1. Advasana or corpse pose:-
How to do?????
- Lie flat on stomach with legs straight.
- Stretch both your hands forward and place it along the ground, touching both sides of the head.
- Relax all muscles and breathe in a natural and rhythmic manner.
- Remain in this position for 2-5 minutes or as long as you can do.
- It is effective for slipped disk and stiffness of the neck.
- It is good relaxation pose, especially for correction of stooping back.
- It relaxes the soulders.
- It can be used as an resting pose between asanas.
How to do????
- Sit in any comfortable pose on floor. Keep the leg stretched out.
- Bend the left knee and place the left leg in front of you.
- Bend the right knee and place the right leg on the top of your left leg. The two legs will look like two logs of wood piled over one another from the front. The two legs will form a triangle along with the hips.
- Sit straight. Inhale deeply and lengthen the spine. Keep the back and spine straight. Now relax and breathe normally.
- The hands can be placed on the knees or it can assume a prayer position namaskara position with the two palms together.
- This is the final position. Remain for as long as you can maintain.
- There are many variations which use this as the base position. For example, bending forward and placing the hands on the floor is one of such variation used for stretching the hip muscles.
- This pose or Asana stretch the hip and groin muscles.
- It can be good aid for those who want to practice meditative postures like padmasana for long duration. Forward bends after assuming agnistambhasana is used as a preliminary practice to loosen up the hip joints for sitting in lotus posture. The key point while sitting in padmasana is that the knee joint should not be stretched. All the bending and stretching should be on hips. Else you can injure your knee joint. Hence agnistambhasana and it's variations is used for creating the flexible hip joint.
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