Yoga-Meditations

Yoga asanas provide calm and mental peace and fills one with energy just after few hours of practice. Though these exercises seem easy in the beginning, these can become difficult, if practiced rigorously as all the muscles in the body has to be consciously released. Though muscles appear completely relaxed but tightness remains, making comfort elusive even while sleeping. A little relief lies in traditional supine pose because continuous postural abnormalities pay a lot of strain on the back muscles. Hence, these exercises make you and your spine relief. The main aim of such asanas is to provide the utmost relaxation for every part of muscles. Moreover, these asanas are the saviours and provide a huge solace to those who suffer from spinal chord problem. These asanas have a fixed time duration, but they can be performed at any time of the day.

There are various poses in Relaxation asanas series and are discussed below
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Corpse Pose or Shavasana: A daily dose of shavasana is recommended to their disciples by yoga gurus on daily basis to ensure their mental fitness and body calm. To perform this yoga, you first need a small stretching session; following which and once you stop perspiring, lie down flat on a clean and smooth surface in a disturbance free and clean environment. You should lie down flat on your back with your hands well separated and feet spread apart. Hands should be relaxed and on their respective sides. On achieving a complete balance, close your eyes and try to reach a complete relaxed state of heart and mind. Now start gentle breathing and feel its effect on your abdomen; shallow breathing being the best way to achieve trance state. This state should be enjoyed daily for 5-10 minutes post your exercise session.

Crocodile pose or Makarasana: This asana provides mental peace to the people of all ages and hence is considered the best asana in the series. The effect of this asana is felt at two points: the lower back and the neck. To perform this yoga, you need to do following steps:

• You should lie flat on your stomach on yoga mat
• Relaxing the lower torso, bend both the hands from below
• Placing the palms below the cheeks for support, raise the neck and shoulder. Remain conscious towards your body as you may experience some strain on backbone and neck
• You should keep on adjusting the elbow to spread out tension evenly between lower back and neck
• Positioning your body with ease, close your eyes and breathe easy

Flapping fish pose or Matsya Kridasana: This is nothing but an Indian conversion of Flapping Fish pose. The position resembles to a flapping fish and thus goes this name. This asana is highly recommended to pregnant women since this is highly beneficial when they get into 3rd trimester – a time when their tummy swells gradually and cause invariant restlessness. At such time, by following instructions given below, they can do this asana very easily and comfortable.

• First, lie on the stomach with straight legs, with palms touching the ground.
• Keeping left knee straight, move the right knee upwards.
• Now, put the right cheek over the fist.
• Maintain both the palms keeping downward.
• Now try to touch the right with your right elbow.
• You can put your knee anywhere as per the convenience.
• Now, try to balance the entire body.
• Take a deep breath, close your eyes and relax the body completely.
• Practice this at any suitable time.
• When this asana gets over, lie down in Shavasana and relax for few minutes