What is Balasana 1
Balasana 1 Balasana is a resting pose that can precede or follow any asana. It looks like a foetus that’s why it is also called Foetus pose or Garbhasana.
Also Know as: Child Posture, Baby Pose, Foetus Pose, Bal Asan, Bala Asana, Garbhasana, Gharbha Asana, Gharabh Asan
How to start this Asana
- Firstly kneel on the floor.
- Touch your big toes together and sit on your heels, then separate your knees about as wide as your hips.
- Exhale and lay your torso down between your thighs.
- Broaden your sacrum across the back of your pelvis and narrow your hip points toward the navel, so that they nestle down onto the inner thighs.
- Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of the pelvis while you lift the base of your skull away from the back of your neck.
- Feel how the weight of the front shoulders pulls the shoulder blades wide across your back.
- Balasana is a resting pose.
- Stay anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes.Beginners can also use Balasana to get a taste of a deep forward bend, where the torso rests on the thighs.
- Stay in the pose from 1 to 3 minutes.
How to end this Asana
- To come up, first lengthen the front torso, and then with an breath in, lift the chest from the lower part of the spine.
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Benefits of Balasana 1
According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Gently stretches the hips, thighs, and ankles.
- Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and fatigue.
- Relieves back and neck pain when done with head and torso supported.
Precaution to be taken before doing Balasana 1
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Diarrhea.
- Pregnancy.
- Knee injury: Avoid Balasana unless you have the supervision of an experienced teacher.
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
Balasana 1 is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
