What is Chakrasana
Chakrasana Chakrasana is the most important and primary Asana to bend back side. In this pose, you have to lie on your back and push up, balancing just on the hands and feet.
- This pose is called a bridge.This asana is a skill in which the asana is perform by bending backward from a standing position.
Also Know as: Circle Pose, Full Wheel Posture, Full circle, Purna Chakra Asan, Puma Chakrasana, Up-ward Bow Posture, Back-bend Pose, Half Wheel Asana, Adha/ Adho Dhanur Asan, Urdhva Dhanurasana
How to start this Asana
- Lie facing upward on the floor.
- Bend your knees and set your feet on the floor, heels as close to the sitting bones as possible.
- Bend your elbows and spread your palms on the floor beside your head.
- Forearms relatively perpendicular to the floor, fingertips pointing towards shoulders.
- While inhaling, slowly begin to raise the head, back and buttocks off the floor while arcing the spine.
- Hold for the duration of the held inhaled breath.
How to end this Asana
- When you can’t hold the breath comfortable any longer, slowly exhale and return the back to the floor.
- Slide the legs out straight returning to the shavasan.
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Benefits of Chakrasana
According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Strengthens the arms, wrists, buttocks, abdomen and spine.
- Stretches the lungs and chest.
- Stimulates the thyroid and pituitary.
- Increases energy and counteracts depression.
- Helps in asthma, back pain, infertility and osteoporosis.
Precaution to be taken before doing Chakrasana
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Avoid this asana if you have problem of back injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, diarrhea, headache, heart problems, high or low blood pressure.
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
Chakrasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
