What is Purna Salabhasana
Purna Salabhasana Purna-Salabhasana is a reverse posture to the Cobra Posture, which gives a backward bend to the spine.
- Values of certain asanas are maximised when done one after the other. Cobra posture activates the upper area while locust activates the lower waist down area of the body. So this asana gives maximum benefit when done after the cobra posture.
Also Know as: Full Locust Posture/ Pose, Purna Shalabha or Salabha Asana, Puran Shalabh or Purn Salabh Asan
How to start this Asana
- Lie face down on the floor on your stomach, hands stretched backwards close to the body and the legs straight.
- Making fists of the hands bring them together beneath the thighs with the wrists touching.
- Inhale as much air as you can.
- Holding your breath make your head straight and put the chin on the floor (on a folded blanket or towel).
- Tighten both the legs and lift them up as high as you can.
- Do not bend the knees.
- Remain in the same posture for a few seconds.
- Exhale and simultaneously lower the legs slowly to the floor.
- Do not drop the legs.
- By the time the legs touch the floor you should finish exhaling.
- You have completed one round of a most strenuous posture.
- Relax.
How to end this Asana
- Stay for 30 seconds to 1 minute, then release with an exhalation.
- Take a few breaths and repeat 1 or 2 times more if you like.
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Benefits of Purna Salabhasana
According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below(YR/1)
- Strengthens the muscles of the spine, buttocks, and backs of the arms and legs.
- Stretches the shoulders, chest, belly, and thighs.
- Improves posture.
- Stimulates abdominal organs.
- Helps relieve stress.
Precaution to be taken before doing Purna Salabhasana
As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below(YR/2)
- Not for the persons who have following porblems:Headache
- Serious back injury
- People with neck injuries should keep their head in a neutral position by looking down at the floor; they might also support the forehead on a thickly folded blanket.
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
Purna Salabhasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.
