HOW TO BE HEALTHY WITH YOGA
The adventurous among you might like to try a more advanced form of this posture, known as the SHOULDER BALANCE. In this the body is held as in the Shoulderstand but the support of the arms is removed. The arms are placed alongside the body and you're then balancing on your shoulders, neck and the back of your head and the extra effort you have to employ to maintain the body in this position with no support from your hands and arms generally intensifies the effect of the posture. You will not be able to hold the SHOULDER BALANCE as candle-straight as the Shoulderstand but do the best you could and above all hold yourself still. Keep your eyes closed and your chin locked against your chest. Another variation of the SHOULDERSTAND, slightly more hard but less tricky than the Shoulder Balance is to keep the arms and hands on the floor, either pointing the same technique as your head or else extended at shoulder level, while the body is inverted. Again the extra effort needed to keep the body straight and still without supporting the back intensifies the advantages of the posture. One of the chief beneficial effects of the SHOULDERSTAND lies in the reversal of the affect of gravity on the internal organs. Few people appreciate how amazing this affect is. The body fluids tend to flow downwards and the skeleton is also subjected to constant downward displacement, and likewise the internal organs. People with jobs that entail long hours of standing are the bulk subject to varicose veins in the legs and prolapse of the viscera. In hospitals, patients suffering from these and allied ailments are placed on tilted beds so that the legs are higher than the feet. This practice, a modification of the Yoga asana I have just described, is to check the downward drag of gravity. Nervous weariness is due not only to emotional stress but also to the fact that the muscles of your back have to work long and difficult just to hold you up. By inverting your body there is an immediate respite from this strain and the overtired feeling dissolves into a pleasant feeling of relaxation. The SHOULDER-STAND therefore is an invaluable exercise not only for insomnia but for nervous fatigue, and exhausted or swollen legs. As a prolonged Shoulderstand and, for some of my older readers, even a brief one produces something of a strain and tension in the neck, the following exercise known as Sethu Bandhasana or the BRIDGE POSTURE will bring respite by relaxing the neck and at the same time exercising the muscles of the lower, middle, and upper back. It is reasonably simple, if you go carefully. |
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