Salabhasana or she Locust Posture
your sides, palms either clenched or flat on the floor. While inhaling deeply raise your right leg as high as you possibly can, pressing into the ground with your clenched fists or flattened palms to give yourself more leverage. I have demon strated the correct position in figure 22, page 77. Hold this position as you complete your inhalation and then slowly lower your leg as you exhale. Repeat with the other leg. Keep the raised leg as straight as you could and perform this asana six periods in all, three periods with each leg. When you have practiced with alternate legs for a few days try the full Locust Posture which involves the raising of both legs simultaneously as in figure 21. This variation of the Locust Posture is much more hard but the added effort involved greatly increases the advantages of this valuable posture. It has the added benefit of toning and strengthening the muscles and organs of the abdomen as well as bringing respite from our two antagonists of this chapter. When you could perform the full Locust Posture hold it for as long as you comfortably can while holding your breath. Repeat up to six periods a day. The next posture I would like you to try is deceptively simple. Called the FROG POSE it's performed simply by kneeling on the floor, knees together and feet apart, and then sitting on the floor between your feet. Simple did I say? I can hear you saying it's impossible. Not only is it possible but if you look at figure 53 you will observe it in its extreme form when the body is bent backwards with the legs in this position until the head touches the floor. This is called the Kneeling Bridge Posture so if this is feasible how much more easy is the simple Frog Pose. So do practice it and your sciatica will steadily succumb to its nerve tugging, muscle toning persuasion. I would like to refer you once again to chapter five in which 1 have described the Yogamudra. This exercise has very a lot benefits and not the least of these is its effect on the spinal column and the muscles on either side of it. For the respite of lumbago you would do well to practice it until you could perform it to perfection and hold it for some time. Remember to do deep Yoga breathing while in this position and straighten up as soon as you commence to feel the slightest strain. In the two complaints with which this chapter is concerned it's of essential importance that you do not strain any nerve or muscle. Once again I reiterate the words ‘slowly and gently’. I cannot mention the Yogamudra twice in this book without telling you of the spiritual values it confers. Although we are primarily concerned in this book with improving the health let us never forget that the practice of Hatha Yoga cannot but have a beneficial effect on the mind and spirit. Yogamudra, one of the fundamental Yoga asanas, is essentially a purifying exercise, both of the system and of the mind. Students in the advanced stages of Yoga remain in this position for as long as an hour or more. I am not asking you to attempt such a feat of tolerance but I would like you to experience the effects of just a few quiet moments spent in sitting in this posture, when you could do it, that is. I am concious that for some of you this will take some time. But as you straighten up you will experience a new clarity of vision, a new awareness, and a heigthened sense of power and well-being. You will, as you come to learn more and more Yoga asanas, adopt your own particular favourites and I have heard from a lot people that Yogamudra is one of the the bulk popular Yoga asanas. Not an easy one but how worthy it's of your time, your patience and your endeavour. And now to end this chapter I will describe one of the the bulk beautiful and dramatic postures in the entire Yoga range. Strikingly graceful, it's worthy of a place in the the bulk classical of ballets. Called ANJANEYASANA or in English the WING POSTURE it makes the human body into a living poem of static grace and at the same time limbers up the muscles of the lower back, the thighs, and the shoulders. But as it's one of the the bulk beautiful so it's one of the the bulk difficult to perform perfectly, though beginners would be able to perform it in a modified technique with little difficulty. I include it in this book because it's far too beautiful to be left out, and also because to sufferers from lumbago and sciatica it's of amazing and lasting benefit. |
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