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How to do the Standing Forward Bend — 12 Basic Asanas 11
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * • Visit us online: • https://sivanandacanada.org • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * • THE STANDING FORWARD BEND: PĀDA-HASTĀSANA • Gives many of the same benefits as the Forward Bend. It is the first of the standing poses. In light of the expression “you are as young as your spine,” the Standing Forward Bend is a veritable elixir of youth. Its practice promotes a continued youthful vigor throughout life. • If you notice that your legs are stiff from too much sitting on chairs, practice this Standing Forward Bend. Using the pull of gravity, this pose quickly lengthens the muscles and ligaments of the entire posterior side of your body – from your heels to the middle of your back. It also prepares you for the next āsana, Triangle. • PHYSICAL BENEFITS • • Restores flexibility to the back of the body, alleviating muscular tension in the back. • • Corrects exaggerated lower back curve. • • Massages all abdominal organs, especially the liver and spleen. Improves digestion. Intestines are regulated, peristalsis increased and constipation combated. • • It helps to regulate pancreatic functions, which control carbohydrate metabolism and blood sugar levels, making it valuable for diabetes patients and people with hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). • • The entire nervous system is invigorated. • • The mobility of the joints is enhanced, the spine becomes elastic and a youthful body is maintained. • • Regular practice helps to prevent compression of the spine and sciatica (pain along course of sciatic nerve, esp. in leg). • • It stretches the hamstrings (the muscles on the back of your upper legs), lumbar and sacral regions, improves postural alignment and reduces nervous tension in the body. • MENTAL BENEFITS • • The mind is calmed. • • This pose requires conscious control to align toes, knees, and neck correctly, and conscious letting go, by allowing gravity to pull the spine into the pose. Achieving control with detachment is a benefit that can be applied to daily life, as well as in the practice of meditation. • __________________________________________________________________ • Learn the 12 core postures of Sivananda Yoga to experience better health inner peace. • For more inspiration follow us on: • / sivanandayogacamp • / sivanandayogacamp • / sivanandacamp • Sign up to our newsletter: • https://sivananda.org/camp/newsletter • __________________________________________________________________ • ABOUT SIVANANDA CANADA • The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres is a non-profit organization named after Swami Sivananda, one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century and founded by his disciple Swami Vishnudevananda. • The mission – to spread peace, health and joy through yoga. All are welcome to come to our ashrams and centres to learn not only about how yoga can help maintain a healthy body but also how yogic philosophy, applied in daily life, can help maintain a peaceful mind and spirit. • In 1957, Swami Vishnudevananda on instructions from his guru, Swami Sivananda, came to the West to bring the teachings of yoga. He established the first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta centre in Montreal, Canada, in 1959 and to date there are close to 60 Sivananda locations (ashrams, yoga centres and affiliated centres) around the world. Over 26,000 teachers have been trained in the TTC programs. • The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams and Centres are recognized worldwide for teaching yoga authentically, preserving its purity and tradition dating back several thousand years. They also offer a wide range of programs and even the possibility for spiritual growth through Karma yoga as a temporary or full time staff program participant. • Swami Vishnudevananda made the yogic teachings understandable and available to all by simplifying them into five points, showing specific ways to develop physical and mental health as well as spiritual growth through ~ Proper Exercise (Asanas), Proper Breathing (Pranayama), Proper Relaxation (Savasana), Proper Diet (vegetarian), Positive Thinking (Vedanta) and Meditation (Dhyana). • Together with Swami Sivananda’s revival of the yoga of synthesis tradition, which integrates the four paths of Yoga (Karma, Bhakti, Raja, Jnana), a well-balanced Sadhana (spiritual discipline) is achievable by those sincerely seeking for a change in their lives. • Visit us online: • https://sivanandacanada.org
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