Stabdhasana
- Stand straight with your feet apart at shoulder distance.
- Raise your arms upto your shoulders with your elbows bent so that your hands are in front of your chest.
- Bend the wrist upwards with fingers open. Now imagine you are holding any solid object between your hands. Press your hands against each other using muscles of the hand, forearms, upper arm and chest area, as if you pressing that imaginary object.
- Concentrate your eyes in the space between your hands. Hold this position for 20 seconds, muscles as tight as possible, and repeat 3 to 5 times.
Sajah Stabdhasana
- Put your legs together, fold them and sit on the ground so that the legs and feet touch the ground and your buttocks rest on your heels.
- Look forward and lift your arms bringing them in line at the shoulder level.
- Now stretch the hands backwards and try to touch the back of both palms together.
- Do not bend your body and keep your back straight so that head and neck are in line with the body.
- Hold this position for 20 seconds and come back to original position. Repeat 3 to 5 times.
Bhujangasana
- Lie on your stomach with your body and legs straight on a flat surface.
- Put feet together.
- Place your palms on the floor slightly to the side of your shoulders with fingers forward.
- First relax your whole body specially your lower back. Now gently put pressure on hands to raise your head, neck and shoulders.
- Straighten your elbows and raise the trunk as high as you can, using the muscles of your back and not of your arms.
- Now use your arm muscles to raise the trunk further. Now you should be in a shape of an arc.
- Gently tilt your head backwards and look up.
- Keep your public bone in contact with the floor and raise your navel.
- Hold for 20 seconds and come back to original position. Repeat 5 times.
Ushtrasana
- Kneal or stand on your knees with knees shoulder apart. Only your knees and toes should touch ground.
- Lean backward, slowly reaching for the right heel with the right hand and then the left heel with the left hand. Do not strain. Keep your thighs vertical and push your pelvis forward.
- Bend your head and spine backwards as far as possible.
- Try to relax into the stretch.
- Hold in this position for 20 seconds.
- Slowly release the hands rom the heels one at a time to return to the starting position Repeat 3 to 5 times
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