Category: Asanas

 

 

Technique

Sit with your legs folded and feet touching the ground. Put your hands on the knees. The knees to be kept tight close together and should not be raised from the ground in the lying position.(Supt-Vajr Asana).

 

Benefits

• Strengthens the body.
• Removes disorders of digestion and sex.
• Useful for feet, legs, stomach and chest.
• Accelerates the digestion process.

 

 

Technique

Sit with legs out stretched and straight. Hold right toe with the fingers of left hand and the left toe with the fingers of your right hand. Bring your left toe towards your right ear and keep the right leg straight. Keep the legs and the trunk well stretched. Change the position of legs and arms & repeat.

 

Benefits

• Very useful exercise for legs, arms and trunk.
• Cures the problems pertaining to stomach and abdomen.
• Relieves the body lymphatic pains.

 

 

Technique

Sit on your folded legs. Balance on fingertips & not on palms. Raise the trunk high. Throw head back.

 

Benefits

• Helpful in removing disorders of stomach, chest and spine.
• Strengthens legs and the arms.
• Good for the patients suffering from backache.

 

 

Technique

Get in to the Posture of Sarvang Asana. Slowly take your legs backwards so that the knees touch the ground & press against the ears. The " Nada" tone be listened for mental concentration.

 

Benefits

• Maintains the elasticity of the Spine.
• Cures the Stomach disorder and liver complaints.
• Helps in curing Gastrointestinal problems.

 

 

Technique

Raise the chest fully and through back the neck as far as possible. Let the entire body on the abdomen only.

 

Benefits

• Cures stomach, spine & chest disorders.
• Exercises the arms, neck, ribs & lungs.
• Very effective against obesity.
• Increase the height.
• Cures Asthma and cough.

 

 

 

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).