YOGA ASANA: YOGA POSTURES : Vrischika Asana, Scorpion Pose

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Vrischika, a Sanskrit word, means ‘scorpion’. While doing this asana, the postures of our body look like a scorpion. Thus it is named so.

How to do The Scorpion Pose

While doing this asana, you are to kneel. Then let your body be in a forward-leaning posture.

Simply put your forearms and elbows just on the floor, in a flat position.

Ensure that the palms are facing the floor. Keep the distance between arms as per the size of your shoulder.

Thereafter get you head a bit forward, keeping it lifted in a high position. Then slowly try raising both the buttocks.

Do as per the strength of your body. Then you get your feet on the bottom of your toes. Hold it for a while.

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.

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.

When the bottoms of your feet (the soles) are over the head, your posture would look like a scorpion. The Vrischika-asana (Scorpion Pose) is complete here. You can hold this pose for ten to twenty seconds.

For restoring the normal position, the first one, you are to do all the actions in their reverse order.

BENEFITS OF DOING VRISHCHIKASANA:

All the asanas have their general benefits. They help in increasing the health and vitality of the human body.

If we cannot do this posture in full, we can do it in half.

It is called the Ardha Vrishchikasana or Half Scorpion Posture. The Vrishchikasana has its peculiar benefits, too.

Here are some of the benefits of both of these yoga postures.

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.

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.

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.

Yoga and Diet:

When we are practising Yoga Asanas regularly, we have decided to have all the benefits available by practising the same. diet comes the first.

The intake of the food should be devised in such a way that it supplements the benefits of yoga exercises.

The composition of diet should be of a balanced diet and the quality vegetarian, as yoga denies any kind of violence.

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.

HOW TO DO NAVASANA, BOAT POSE

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Navasana, Boat Posture

Meaning of 'Nava', a Sanskrit word, is ‘boat’. While doing this asana, the body looks like a ‘ Boat’.

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.

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.

Now stretch the legs forward.

Then try lifting both the legs upward and try making a ‘V’ shape.

The torso would naturally tilt in the backside. You just keep your hands stretched straight.

This would create a posture of ‘Navasana’, the Boat Pose, as shown in the image.

BENEFITS OF DOING BOAT POSE

As this pose gives a full twist to our abdomen, it strengthens the muscles there.

Navasana helps digestion by stimulating the stomach and the muscles around it.

Boat pose gives a twist to the spinal cord and hip joints. it provides adequate exercise to these muscles, too.

Yoga Mat:
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.

Yoga Clothes and Pants:

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.

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.