What is Lolasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Lolasana

Lolasana Lolasana (Pendant Pose) is a beginning arm balance that presents an experience requiring courage: the courage necessary to literally pull yourself up off the floor.

Also Know as: Swinging Posture, Pendant Pose, Lol Asan, Lola Asana, Uthitapadmasana, Uthitta/ Uthita-Padma Asana, Uthit padm Asan

How to start this Asana

  • Start from Padmasana and bring the hands to the floor on the outside of the thighs.
  • Inhale and press down into the palms as you engage the abdomen and lift the legs and buttocks off the floor.
  • Take several breaths and release.

How to end this Asana

  • To release, come back to the padmasana position loose your legs and relax.

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Benefits of Lolasana

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

  1. Strengthens the abdominal muscles and the arms.Lolasana builds awareness in the core of the body.
  2. It helps to build abdominal and arm strength while encouraging usage of uddiyan bandh.

Precaution to be taken before doing Lolasana

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

  1. Not for the persons who have recent or chronic wrist or back injury.

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