Sanskrit Name: Uttanasana
Good for: Liver, kidneys, brain, hips, calves, thighs, knees, anxiety, osteoporosis etc.
Benefits
- Calms down the brain
- Helps alleviate stress
- Treats mild depression
- Fuels the liver and kidneys
- Provides elasticityto the hamstrings, calves, and hips
- Provides strength to the thighs and knees
- Improves digestion
- Helps dismiss the symptoms of menopause
- Diminishes fatigue and anxiety
- Provides instant relief from headache and insomnia
- Beneficial for asthma
- Controls high blood pressure
- Treats infertility, osteoporosis, and sinusitis
Guidelines
- Stand in Tadasana with hands on hips
- Exhale and bend forward from the hip joints, not from the waist
- As you descend draw the front torso out of the groins and open the space between the pubis and top sternum
- Bring your palms or finger tips to the floor slightly in front of or beside your feet, if possible
- If this isn’t possible, cross your forearms and hold your elbows
- Press the heels firmly into the floor and lift the sitting bones toward the ceiling
- Turn the top thighs slightly inward
- With each inhalation in the pose, lift and lengthen the front torso just slightly
- Release fully with each exhalation
- Let your head hang from the root of the neck, which is deep in the upper back, between the shoulder blades
- Stay in the pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Bring your hands back onto your hips and reaffirm the length of the front torso (don’t roll the spine to come up)
- Press your tailbone down and into the pelvis and come up on an inhalation with a long front torso
Good to know
- To upsurge the stretch in the backs of your legs, curve your knees slightly
- Be cautious not to uncurl the knees by lodging them back
- You can press your hands against the back of each knee to offer some resistance
By : Natural Health News