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Asana Explorations
Posted By: admin on December 29, 2009 in Open Reflections/Miscellaneous topics - Comments: 8 Comments »
Asana Explorations:
This page explores a wide variety of Yoga Asanas, along with a short list of reasons to practice them, and appropriate cautions to heed. Use care when discovering asana. Don’t use unnecessary force in any position, and always listen to the intelligence of your body. Have fun and take care.
Asana: Adho Mukha Svanasana: Downward facing dog
Benefits
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression
- Energizes the body
- Stretches the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands
- Strengthens the arms and legs
- Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
- Relieves menstrual discomfort when done with head supported
- Helps prevent osteoporosis
- Improves digestion
- Relieves headache, insomnia, back pain, and fatigue
- Therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet, sciatica, sinusitis
Cautions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Diarrhea
- Pregnancy: Do not do this pose late-term.
- High blood pressure or headache: Support your head on a bolster or block, ears level between the arms.
Asana: Padmasana, Lotus pose
Benefits:
- Calms the brain
- Stimulates the pelvis, spine, abdomen, and bladder
- Stretches the ankles and knees
- Eases menstrual discomfort and sciatica
- Consistent practice of this pose until late into pregnancy is said to help ease childbirth.
- Traditional texts say that Padmasana destroys all disease and awakens kundalini.
Cautions:
- Ankle injury
- Knee injury
- Tension in the hip sockets
- Padmasana is considered to be an intermediate to advanced pose. Do not perform this pose without sufficient prior experience or unless you have the supervision of an experienced teacher.
Asana: Supta Padangusthasana, reclining big toe pose
Benefits:
- Stretches hips, thighs, hamstrings, groins, and calves
- Stimulates the prostate gland
- Improves digestion
- Relieves backache, sciatica, and menstrual discomfort
- Therapeutic for high blood pressure, flat feet, and infertility
- Strengthens the knees
Cautions:
- Diarrhea
- High blood pressure: Raise your head and neck on a folded blanket.
- Headache
Asana: Adho Mukha Vrksasana, Handstand
Benefits
- Strengthens the shoulders, arms, and wrists
- Stretches the belly
- Improves sense of balance
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression
Cautions
- Headache
- Heart condition
- High blood pressure
- Menstruation
Asana: Bharadvaja’s Twist, easy seated twist
- Stretches the spine, shoulders, and hips
- Massages the abdominal organs
- Relieves lower backache, neck pain, and sciatica
- Helps relieve stress
- Improves digestion
- Especially good in the second trimester of pregnancy for strengthening the lower back
- Therapeutic for carpal tunnel syndrome
Cautions
- Headache
- High blood pressure
- Insomnia
- Low blood pressure
- Menstruation
- diarrhea
Asana: Gomukhasana, Cow Face Pose
Benefits:
- Stretches the ankles, hips and thighs, shoulders, armpits and triceps, and chest
Cautions
- Serious neck or shoulder problems
Asana: Agnistambhasana, Fire log Pose
Benefits
- Stretches the hip and groins
Cautions
- Low back injury
- Knee injury
Asana: Ardha Matsyendrasana, Half Lord of the Fishes Pose
Benefits:
- Stimulates liver and kidneys
- Stretches the shoulders, hips, and neck
- Energizes the spine
- Stimulates the digestive fire in the belly
- Relieves menstrual discomfort, fatigue, sciatica, and backache
- therepeutic for asthma and infertility
Cautions
- Back or spine injury: Perform this pose only with the supervision of an experienced teacher.
Asana: Krouchasana (Heron Pose)
Benefits:
- stretches the hamstrings
- Stimulates the abdominal organs and heart
Cautions:
- Menstruation
- if you have any serious knee or ankle problems, avoid the Ardha Virasana(the Half Hero Pose; i.e. the bent knee) position unless you have the guidance of an experienced asana instructor(Instead sit with the legs in Janu Sirsasana)
Lion Pose
Benefits
- Relieves tension in the chest and face.
- An often-overlooked benefit of Simhasana is that it stimulates the platysma, a flat, thin, rectangular-shaped muscle on the front of the throat. The platysma, when contracted, pulls down on the corners of the mouth and wrinkles the skin of the neck.
- Simhasana helps keep the platysma firm as we age.
- According to traditional texts, Simhasana destroys disease and facilitates the three major bandhas (Mula, Jalandhara, Uddiyana).
Cautions
If you have a knee injury, always be cautious in flexed-knee sitting positions and, if necessary, sit on a chair to do the pose.
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