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Technique

Place hands on the floor only as apart as the breadth of the chest. Keep the legs perfectly extended behind. Raise the chest only up to the naval. Through back your neck.

 

Benefits

• Renders spine elastic.
• Tones up back & abdominal muscles.
• Strengthens respiratory system.
• Improves appetite.
• Checks abdominal growth.
• Cures constipation, Gastro Intestinal problems, tuberculosis and asthma.

 

 

Technique

Sit on your right knee with the right leg folded and left foot on the ground. Try to keep the body vertically straight.

 

Benefits

• Imparts Strength and Flexibility to the legs.
• Useful for abdomen and back bone.
• Helpful in curing backache.
• Cures urinary problems and pain in shoulders.

 

 

Technique

Fold your right leg in such a way that the right foot touches the left thigh. Put the left leg above the folded right leg. Press the lower heel tight against the lower nerves.

 

Benefits

• This is the most convenient posture for the practice of Pranayama and meditation.
• Increases the concentrating power of the mind.

 

 

Technique

Raise the body slowly in such a way that the whole body except for the neck and the shoulders is above the ground. Move the legs sideways and in pedaling mode. Bring the body back very slowly and steadily avoiding any jerks.

 

Benefits

• Exercises the whole body.
• Beneficial for the heart, brain and the stomach.
• Improves eyesight.
• Activates the thyroid gland and spine.
• Augments the digestive power.
• Cures bowel troubles.
• Cures stomach ache.
• Cures the air borne diseases.
• Helpful in the observance of celibacy (Brahmacharya).

 

 

 

Technique

Sit with right leg straight and stretched, and left leg folded in such a way that the left foot touches the right high. The heel should sufficiently press the lower nerves. Press the abdomen inward.

 

Benefits

• Beneficial for the legs.
• Reduces the enlarged abdomen.
• Helpful in the observance of celibacy (Brahmacharya).

 

Technique

Sit with fingers of the left foot on the ground and the right leg over the left leg. Put hands on waist. Try to balance body. Keep legs parallel to the ground as shown above. Keep body straight and vertical and the abdomen pressed inward.

 

Benefits

• Beneficial in the observance of celibacy (Brahmacharya).
• Tones up the nerves.
• Strengthens the feet.

 

Technique

Sit and stretch legs forward. Touch the feet with hand and the knees with the forehead without any jerky movements. Do not raise knees. Do this four or five times and you would see that after a few days, your body has become more elastic.

 

Benefits

• Improves digestion and cures constipation.
• Beneficial for legs, waist, stomach, liver and spleen.
• Purifies the nerves.
• Reduces the body weight and increases mental ability.
• Helps strengthen Sushumna Nadi.
• Increases the elasticity of the spine, thereby giving perennial youth.

 

Technique

Lie on the back. Stretch the body and toes. Raise feet up to three inches very slowly. Hold the position for few seconds and return slowly.

 

Benefits

• Improves appetite.
• Cures constipation.
• Strengthens the nerves.
• Relieves abdominal stiffness.

 

Technique

Stand straight. Lift your left foot. Hold the toe of your left foot with your right hand and keep the left hand on your waist. Stretch the left leg so that it comes to your waist level (making 90^o angle with right leg). Both the legs and the trunk are to be kept straight. Balance as long as you can conveniently.

Then repeat the pose, holding right leg with left hand.

 

Benefits

• Gives strength to the legs.
• Solves spinal problems and tones up the nerves.
• Exercises arms.
• Beneficial for the proper functioning of the intestines.
• Helpful in observance of celibacy (Brahmacharya).