Paschimottanasana – decreasing headache and alot more benefits
Paschimottanasana
Yoga is an effective therapy for not only giving you some physical pleasure but also turns about to be soothing and relaxing for your nerves hence
relieves you from all the stress and fatigue that accumulates in your body and mind every day.
This is why therapists and medical practitioners emphasize of allocating some time to yoga every day so that you achieve the desired results easily without any adverse after effects.
Paschimottanasana is a yoga exercise that gives you quite a lot of benefits like calming your nerves and brain, stimulating your kidneys livers, ovaries etc by giving a great stretch to your spinal cord, thighs etc.
It also helps in digestion, helping in decreasing headache, mental fatigue and effects of menopause.
In order to do this exercise properly you have to follow the following steps.
Begin with sitting on the floor while giving your buttocks the support of a blanket or something and your legs straightened right in from of you.
You have to press your heels and while mildly rocking your left buttock you have to move your right sitting bone away from your heel. Now you have to lift your sternum up.
The next step is that you have to keep your torso straight and breathing in. You also have to elongating the tail bone away from your pelvis. Keep your head raised up in the air with your thumbs on the sole and elbows totally extended.
In case you are holding a strap you have to loosen its grip and move forth with the exercise. Make sure that your stomach will have to touch the thighs before any other part starting with the lower apart of the stomach.
Meanwhile you have to keep breathing in and lift your rib cage so that air reaches in side and you get a good stretch. While you are exhaling you have to let it lose in the front part. You are required to do this exercise for about 3 minutes daily for great results.
Sarvangasana – recommended for asthma, infertility and sinusitis
Sarvangasana
Like all yoga exercises Sarvangasana is known for soothing your nerves and giving you a relaxed state of mind while also relieving you physically.
This exercise can do wonders to you by calming your brains and soothing your nerves that prove to be relieving your physical and mental stress.
Furthermore the Sarvangasana also tends to stimulate your thyroid and prostrate glands along with stretching your shoulders and neck and also toning your shoulders and also neck.
This exercise is recommended by physicians and therapists from all across the globe for patients of asthma, infertility and sinusitis.
However the key to achieving great results with this exercise is by following each and every step carefully and properly.
For this exercise you have need to wrap few blankets on the floor and then place a mat over it in order to support your body and the upper arm in particular.
Now you have to lie down on the blankets giving some proper support to your elbows. You have to rest your arms down on the floor with the torso while raising your pelvis and shoulders up in the air.
You have to inhale and then you will be bending your knees towards the ceiling and putting your thighs parallel to the blanket. Put your back of arms on the torso and then sweep your hands on the back.
Finally you have to put your knees in a straight position while inhaling and pressing your heels to the ceiling. Now you have to decrease tension in your throat and harden your shoulders blades against your back.
In this position you also have to place your forehead in a parallel position of the floor you are resting on. Now give the support of blanket and mat to the back of your palms while trying to life your spinal cord away from the ground.
If this your first time then you has to stay in this pose for about 30 seconds however later it can be increased to maximum 5 minutes daily for effective results.
