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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Yoga Guidance: Halasan (Plough Pose)















This posture also, like Sarvangasana, helps to manage hormones within the body.

Procedure for Halasan (Plough Pose):


  • Lie flat on your back with knees bent, feet flat on ground, legs together; arms are stretched alongside the body, palms press into the ground.
  • Bring knees in toward chest
  • Extend legs back over your head that the balls of the feet come back to ground behind you.
  • Clasp the hands along in front of you and straighten arms on ground.
  • Hold for three to five breaths.
  • Bend the knees, inserting the proper knee next to the proper ear and also the left knee next to the left ear.
  • Release hands and sweep them out and up, therefore hands rest next to feet, palms up.
  • Hold for three to five breaths.
  • Slowly roll the shoulders and back off to the mat, till hips and feet return to ground in their original position.

Advantages of Halasan (Plough Pose):


  • Massages the abdominal organs
  • Calms the brain
  • Reduces stress and fatigue
  • Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause
  • Makes the spine flexible, creates energy, and blood of the muscles of the rear
  • Aids the functioning of the thyroid and thymus glands so serving to retain the individual's young  physical characteristics for a extended period

Therapeutics:

  • Headache
  • Weight Loss
  • Backache
  • Infertility
  • Insomnia
  • Sinusitis

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