What is Ardha Bhujangasana
Ardha Bhujangasana In this asana let the lower part of your body from the toes up to the navel touch the ground. Place the palms on the ground and raise the head like a cobra.
- Because of its shape like cobra, it is called cobra posture.
Also Know as: Half-cobra Posture, Half Snake Pose, Adha Bhujang Asan
How to start this Asana
- Take Prone Position (Advasana), legs together, and toes together, pointing outward, hands by the side of the body, fingers together palm facing upward and your face looking upward.
- Fold hands at the elbows, place palms on the ground near each side of the shoulder, thumb should be under the armpit.
- Bring the jaw forward and place it on the ground.
- Look towards front.
- Raise chin and turn head backward as much as possible.
- Raise the chest towards backward up to the navel.
- Do not raise navel.
- Maintain the posture for sometime.
How to end this Asana
- To release, slowly bring your body on the ground, start it form the abdomen, then chest, shoulder, jaw and lastly place the forehead on the ground.
- Now, relax your hands and place them by the either side of the thighs.
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Benefits of Ardha Bhujangasana
According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Straighten the arms and walk them back towards the body until they are vertical.
- This affects the muscles of the body.
- It is more effective for Asthma, Dyspepsia like diseases and helps in keeping the spine flexible.
Precaution to be taken before doing Ardha Bhujangasana
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Do not give jerk (a sudden abrupt pull) to lift up your body.
- Navel or lower part of the navel must not be raised.
- Put minimum weight on hands.
- Divide weight on spine and arms.
- While in final position, the thumb should touch the chest near armpit.
- In the beginning weight can remain on hands.
- While coming back some persons bend their head first but it should be avoided.
- The part of the body which leaves the ground first will return to the ground last.
So, consult your doctor if you have any of the problem mentioned above.
Histroy and scientific base of Yoga
Due to the oral transmission of sacred writings and the secrecy of its teachings, yoga’s past is riddled with mystery and confusion. Early yoga literature were recorded on delicate palm leaves. So it was easily damaged, destroyed, or lost. Yoga’s origins may be dated back over 5,000 years. However other academics believe it could be as old as 10,000 years. Yoga’s lengthy and illustrious history may be split into four distinct periods of growth, practise, and invention.
- Pre Classical Yoga
- Classical Yoga
- Post Classical Yoga
- Modern Yoga
Yoga is a psychological science with philosophical overtones. Patanjali begins his Yoga method by instructing that the mind must be regulated – Yogahs-chitta-vritti-nirodhah. Patanjali does not delve into the intellectual underpinnings of the need to regulate one’s mind, which are found in Samkhya and Vedanta. Yoga, he continues, is the regulation of the mind, the constraint of the thought-stuff. Yoga is a science based on personal experience. The most essential advantage of yoga is that it helps us to maintain a healthy bodily and mental state.
Yoga can help to slow down the ageing process. Since aging starts mostly by autointoxication or self-poisoning. So, we can considerably limit the catabolic process of cell degeneration by keeping the body clean, flexible, and properly lubricated. Yogasanas, pranayama, and meditation must all be combined to reap the full advantages of yoga.
SUMMARY
Ardha Bhujangasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
