~Mariel Hemingway~
Yoga is a form of exercise in which you move your body into numerous simple to perplexing positions in order to become more flexible, to incorporate proper breathing techniques, and to relax and serene your mind. The main purposes of yoga are to promote enlightenment, awareness, self-control and higher consciousness.
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Yoga Sanskrit name: Baddha Konasana
Pronunciation: (BAH-dahcone-AHS-anna)
Level: Beginner
Let’s learn and do the Bound Angle Pose, or Baddha Konasana. It’s a grounding pose that stimulates Muladhara or the root chakra. It attaches you with the energy of nature, makes you feel calm, and safe, and opens your hips while you’re at it.
Sit comfortably on the floor. Slowly pull your heels toward your pelvis. Place the soles of your feet together and interlace your fingers around your bonded toes.
Inhale, relax your groin and press your hips down. Drop the shoulders down and back and press the chest towards the front. Press the knees down towards the floor to open the hips.
Slightly rotate your pelvis so you rest on the top of your Sitz bones, and extend through the spine.
Keeping your back flat and chest open breathe out and gradually pull your torso forward. Close the eyes and stare up at the Ajna or Agya, third eye / sixth chakra.
Hold for 3-5 minutes.
This basic yoga pose opens the hips and chest, stretches the groin, the ankles and the feet, strengthens the spine and stimulates the reproductive, nervous and respiratory systems. Additionally, it helps get rid of mild depression, anxiety, fatigue and other stressful emotions. It soothes menstrual discomfort, sciatica and reduces symptoms of menopause. Also, gives benefit for people with flat feet, asthma, high blood pressure, and infertility. Consistent practice of this pose until late into pregnancy is said to help ease childbirth. It’s a great pose for pregnancy, and you can practice it in every trimester. If you have kiddos, they can do this also with you. Kids called this Butterfly pose.
Sanskrit name: Savasana
Pronunciation: (sha-VAH-suh-nuh)
Level: Difficult
This popular pose looks easy but no, it’s not. If you think about, simply lying on the floor flat and trying to feel deeply relax is easy whenever doing yoga you are off beam. It’s because the art of relaxation is harder than it looks. Also, this one is commonly used as the concluding pose of a yoga sequence as a time for relaxation and recovery.
1. Lie flat on your back with your both legs straight and arms at your sides.
2. Rest your both hands palms up about 6 inches away from your body. Then, let your feet drop open and gently close your eyes.
3. Start to feel relax and in harmony, just let your breath come about naturally.
3. Simply let your body to feel heavy on the floor.
4. Beginning from the soles of your feet up to the crown of your head, willfully release every body part, organ, and cell.
5. Continue to relax, fall deeper into silence, let go of every part and invite peace in your mind, soul and body. Stay in corpse pose for 5-10 minutes.
Doing Corpse pose is emptying the mind. Carrying out Savasana pose stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system. Other health benefits which Corpse pose can do are lowering blood pressure, decreasing heart rate, slowing rate or respiration, decreasing muscle tension, decreasing metabolic rate, reducing headaches, bringing relief from insomnia and fatigue, increasing productivity, energy levels, concentration and memory. Besides those physical health benefits, it’s therapeutic for stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and depression.
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