Pada Hasta Asana Pose: Practice Steps (Method) Health Benefits & Precautions in English

PADA HASTA ASANA (POSTURE):

Technique:

The practice of this asana should be done on a clean and airy environment. First, join your heels and tiptoes on the floor and stand straight. Thereafter, raise your hands straight upwards. Join the hand’s fingers with each other and keep the palms towards front side. After that, bring your hands downward while exhaling and bend your upper part of the waist forwardly in a slow motion and try to touch the toes of both feet with the help of hands. Keep the knees and hands straight and stretched in this position. Stay in this position for sometimes and return in normal position slowly while inhaling. Thus, this activity should be done 10 times.

The fat person can feel difficulty in the practice of this asana so he should bend the body as much as he can bend in the beginning of this asana and try to touch the feet fingers slowly.

Special note:

The fat person can feel difficulty in the practice of this asana so he should bend the body as much as he can bend in the beginning of this asana and try to touch the feet fingers slowly.

Precaution:

The person, who has been suffering from waist pain and neck pain, should not do the practice of this asana. Any activity of this asana should not be done with jerk.

Benefits:

The practice of this asana is useful in the treatment of disorders of the spinal cord, waist, neck and feet and makes them strong. It purifies the blood and makes the blood circulation fast. It helps in making the body active and energetic. This asana is useful in reducing fat gathered near about the stomach and make the chest broad and strong. It cures diseases of the liver, spleen, kidneys and bladder and makes working capacity normal. All diseases of the waist, hands, legs, waist and knees are cured by the practice of this asana. This asana reduces obesity and makes the body well shaped.

VIPARITA PADA HASTA ASANA:

Stand straight on the floor for practice of this asana and keep your hands up. Now bend your body backwardly in a slow motion and stand on the tiptoes by raising heels and try to hold the heels with the hands. Keep the head and neck stretched downwardly and keep the weight of the whole body on the hands and tiptoes. Hands should be kept straight. Stay in this position for one minute and return in normal position slowly. Do this activity 3 times.

Special Note:

This asana is like Ustra Asana. The person feels difficulty in the practice of this asana but the regular practice of this asana daily makes it easy.

Precaution:

The person, who has been suffering from waist pain and backache, should not do the practice of this asana. Any activity of this asana should not be done with jerk because it may be the cause sprain in the neck.

Benefits:

This asana makes the spinal nerve pure and spinal cord flexible. The person remains young in much age by this asana. It is helpful in increasing height. It makes the body healthy and strong. This asana is useful in making the nerves soft, flexible and active. Pain of the head, neck, waist, back, hand, feet and disappears by this asana.