Friday, September 7, 2007

Yoga for Back Pain (Part19) - Dhanurasana

Dhanurasana

Dhanu = bow,

Dhanu has other Sanskrita synonyms too, Kodanda for example

I am not giving the Saral Dhanurasana before this Dhanurasana here.

For Saral Dhanurasana visit this page. Here one just holds the legs; and the knees are not raised from the ground. Perfect for those who are just beginning in the Yoga voyage. And for people for whom years of unuse of the spine has made it so stiff that raising the legs would be a trouble. I have even seen people who find even holding the legs quite difficult. In which case Bhujangasana is the best way to start to gradually proceed to Dhanurasana.



Drishti: Bhru-Madhye( middle of the eye brows)

Focus: Waist

Breathing: in while raising the body from the ground, normal, deep and slow while holding the pose, and out while lowering the body to the original position.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Really it's very nice to have your ideas regarding Dhanurasana that helps to most of the people to pretend in their life's in doing it well, Thanks for the effective share...