What is Baddha Padmasana
Baddha Padmasana This stretch is not an easy task, but if practiced correctly it will give benefit to your body.
- This asana is very effective for chronic constipation and prevents arthritis from forming in the knees.
Also Know as: Bound Lotus Posture, Hidden Lotus Pose, Badd or Badh Pad Asan, bandha Padmasana
How to start this Asana
- Sit in the posture of Lotus (Padmasana).
- While exhaling twist slightly to the right and reach back with the right hand to grasp your right big toe.
- Inhale.
- Again while exhaling, twist slightly to the left and reach back with your left hand to grasp your left big toe.
- Maintain the asana as long as possible, and increase the duration gradually and with ease.
- Don’t forget to inhale and exhale normally.
How to end this Asana
- To release, loose your arms and slowly come back to padmasana.
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Benefits of Baddha Padmasana
According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Decreases joints pains.
- Improves digestive system, appetite.
- Improves liver functions.
Precaution to be taken before doing Baddha Padmasana
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Not for the persons who are the patients of Gastric ulcer, enlarged spleen and heart, lungs etc.
- diseases.
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
Baddha Padmasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
