Navasana Boat Pose requires you to maintain balance on the tripod, with pelvic bones (on which you sits).
- This asana helps to strengthen front side muscles of the hip and abdomen. The mid section of the body connects the lower body to the upper body and is the source of balance and control.
Also Know as: Boat Posture, Half Boat Pose, Ardh-Nauka Asana
How to start this Asana
- Start with Shavasana with legs together, hands by the side of the body and palms touching to ground.
- Breathe in and start raising your legs, arms, head and trunk together to reach 30-45 degrees (for both legs and trunk).
- Keep your spine and legs straight.
- Position your arms just parallel to the legs.
- Hold the position till you feel confortable while breathing normally.
How to end this Asana
- While returning, firstly place your head & trunk back to the ground.
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According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Boat pose tonifies the kidneys and stimulates the reproductive and digestive systems.
- This asana strengthens the legs and core body while opening the chest and stretching the low back.
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Not for the persons who have recent or chronic injury to the back, arms or shoulders, pregnancy, menstruation, or recent abdominal surgery.
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
Navasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
