Hasta-pada-angusta-asana steps and benefits - The Hand-Foot-Big Toe Pose

Hasta-pada-angusta-asana (The Hand-Foot-Big Toe Pose)

The Sanskrit word hasta means hand, pada means foot, and angusta means big toe therefore this is the hand-foot-big toe posture.

Instructions:

1. Sit at the ground with the legs collectively and prolonged instantly out in the front. Keep the

returned instantly, shoulders stage and head instantly. Place the hands, fingers down, flat on

pinnacle of the thighs.

2. Spread the legs as some distance aside as viable with out bending the knees.

3. Bend the left knee and area the lowest of the left foot in opposition to the internal left thigh.

Bring the left heel as near the perineum as viable. Keep the left knee at the

ground.

4. Stretch each hands instantly out in the front of you, then maintaining the returned instantly turn

slowly on the waist towards the proper aligning the hands with the proper leg.

5. Inhale slowly at the same time as elevating the hands over the pinnacle and arching the returned.

6. Exhale and slowly at the same time as bending ahead bringing the chest right all the way down to the proper thigh.

Clasp the huge toe of the proper foot with the primary finger of each hands. Hold this function

at some point of the exhaled breath.

7. Inhale slowly thru the nostrils freeing the posture at the same time as sitting up instantly.

8. Straighten the left leg and go back to the seated function defined in step 2 then

repeat the posture, this time bending the proper leg.

Comments:

The blessings of the hasta-pada-angusta-asana are just like the ones of the ugra-asana (i.e.: spinal stretch, stomach toning, gastro-intestinal stimulation). There is extra stretching of the leg that is outstretched in addition to to the groin.

Repetitions:

Repeat or 3 instances on every leg.

Health Benefits of The Hand-Foot-Big Toe Yoga Pose (Hasta-pada-angusta-asana) include:

1. It calms the mind and relieves anxiety, stress, and slight depression
2. The liver and kidneys are activated.
3. The calves and hamstrings get a terrific stretch.
4. The thighs grow to be strong.
5. The digestive gadget and the reproductive gadget are stimulated.
6. Digestion is improved.
7. Menopause and menstrual issues are reduced.