-shvanasana.jpg" style="color: #000066; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="By Joseph RENGER [GFDL(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], from Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Ado-muka-shvanasana" border="'0'" height="231" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Ado-muka-shvanasana.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 173px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 10px; text-align: justify; width: 240px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ado-muka-shvanasana.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Joseph RENGER</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">One of the poses we do while doing Suryanamaskar Asana[sun salutation pose] is called Downward Dog Posture, Adho Mukh Swanasana.</span><span style="color: #000066; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large;"> Downward Dog Posture, </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-size: large;">The word Adho means downward and Mukh means the face. Thus literally the meaning of Adho Mukh would be downward face. This posture is called Downward Dog Posture or Down Dog pose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You can repeat this posture as many times as you wish. But ensure that it should not result in fatigue or overstretching of any muscle.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">How to Do Downward Dog Posture</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Sit in a positing where your knees are together and your buttocks are touching your hills. Keep the spine and head in a straight position. You can sit in the posture called Thunderbolt (Vajrasana)</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Arrange your hands as far as possible from your knees. Put the palms facing downward on your yoga mat, keeping your fingers wide.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Come on to your knees and then lift the knees from the floor. Stretch your tailbone towards the ceiling.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Put your paws flat on the floor or yoga mat. At this moment your head should feel free and resting.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">Ensure that your paws are kept as wide as your hips and the palms are as wide as your shoulders.</span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Benefits of Doing </span></b></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Dog Posture</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In general, the act of doing yoga postures is an exercise in stretching muscles and to increase the circulation of blood in specific parts of our body. Here are some of the benefits of doing </span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Dog Posture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">When we are in this pose, our heart remains at rest. The flow of blood becomes regular. This is the situation wherein our heart gets some relief. Doing Downward Facing Dog pose would help in providing rest to our heart.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This pose stretches the muscles, which are in </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">on either side of the back of the knees. It makes the tendon or sinews of knees working.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">This posture would create a feeling of awareness. A person would feel stronger after doing the same.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">As all the yoga postures would make our limbs more flexible, Down Dog pose helps to keep our body fresh and all the parts flexible. The hands, arms and legs would be actively involved in doing it.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;">If we look at the curative side of this posture, a person doing it regularly might get some relief in headache and back pain.</span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you feel pain in any muscle, while doing this pose, feel free to make yourself at ease. If your back is paining or hamstring is feeling uneasiness, keep your knees a little bit inside. It would ease the pain and pressure. </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></span></p><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;">Caution:</span></b> Pregnant women should do this posture after taking proper instructions from a trained teacher.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What is Kundalini Yoga</span></b></span></p></span></span></span></span><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is believed that the latent power of the human body is in the form of a coil. This coil has one end in the base of our body at the bottom below the genital organ. Another end is in the head. The vital energy running through this coil is known as Kundalini. The great thinkers are divided into the very characteristics of the Kundalini. Some say that it is psycho energy. Others claim that it is spiritual. We may take it as psycho-spiritual power.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/DiagrammaChakraKundalini.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="310" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/DiagrammaChakraKundalini.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DiagrammaChakraKundalini.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Silvanasono</a><span style="text-align: left;">, Public domain,<br />via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #333399; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333399; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Rising </span><span style="color: #333399; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Kundalini</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><div id="photoMetaData" style="color: #000066;"><div id="containerMetaLeft"><div id="containerPhotoTags"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mediaTags" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 1px;"><div id="listCurrentTags"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="tagListContainer"></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b></span></div></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b></b><b></b><b></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Kundalini Yoga</span></span></span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">R</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">eferred to as the ‘Yoga of Awareness’ tries to establish proper communication between our mind and body. It takes the help of Meditation techniques and moderation of breathing, Pranayama. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">A system involving yoga postures and meditation was devised by Patanjali. He taught his followers the set of rules which help in awakening of the spiritual energy.</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #000066; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Kundalini, a Female Snake</span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is believed that Kundalini can be awakened. Idle energy can be activated. In ancient </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span">, followers of the yoga system have devised certain techniques through it can be awakened. Being one type of yoga, the set of these exercises of Kundalini Yoga seems similar to other yoga exercises. But it is not merely a physical exercise. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If we go by some other definitions of Kundalini, we would know that the starting point of the coil known as the female snake is at the end of our spinal cord. This energy is resting or is inactive. We can awaken this energy through spiritual practices and yoga.</span></span></span></div></b></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-size: medium;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Chakras</span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">When it starts rising, the disciple would feel the flow of energy going upward. Ultimate station of Kundalini is believed to be the head. While awakening in stages, this energy stops at certain points. These points are named as Chakras.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">These Chakras are like the junctions where the fast train of rising Kundalini would rest. Activation of seven successive Chakras would make a yogi wiser and more settled in self. It is the purest form of the spiritual journey.</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span><b></b></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Awakening of Kundalini</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/32_Kundalini_shakti-vardhak.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="322" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/32_Kundalini_shakti-vardhak.jpg" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32_Kundalini_shakti-vardhak.jpg" style="text-align: left;">Белик Мария Александровна</a><span style="text-align: left;">, <br /></span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 3.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">,<br />via Wikimedia Commons</span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x132/serenity_yogini/?action=view&current=RisingKundaliniBlueSmallLetters.gif" target="_blank"></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The awakening of this latent energy would make us experiencing the infiniteness of the universe. It is true that the concept of Kundalini and subsequent yoga techniques to awaken it have been invented and devised by those yogis who followed the Hindu religion. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;">But the concept of Kundalini has nothing to do with any religion or sect. It is a pure science of knowing about the flow of energy. While learning about it, a disciple comes to know about many secrets of the human body.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">New Age Concept about Kundalini:</span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000066;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">With growing awareness about the importance of Kundalini, western psychologists and thinkers have started taking interest in the subject. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #000066; line-height: 18px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span">They believe that Kundalini Yoga or any other endeavour to experience the presence of Kundalini is an effort to build a bridge of communication between our physical body and the subtle body. </span></span></span></span></div></span></span><p></p></div>NAVAL LANGAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954455340860119085noreply@blogger.com0