Supine Yoga Poses, Lying Face Upward

The yoga poses which are done by keeping your back on the floor of near the floor are called supine poses or the poses 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. Fish Pose, Matsyasana 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. Do try Doing These Supine Yoga PosesBridge Pose: When we do this pose, the pelvic...

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YOGA POSTURE: King Pigeon Pose, Backbend

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana II (one legged king pigeon variation), originally uploaded by Richard-.Theme: Beck-bend Yoga Postures, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana 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 body it involves. 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. This posture involves backbend posture. It helps opening the hip portion of our body. This posture involves the backbend intensely. So for the beginners, it would be advisable to do this...

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YOGA POSTURES: Back-bend Poses

Learn Yoga Posture with ease. How to do Backbeds. Yoga postures render our body into various poses. Some of the yoga asana would render our whole body bending backward. Such postures can be labelled as ‘back bend’ 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 backward is not an easy job. Such postures make our arms and shoulders more powerful. The spine would get proper exercise, too. The waist would get 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 backside. King Pigeon Pose While we do...

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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...

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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],...

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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....

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