Sanskrit Name: Halasana
Good for: Backache, headache, brain, insomnia, abdominal organs
Benefits
- Calms down the brain
- Fuels the abdominal organs and the thyroid gland
- Provides stretch and elasticity to the shoulders and spine
- Helps alleviate the symptoms of menopause
- Condenses stress and fatigue
- Beneficial for backache, headache, infertility, insomnia, sinusitis
Guidelines
- From SalambaSarvangasana, exhale and bend from the hip joints to slowly lower your toes to the floor above and beyond your head
- Keep your torso perpendicular to the floor and your legs fully extended
- With your toes on the floor, lift your top thighs and tailbone towards the ceiling
- Draw your inner groins deep into the pelvis
- Imagine that your torso is hanging from the height of your groins
- Continue to draw your chin away from your sternum and soften your throat
- Continue to press your hands against the back torso, pushing the back up toward the ceiling as you press the backs of the upper arms down, onto your support
- You can release your hands away from your back and stretch the arms out behind you on the floor, opposite the legs
- Clasp the hands and press the arms actively down on the support as you lift the thighs toward the ceiling
- To exit the pose bring your hands onto your back again
- Lift back into Sarvangasana with an exhalation
- Roll down onto your back
- Simply roll out of the pose on an exhalation
“Halasana is usually performed after Sarvangasana for anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes.”
Good to know
- Avoid doing this pose if you have diarrhea
- Do not attempt this pose during your periods
- Do not attempt if you have neck injury
- It is not advised to attempt this pose if you have asthma or high blood pressure
- If you are pregnant and you are a beginner in this pose than strictly not attempt it
- With the feet on the floor, this pose is considered to be intermediate to advanced
- It is not sensible to perform the pose in this way without adequateerstwhileskill or lest you have the directions of a skilled instructor.
By : Natural Health News
