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Description
You want to relieve stress and don't know how. Just opt for Salabhasana (Locust Pose), which helps you strengthen your arms and legs, improve your posture, and relieve stress.
How to:
Lie with your face-down on the ground on your stomach with your hands stretched back and close to the body while keeping your legs straight.
Take a deep breath in and take up as much as air you can. Then hold your breath and keep your head parallel to the floor and put chin on the floor. Now tighten both legs and lift them high as possible. Ensure that you don't bend your knees.
Remain in this pose for at least 20 seconds.
Now exhale and at the same time lower your legs slowly onto the floor. Make sure you don't drop your legs. So, now you have finished a round of the most difficult posture. So, relax well.
Benefits
This asana helps you cure lower-back pain, constipation, flatulence, indigestion and fatigue. This posture exercises muscles of calves, hamstrings, buttocks, lower back, upper back, upper arms and neck.
This asana offers numerous health benefits like:
Strengthens the lower abdomen muscles
Helpful in digestion and removing constipation
Provides strength to lungs
Increases the abdominal pressure
Regulates intestinal function
Relieves backache
There exist several benefits of yoga but prior to doing these postures, it is essential that you go through the various contraindications that must be given importance.
Contraindications
If you are suffering from high-blood pressure, you should not try Salabhasana.
If you have asthma or heart disease, do not ever think of doing this yoga asana.
If you are a beginner, you may find it difficult to hold this hatha yoga posture. In such a case, you can use a folded or blanket for support. Try this asana after placing the blanket below your lower sternum and raise up your upper torso.
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