The simple Basti is termed as Jala Basti or Basti done with water. There is another kind called Sthala-Basti which is practiced without water as described as follows.<\/p>\n
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Sitting in \u201cPashchimottan\u201d position, squeeze and expand the rectum muscles as in Ashvini Mudra. This practice removes constipation and improves digestion. It helps in removing the abdominal wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The simple Basti is termed as Jala Basti or Basti done with water. There is another kind called Sthala-Basti which is practiced without water as described as follows. Sitting in \u201cPashchimottan\u201d position, squeeze and expand the rectum muscles as in Ashvini Mudra. This practice removes constipation and improves digestion. It helps in removing the … Continue reading “Sthala Basti”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,17,3,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basti","category-books","category-hathayoga","category-shatkarma","category-the-yogic-shat-karma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yFu-41","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}