What is Hamsasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Hamsasana

Hamsasana This asana effects the abdominal area, increasing its flow of blood and energy.

• The abdominal organs are massaged and the second position also warm up the knee and hip joints. The shoulders and arms receive a good stretch, toning the muscles and preventing fat deposits.
• The difference between Mayurasana and Hamsasana is simply that the fingers are facing forward in Hamsasana rather than backwards as in Mayurasana.

Also Know as: Easy Peacock Posture, Swan Pose, Hamas Asan, Hamasa Asana

How to start this Asana

• Start with the modified Balasana (Child pose or Garbhasana) with your arms stretched out in front of you.
• Now, inhale, and turn the toes in and lift your buttocks and press forward keeping your head down.
• Then gently lift the head and the shoulders by pushing off by pushing off your hands which should be positioned under the shoulders and exhale.
• Then inhale again, and straighten your arms and lift your head, shoulders and chest up and look upwards.
• Hold this position for a while and then exhale.

How to end this Asana

• Now to release, gently lower the shoulders and the chest to the ground.
• Begin to lift the buttocks up and pull yourself back into child pose.
• Do the pose for 3-4 times.

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Benefits of Hamsasana

According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below^(YR/1)

1. This pose flexes and strengthens the spine, shoulders, arms, wrists, chest, throat and pelvic area.
2. It also effects the abdominal area, increasing its flow of blood and energy.

Precaution to be taken before doing Hamsasana

As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below^(YR/2)

1. Avoid this asana if you have problem of hernia and the hypertension.
2. And this asana is also not for the women who are in the midst of becoming pregnant.

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
Hamsasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.