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Description
Dhanurasana (Bow Pose) and Parshva D. (Side Bow Pose) are here to help you if you are suffering from pitta and constipation disorders, forget antibiotics and start practicing the asanas.
How to:
For this, you need to recline on your belly with your arms on the sides along with your palms facing upwards.
Exhale and crook your knees and bring your heels nearer to your buttocks.
Proceed to reach your ankles by bending backwards. Allow your weight to rest on your stomach. Also make sure not to rest your weight on your pelvis.
Inhale and lift your knees forward by pulling your ankles using your hands.
Proceed to breathe regularly and along with this, try to enhance stretching in the chest in addition to backward bending for attaining a relaxed mind and body.
You can finish this yoga asana by allowing your right shoulder move towards the floor and rolling over onto your right side without holding your ankles. Stay in this pose for 20-30 seconds. Next, roll over to the left hand side for stay in this pose for the same duration. Parshva D. stimulates the abdominal organs.
Benefits
This asana serve several yoga health benefits such as:
Therapeutic for osteoporosis, infertility, back pain, and asthma
Increases strength and counteracts the depression
Stimulates the pituitary and thyroid
Strengthens spine, abdomen, buttocks, wrists, and arms
Stretches the lungs and chest
If you are in search of yoga for back pain or yoga for stress relief, don't get swayed with the other options. Learn more about the contraindications of the asanas before opting for this asana.
Contraindications
People having low or high blood pressure must avoid this asana.
If you have heart problems, forget this yoga asana.
In case of severe headache, do not opt to do this.
If you are suffering from diarrhoea, just rule out this yoga asana
If you have 'Carpal Tunnel Syndrome', do not opt for this asana.
In case of severe back injury, never make a mistake by doing this yoga asana.
Dhanurasan is named so since the legs and torso seem like an archer's bow. This pose helps in combating constipation, relieving mild back-pain, improving respiration, and menstrual cramps. Rolling action of the asanas provide the best massage internally to abdominal organs.
So perform this yoga asana to attain the deep satisfaction, which cannot be attained with any other material benefit.
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