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Description
If you are an asthmatic patient, take a sigh of relief since Ushtrasana (Camel Pose) can help you activating your respiratory system.
How to:
Assume kneeling position, then keep knees just shoulder-width apart in addition to your big toes spaced 8-inches apart. Make sure that your toes and knees touch the ground.
Now place posterior between heels and assume a comfortable position.
Proceed to hold heels with hands and press the heels using your palms.
Continue to breathe in and out few times.
By breathing in, lift your posterior above the heels and get up on knees and toes.
Then, pull shoulders back and press your hips forward.
By breathing out, lift your chest and slightly bend the head and trunk backwards as far as you can, to curve your spine backwards.
While keeping your arms straight, turn your face towards the roof.
Now complete the exhalation procedure and take few profound breaths.
Turn your feet upside down and keep the toes and upper portion of your feet parallel on the floor.
Then hold both ankles with corresponding hands and proceed to bend your back further on arms while making a curvature of body.
Remain in this position breathing in rhythmically and deeply till you feel strained.
While breathing in, release your hands and get back to the kneeling posture.
Then resume the sitting pose between heels after which proceed with the original sitting pose.
Benefits
This yoga asana is mainly for toning nerves and muscles attached to entire spine beside muscles of face, neck, trunk, and thighs.
Health benefits:
This beginner yoga pose offers several health benefits such as:
Improving the flexibility of diaphragm.
Expansion of lungs to maximum capacity and development of ribcage.
Extension of spine makes them more flexible, particularly the lumbar region.
Helps activate respiratory system, thereby; Ushtrasana is beneficial for people suffering from asthma.
Body usually becomes weak because of the impurities present in blood or if the semen and flesh are diseased, in all these cases, Ushtrasana benefits a lot.
There exist benefits of yoga which is one side of a coin and on the other side there are contraindications, which must be found before performing this balance yoga.
Contraindications
If you have severe lumbago or an enlarged thyroid, do not opt to do this asana.
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