YOGA POSTURES: INVERSION POSES

Yoga Postures: Halasana, Plough Pose, Sarva-anga Asana, Whole body Posture, Shirshasana, Head Stand. 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. Yoga Asana can be beneficial to such persons. The teachers and regular practitioners of yoga believe that if we do the postures that would keep our body in inverted position, it would help to increase the flow of blood to the brain. Here are some postures of Yoga that could help to those who face less flow of blood in head.

HALA-ASANA, the Plow Pose : To do this asana, you will have to be in the posture of 'Sarva-anga Asana'.

• First of all lie on your Yoga Net: Keep the back flat on the floor and the palms rested downwards. Start inhaling, slowly. Now start it. Bend both the knees and draw them towards your stomach, and keep exhaling.
• Start inhaling again and put all the pressure on the hands and try lifting your torso from the waist. It would make your spine in an ark shape. [Image courtesy By Joseph RENGER[see page for license], from Wikimedia Commons

SARVA-ANGA ASANA : Thesarvanga-asana benefits our body and mind in several ways. It increases the flow of blood to the upper parts of our body that helps healing many disorders. We can have beneficial effects of the problem in soaring of throat and nasal congestion. It helps in back pain. If you feel uneasy by sleeping much, you would feel relived 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 long run.

Shirshasana : Like all other yoga postures, Shirshasana would benefit us by making the muscles of our body stronger. It would help us to get relief from back pain or pain in leg and thigh muscles. 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.

How To Do Shirshasana : First of all we are to stand straight and relax our body, this posture would require full strength of the body in action. If we are to prolong this posture more than one minute, it would test our physical abilities to withstand the pressure on various muscles of body. After getting properly relaxed, we can position the body in a pose where we would keep it on the base of legs and arms. Ankles should create a triangle like position near head.

Raj Grivasana: This posture is one of the easiest postures. Generaaly this posture is done first while doing Sirsasana. However, This pose, RajaGrivasana is itself an independent pose, known as 'Head Stand Posture'.

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. We could feel rejuvenated experiencing a new perspective of life and health.

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YOGA POSTURES: Forward Bend Poses

Balasana, The Child Pose. Other Forward-Bend Yoga Postures.

The yoga postures render our body in different positions. There is hardly any muscle or limb that is not being activated by one of these asana. Here some postures putting our body in forward bend postures are given. These postures help stretching all the limbs that we might not be stretching while doing our general work. 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. (Image courtesy By http://theholisticcare.com [CC-BY-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons)

How to do Child Pose

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.

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 practiced as one of the relaxing postures like Corpse Pose.

UTTANASANA: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. There are certain postures that would benefit much if these asana done in sequence.

Paschimottanasana : This postures is relatively an easy one. You can feel very much relaxed after doing this asana. It provides good exercise to the muscles of back, legs and the hands. It is advised for weight loss and back pain. This posture would provide enough exercise to the caves, too.

SINHASANA, the Lion Pose: Regular practice of Lion Pose would help to improve the memory power. The mind would function with renewed flow of the energy. While doing this asana, we would find that our respiration become regularizes. Due to the regularized and respiration, you would get improvement if you are suffering from throat-trouble.

ONE FOOT POSE: One would not find it very difficult to do the One Foot Pose. You can try it once and would learn how to do it frequently. This forward-bend posture has all the benefits of yoga in general. But specifically it helps strengthening leg muscles and the back muscles.

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

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YOGA POSTURES FOR HIP JOINTS

Our anatomy is made of bones and the 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 over use of our body parts, certain part gets much imbalanced. This creates pain after a certain period. The pain in hip joints is one of the outcomes of such over use of our body part.

Yoga Postures for Hip Joints

Dwipada Pitham: The yoga postures are devised to give us relief from certain pain. Regular practice of these yoga asana would help rectifying the loss done by our lifestyle. Here are certain yoga postures that could help in easing the pain in hip joints. For maintaining healthy condition of hip joints, certain movements are necessary. These Yoga Postures here would do that job for us. Some of the postures should be done with a trained teacher only.

Cobra Pose: It is experienced that the Cobra Pose, that is known as Bhujangasana is one of the most useful exercises for those who have complaints about lower back aches. The regular practicing of this Yogasana would help decreasing some stiffness in the lower back, even in the initial stage of exercising. Cobra Pose provides strain to the muscles in chest area, so it enlarges the chest and strengthens arms.

PAVANMUKTASANA: This is one of the easy types of asanas. You would hardly find any difficulty in doing it. Wind releasing posture helps in releasing the gas from intestines.

• First lie down on the floor or the Yoga net, with legs kept straight and in forwards position.
• Taking a deep breath, start bending both the knees. Alternatively you can bring in only one knee, and repeat the same for another.
• Release breath and press the folded legs near to abdomen, as near as you can.

Plow Pose is another posture that could help in curing the hip joints. Those who face acute pain for him joint should avoid doing this; and those who wants to do it. they should do this pose in the presence of a trained teacher only.

Halasana, Plough Posture

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’.

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Red White and Lotus Yoga Position

a little relaxing, originally uploaded by henikeke2.

While it may not be necessary that this woman's fingernails and toenails match her yoga pants, one could argue that it enhances the harmony created by her striking lotus position.

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Female Yoga Outdoors

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As best I can tell this female is practicing yoga outdoors in the Philippines. Great angles created by her body as she arches back to grab her toes.

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YOGA POSTURES: Standing Position

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

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

Nataraja Asana

The meaning of word 'Nataraj' is 'The Lord of Dancing'. Lord Shiva is believed to be the Nataraj. In fact the Natarajanasan is believed to be of difficult type of Yoga Postures. Yoga is one of the most useful and widely practiced exercise. It has been originated in India. 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 practiced all over the world. Some use it as exercises for remain healthy and fit, and the rest for spiritual reasons.

Trikonasan, Triangle Pose: 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 pose (asana) in Hatha yoga system of yoga exercises. This pose is done twice, in sequence. Once it is done by facing the left and another facing right.

Ustrasana, Camel Pose: Whle we do this posture our whole front body is stretches. the front of the body including the chest, abdomen, and quadriceps are stretched to their bearable limit. By doing so regularly for a period, we can improves the flexibility of our spinal cord and the area surrounding the spinal cord. It would those more who are suffering from mild backache. Camel Pose is beneficial in hip disorder, too.

Benefits by doing Standing Yoga Poses

It is necessary to know that the standing position provide us the knowledge about the principles having a proper alignment of our body. Here are some of the Yoga Asanas, the postures, which can be termed as Yoga Postures in Standing Positions. These postures would affect different systems of 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.

Wearing The Yoga Clothes

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

Yoga at the Beach

For women the outfits would be mainly same as the men. But wearing the shorts would be better, as it would help you knowing about how your legs and feet align during the yoga exercise. To cover the breasts fully is essential; for that women can use short bra made from cotton. The women yoga practitioners desiring to enjoy freedom of movement wear bikini while doing yoga postures. It is comfortable especially when you do yoga in open or at beach. (Image Yoga at the Beach Courtesy By karpidis (originally posted to Flickr as Yoga at the beach)[see page for license], from Wikimedia Commons) (Image Natarajasana, The Dance Pose courtesy By Sri Devi Nrithyalaya (http://www.sridevinrithyalaya.org/gallery2.html) [GFDL 1.2], from Wikimedia Commons )

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YOGA POSTURES: Sitting Position

Sitting Alignment in Yoga : 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 Astang Yoga, too. Most of the postures are practiced to achieve better physical and mental health, as these yoga postures have deep impact on our body, mind and soul.

Padmasana, Lotus Pose

The meaning of ‘Padma’, a Sanskrit word, is lotus. While sitting in this posture, the human body looks like a lotus. Thus it is named ‘Padma Asana’. Padmasana is 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 human body takes it natural shape, helping to heal several disorders in the body. It is believed that those who practice Padmasana would get help in awaking Kundalini.

Sitting Yoga Postures

VAJRA ASANA,The Thunderbolt Yoga Posture : It has been noticed that regular practice of this asana increases the secretion from the glands, which are vital for the physical and mental health of a person. Along with other benefits of doing Yogic posture, Vajrasana, the Thunderbolt Yoga Posture helps the digestion process and assists in eliminating the gastric troubles. Those who suffer from the pain in knee would be benefited by doing this posture.

Paschimottanasana :This postures is relatively an easy one. You can feel very much relaxed after doing this asana. It provides good excercise to the muscles of back, legs and the hands. It is advised for weight loss and back pain.

Ardha Matsyendrasana: This asana was devised my a Yogi whose name was Matsyendra. So the Yoga Posture is named after his name. As the Purn Matsyendra is difficult for the beginners, the Half Spinal Twist Posture is devised. It is called the Ardh Matsyendrasana.

These sitting postures help keeping our body in a particular positions for a time. Here are some of the Yoga Asanas, the postures, which can be termed as Yoga Postures in Sitting Positions. These postures would affect different systems in human body like muscular, respiratory, circulation, digestive, excretory, reproductive, endocrine, nervous system.These asanas are to be performed after keeping our body in sitting position: both legs together and stretched, toes erect, spine erect and both hands straight and palms resting on floor. By Marcocarvalho [CC-BY-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons

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