What is Padmasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Padmasana

Padmasana Padma literally means lotus. This is the posture for meditation. It is the ultimate yoga pose, Padmasana requires open hips and consistent practice.

Also Know as: Lotus Posture/ Pose, Padma Asan, Padma Asana

How to start this Asana

• Keep the right foot on the left thigh.
• Start bouncing the right knee.
• If the bouncing knee easily touches the floor, then bend the left knee, take hold of the left foot with both hands, gently glide it over the crossed right leg and place it on the right thigh.
• This will give symmetrical placement of the legs and you are in lotus position.
• The hands should be kept on the knees with palms open, and the thumb and second finger of each hand should touch forming a letter O.

How to end this Asana

• Stay in the position as long as you can and after that release the pose and be comfortable.

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Benefits of Padmasana

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

1. It is effective for liver disorder.
2. This is an extremely good pose for meditation and concentration.
3. It has a calming effect on the mind and the nerves.
4. This pose keeps the spine erect.
5. Helps develop a good posture.
6. Helps keep the joints in flexible condition.

Precaution to be taken before doing Padmasana

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

1. Those suffering from chronic knee pain should not practice it.
2. Those getting cramps in calf-muscles should practice it cautiously.
3. After keeping one leg on the other thigh, if other leg can not be placed fully on the other thigh, do not try to put it forcefully.

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