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Yoga Asana Paschimothasana
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Yoga Asanas - http://www.kalakendra.com/shopping/yo... • Paschimothasana • This is the description of Gorakshanatha in Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Pashchimottanasana, first among asanas, directs the flow of Prana Vayu along Sushumna Nadi. This • asana stimulates gastric secretion and removes fat from the abdominal area, leaving it supple. It also confers equality and equilibrium to the nerves. • In Sanskrit, Paschima refers to back or west, and Uttana means extension or bend. Thus, the term Pashchimottanasana is translated as the posture of posterior extension . • To perform the asana ........ • Sit on the floor, legs together. Stretch forward, place the palms on the floor, by the sides of the hips. Pressing both the palms on the floor, lift the buttocks and push them • back. Come down to let your buttocks touch the floor so as to make your back straight. • Inhale and slowly raise the hands from the sides till they reach a vertical position. Keep both the arms parallel to each other. Stretch hands up and so stretch the spine. As • you exhale slowly, bend forward by maintaining the stretch of the hands. After full forward bend, catch the big toes between the thumb and the index fingers, without • bending at the knees and pull up the knee cap. • Once you catch your toes or legs, bend the elbows and bend the neck. Take the forehead near the knees. • Maintain final position for 1 to 3 minutes. Repeat the asana 1 to 3 times. • To release the posture inhale and raise both the hands, make your back straight and stretch hands again. Exhale and slowly take the hands down. Come to the initial sitting • position. • A word of caution, don't over-stretch to reach the final position on the very first day if you find it difficult. Know your limitations and increase your forward bend gradually. • Seated forward bend provides a deep stretch for entire back side of body from the heels to the neck. Forward fold calms the nervous system and emotions and stimulates • the reproductive and urinary systems. • This asana stretches the hamstring muscles and improves the flexibility of spine and hip joints. The nerves of the of the spinal column are also stimulated by stretching of • the spine. It tones and massages the entire abdominal and pelvic region and stimulates glands, kidneys and liver. Improves digestion. • This posture is recommended for diabetes and hemorrhoids conditions.This asana also has beneficial effects on the waist, making it thinner, and eliminates the unaesthetic • deposits of fat from the abdomen and hips and is extremely efficient in fighting obesity. • This asana favors a better blood circulation in the entire body and especially in the pelvic area, owing to the extension of this particular region. The sexual glands may easily • absorb the necessary quantity of blood, generating, as a result, an increase in virility. Impotence and sexual weakness are consequently rapidly eliminated. • The practice of this asana, owing to the decongestion of the solar plexus, helps in the diffusion of anxious state. The mind becomes stable and calm. People suffering from • slip disc, sciatica, any acute diseases of abdomen, digestive system, diseases like hydrocele , hernia and severe stiffness of back, giving rise to severe backache should not practice this asana.
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