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Description
If you are suffering from indigestion, anxiety, or high blood pressure, then practice Janu Shirshasana.
How to:
For this Yoga pose, sit on the floor with buttocks raised on a folded blanket. Next, straighten your legs in front of you. Inhale and bend your right knee and draw heel backwards (towards your perineum). Rest your right foot lightly against inner left thigh, now lay the outer right leg on floor with your shin perpendicular to your left leg.
Press your right-hand against the inner-right groin, where thigh meets the pelvis along with your left-hand on floor beside the hip. Now exhale and turn your torso slightly towards left by raising the torso while you exert pressure downwards and ground your inner-right thigh. Proceed to align your navel along the central region of left thigh.
Then inhale and raise the front chest by pressing top of left thigh into the ground and actively extending through left heel. Now exert pressure of your left-hand on floor so as to increase twist to the left. Proceed to reach your left-hand outside the foot. Now with your arms extended fully, lengthen front torso starting from pubis till top portion of sternum.
Now breathe out and extend frontward from groins. As you come down, bend your elbows outwards to the sides by lifting them farther from the floor.
Then, lengthen frontward into a relaxing stretch. Make sure your lower belly touches thighs first and later your head. Remain in this yoga posture for one to three minutes. Move upwards by inhaling and repeat the same procedure with legs overturned for same duration of time.
Benefits
The beginner yoga pose serves several benefits such as:
Stretches the hamstrings, shoulders, and spine.
Stimulates the abdominal organs like: kidneys and liver.
Improves digestion.
Contraindications
You must not opt for Janu Shirshasana yoga asana if you are suffering from diarrhea, asthma, or knee injury. Similarly, avoid doing Parivritta Janu Shirshasana if you are suffering from diarrhea.
Photo
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