February 2009 - Posts

• Yoga Asanas - Postures: Shav asan / Corpse pose

  Shav Aasan or corpse is an excelent posture to relax body. It can be done before starting yoga or at the end of yoga. How to do it: lie down close your eyes keep 2 feel distance on legs tun palms upward to sky relax and bring your attention to your breath. Intially if you need help, put one hand on stomach and one hand on chest to feel the breath. When you are relaxed and aware of breath, bring the hands back to ground.   At this point you can do body scan: bring attention to top of you head and slowly move down to each part of the body thanking/relaxing it. OR simply stay lying down and relax enjoying the bliss feeling of deep relaxation.   To end: bring your attention back to body, slightly move fingers and feet slowly turn to one side, put hands below your head. slowly come into sitting posture put hands together in prayer posture (Namaste) and bow to your divine self. (video to follow) Posted Feb 22 2009, 01:54 PM by Jazz with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Yoga Postures [Edit Tags]

• Yoga Asanas - Postures: Bicycle Posture / Chakra Paad Chalan Aasan

  How to do: Start with sitting posture (Sukh Aasan) brings legs in front and lie down on back hands side slightly below hips lift and bend left leg and move like cycle 10 times forward 10 times reverse switch to right leg and do the bicycle birngs both legs down close your eyes turn to one side keeping hands below head feel the relaxation sit back into sitting posture Benifits: blood circulation in legs, reduces arthiritis pain in the knees while bicycling the pressure on legs and stomach and helps reduce fat. (Video will be posted in future) Posted Feb 22 2009, 01:53 PM by Jazz with no comments Filed under: Yoga Postures [Edit Tags]

• Yoga Asanas - Postures: Vritta Pad Chalan Aasan / Leg Circling posture

  How to do it: Start with sitting posture (Sukh Aasan) brings legs in front and lie down on back hands side slightly below hips lift right leg straight up until comfortable and make circles 10 times clockwise then 10 times anti-clockwise (try to keep equal distance in all directions when making circles) then switch to right leg and do as above. brings both legs down close your eyes turn to one side keeping hands below head stay in this position for 10 seconds to feel the relaxation sit back into sitting posture Benifits: hip bones , circulation in legs pressure on legs and stomach helps in reducing fat Posted Feb 22 2009, 01:28 PM by Jazz with no comments Filed under: Yoga Postures [Edit Tags]

• Yoga Asanas - Postures: Surya Namaskar / Sun Salutation

  Surya Namaskar - Sun Salutation BENIFITS: A greate excersise comrpising of 12 yoga postures. By itself if you do it 12 times a day, you dont need to do anything else. Recommended to do it first thing in morning facing the Sun. If doing with other yoga postures, an excelent sequence to warm up the body and stretch. HOW to do it: Start with Standing posture put hands together in front of heart take hands up over head stretch with tilting hands slight back behnd neck bend down hands leading to by side of legs one leg bend and come into dog coming down go into pushup pusing up cobra go back into dog one leg forward stand up end with hands joined together in front of heart Posted Feb 22 2009, 10:56 AM by Jazz with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Yoga Postures [Edit Tags]