Shalabha-asana - The Locust or Grasshopper Posture
The Sanskrit phrase Shalabha method locust or grasshopper. There is a variant of this posture referred to as the viparita-shalabhaasana. The Sanskrit phrase viparita method "reverse." This is an superior variant now no longer protected here.
Instructions:
1. Lie at the belly with the pinnacle became to at least one facet and the hands along the frame with arms dealing with upward.
2. Turn the pinnacle and vicinity your chin at the ground. Slide your fingers beneathneath your thighs, with the arms pressed lightly towards the pinnacle of your thighs.
3. Inhale slowly after which boost the pinnacle, chest, and legs off the ground as excessive as viable. Tilt your head as a long way returned as viable. Keep your feet, knees, and thighs pressed together.
4. Starting on the pinnacle of the pinnacle and running your manner right all the way down to the feet, deliver your interest to every a part of your frame, consciously enjoyable it earlier than intending directly to the next.
5. Remain withinside the posture whilst preserving the breath. You can assist your legs through urgent the fingers upward towards your thighs.
6. Hold the posture for so long as you could maintain the inhaled breath then slowly return the legs, chest, and head to the ground whilst exhaling.
7. Remove your hands from beneathneath your thighs and vicinity the hands along your frame. Turn your head to the facet and rest.
Comments:
The shalabha-asana has many advantages. Besides strengthening the muscle mass of the top legs and decrease returned, it stimulates the belly and intestines supporting to alleviate gastrointestinal gas, strengthens the bladder, and stretches the backbone.
To help elevating the legs as excessive as viable maintain the returned of the fingers resting towards the ground whilst pushing the legs upward with the fingers. As you get higher at this posture and growth the power of you legs you could boost the fingers absolutely off the ground so your legs are raised unsupported. This will increase the advantages of the shalabha-asana.
Repetitions:
Hold this posture for so long as you could maintain the inhaled breath. Repeat the shalabha-asana 3 times.
Health Benefits Of Practising Shalabhasana:
- Helpful in sciatica and back ache.
- Helps in putting off useless fats round abs, hips, waist and thighs.
- Strengthens and provides flexibility to returned muscle mass and backbone.
- Curing cervical spondylitis and spinal wire ailments.
- Toughens wrists, hips, thighs, legs, buttocks, decrease stomach and diaphragm.
- Balances Manipura chakra
- Stimulates body
- Develops self-confidence
- Improves functioning of inner organs
- Regulates acid-base stability in body
- Relieves depression
- Encourages slim figure
- Improves posture
Precautions:
- People with extreme returned troubles must exercise the pose slowly.
- Do NOT exercise this pose when you have a complicated arthritis of the hips or a returned pain.
- Avoid preserving breath on this pose when you have excessive blood pressure, glaucoma and coronary heart problem.
- Pregnant ladies must absolutely keep away from this pose
- Do NOT exercise this pose when you have a headache or migraine, neck or spine injury.
