Yoga Mudrasana
Posture
This asana is also known as balasana The name comes from the Sanskrit words bala meaning "child" and asana (आसन) meaning "posture" or "seat" .
Procedure
- Sit in Padmasana or sit on your heels. Keeping your hips on the heels, bend forward, and lower your forehead to the floor.
- Keep the arms alongside your body with hands on the floor, palms facing up. (If this is not comfortable, you can place one fist on top of another and rest your forehead on them.
- Gently press your chest on the thighs.
- Hold.
- Slowly come up to sit on the heels, uncurling vertebra by vertebra and relax.
Benefits
- This pose gently streches the hips thighs and ankles .
- This also relieves back and neck pain when done with head and torso supported .
- This pose calms the brain and relieves the tension and stress to such a great extent and it is even said that if someone is going for suicide and you make him perform this pose then he will change his idea of suicide because of the stress busting quality of this pose
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