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Showing posts with label Basic Yoga. Show all posts

Basic Yoga - The Bow Pose :Strengthen Your Back

Posted by AJ Wednesday, February 8, 2012 0 comments

This yoga pose expands the chest, mobilizes the entire spinal column, and can be a welcome change to the usual movement of your body. The Bow Pose is a good exercise to improve posture and strengthen the back muscles.

STEP 1: Lie on your stomach, arms on your sides, and palms facing upward.


STEP 2: Bend your knees. Bring your heels near your buttocks.



STEP 3: Reach back with your arms and grasp your ankles. Let your weight rest on your stomach and not on your pelvis.


STEP 4: Raise your knees further by pulling your ankles with your hands. 




Continue breathing regularly and try to increase the stretching in the chest and the backward bend for a relaxed body and mind. If you like you can end this exercise by letting go of your legs without letting them move towards the floor and building up some extra strength by "floating" over your Yoga Mat.

 Have an Ageless Body & a Timeless Mind.

 Thanks,

 AJ

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Basic Yoga : Cobra Pose - Heal Lower Back Pain

Posted by AJ Monday, February 6, 2012 0 comments


The Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana is a great exercise for people with lower back aches. This posture decreases stiffness in the lower back, enlarges the chest, and strengthens the arms and shoulders. This Asana is also good to combat menstrual irregularities, and it helps relieve stress. 

Learn how to perform the Cobra Pose in this section.

STEP 1: Lie on your belly, while your head rests on your lower arms.





STEP 2: Raise your forehead, look upwards and stretch your hands backwards. Let your weight rest on your chest.




STEP 3: The head falls a little backwards towards your back and the backward movement proceeds from the neck and the chin. Move your belly further backward as if someone is pulling your arms. The weight is more and more shifted towards the belly and the lower back does the real work. 


STEP 4: If you cannot raise your chest any further, put your hands and arms next to your chest on the mat without losing the bend. Stretch your arms so that they stand perpendicular on the floor and at the same time turn your arms a little inward. Relax your lower back and bear your weight with your arms.


STEP 5: The buttock muscles remain relaxed during the exercise. Move your chest further upwards with every breathing out. Do this in a relaxed way instead of using force. You can tilt your head back. The shoulders are broad in front and the shoulder blades remain low. 



Build up the exercise in a quiet way. When the lower back is stiff, this exercise may cause the lower back to feel a little painful and uncomfortable. This is normal and will pass away as the stiffness decreases. In spite of the uncomfortable feeling that you may sometimes experience, this exercise is highly recommended for people with a stiff lower back or pain in the lower back.

Have an Ageless Body and a Timeless Mind

Thanks,

AJ

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Basic Yoga : Wind Relieving Pose - Vatayanasana

Posted by AJ Sunday, February 5, 2012 0 comments

In continuation to my earlier posts on Basic Yoga, here I am explaining about the Wind Relieving Pose or Vatayanasana. This Yoga for is very simple and it has a very effective role in purifying your stomach and body at large. Due to irregular food habit and unhealthy life style most of the people suffer from gastric in the intestine and as doctors says if it exist for prolong period it may leads to many severe ailments. In yoga it is considered to free your intestine and stomach from all such gases will purify your body and with regular practice of this asana it will heal your gastric problem permanently.


This wind relieving pose also help you in healing stiffness in your spine. So, for most of the people who are working at office constantly sitting for hours doing this asana after the work is really more then a solution.


How to do it ?


STEP 1: Lie on the Yoga Mat.

STEP 2: Raise your left knee.
STEP 3: Wrap your hands around your left knee.
STEP 4: Raise your head towards your knee. Breathe, release. Repeat with the right leg. You can also do the rocking motion slowly with rhythm. 

Remember that while practicing the Wind Relieving Pose, resist the tendency to raise the lower back or buttocks off the ground and try to keep the leg that is on the mat as straight as possible. 

Aside from releasing unwanted gases from the intestines and stomach, the exercise will also massage the abdominal organs.

Have an Ageless Body and  a Timeless Mind.

Thanks,

Ajay



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