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Yoga is a complete science that harmoniously unites the body, mind, and spirit. As a result, it creates a significant difference in one’s behavior, thoughts, and attitude. Daily practice of yoga increases strength, flexibility, sensitivity, intuition, and awareness. Moreover, this is not true only for humans but applies to animals too. Animals are strong, agile, flexible and have a great level of awareness. Hence, there are numerous yoga poses named after animals.

As the early yogis were influenced by what was around them, it’s only natural to have yoga poses influenced by animals. As a benefit, it has also made it easy for parents to make to motivate kids into practicing yoga with animal names.

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अथ योगानुशासनम् अर्थात् याेग एक अनुशासन है, जिससे मनुष्य अपने आत्मस्वरूप में स्थित होता है।

🙏🙏What is bhujangaasan and benefits 🙏🙏

The name comes from two Sanskrit words, bhujanga meaning ‘Snake/Cobra’ and asana meaning ‘Posture/Exercise..

🙏🙏🙏 guidelines to perform Bhujangasana properly:🙏🙏🙏

Lie down flat on the floor on your stomach. Place your palms flat on the ground directly under your shoulders. Bend your elbows straight back and hug them into your sides.
Pause for a moment looking straight down at your mat with your neck in a neutral position. Anchor your p***c bone to the floor.
Inhale to lift your chest off the floor. Roll your shoulders back and keep your lower ribs on the floor. Make sure your elbows continue hugging your sides. Don't let them wing out to either side.
Keep your neck neutral; don’t crank it up. Your gaze should stay on the floor.
Hold the position anywhere between 30-45 seconds, breathing easily.

🙏🙏🙏Bhujangasana can be fruitful for your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. 🙏🙏🙏

Bhujangasana works like a charm on your back muscles. Our modern lifestyles tend to stiffen the muscles of the upper body, and this yoga asana helps strengthen the spine.
You can also get toned buttocks by performing this asana daily.

Bhujangasana for Back Muscles
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It will definitely stimulate abdominal organs and improve your digestion. Moreover, it will burn abdominal fat, helping you achieve your fitness goals.
In Bhujangasana or Cobra Pose, your chest lifts, which enhances your blood flow as well as affects your heart. Therefore, it also helps relieve stress and fatigue by eliminating negative emotions.
It helps in opening the heart and lungs which is best to prevent lung congestion prevalent especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bhujangasana for Heart and Lungs
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This asana can be therapeutic for asthma patients as it helps in opening the rib cage and expanding the chest.
There can be an improvement in the reproductive systems of both, males and females.
With the regular practice of Bhujangasana, irregular menstrual cycles can be rectified. It will also relieve menstrual cramps and pain

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# for Weight Loss # # #

Asanas Poses to Help You Lose Weight

A five-thousand-year-old transcription by the Indus valley civilization on fragile palm leaves has paved the way to an innovative weight loss therapy. Yoga was mentioned in the Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns, the Rigveda.

Researchers have traced yoga to over a thousand years ago, and its rich history is divided into periods of innovation, practice, and development.

Yoga was refined and developed by the Rishis and Brahmans who documented their training in the Upanishads. This practice was later developed over several years to what now is practiced as Yoga.

The discipline has 5 basic principles:

Exercise
Diet
Breathing
Relaxation
Meditation
Table of Contents
Is Yoga good for Weight Loss?
Yoga Asanas for Weight Loss
Power Yoga for Weight Loss
Summary
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)
Is Yoga Poses Good for Weight Loss?
The development of yoga has benefited many people in losing weight in a healthy way. Yoga for weight loss is a debatable topic. Many people believe that Yoga alone does not promote weight loss. Yoga, when combined with healthy eating, has proven beneficial as it helps to lose weight along with keeping your mind and body healthy. Yoga increases your mindfulness and how you relate to your body. You will start seeking out food that is healthy instead of binging on food that can increase your fat accumulation.

Losing weight has two important aspects, healthy eating, and exercise. Yoga poses for weight loss demand these aspects.

Yoga is not just about a few poses that strengthen you. It has more benefits to offer, such as:
Increased flexibility
Improved respiration
Improved energy and vitality
Balanced metabolism
Improved athletic health
Increased muscle tone
Improved cardio health
Weight reduction
Stress management
Stress can have a devastating effect on your body and mind. It can reveal itself in the form of pain, anxiety, insomnia, and the inability to concentrate. Most times, stress is the main cause of weight gain. Yoga can help you cope with stress.

Physical benefits of Yoga, combined with stress management, help a person to lose weight and maintain good physical and mental health.

Yoga Asanas for Weight Loss
Yoga does not always result in weight loss immediately as these poses are simple. These Yoga poses focus mostly on building body flexibility, improving concentration, and building your muscle tone. Once your body gets used to these asanas, you will begin to practice Yoga asanas for weight loss.

Some of the Yoga asanas and yoga tips for weight loss are as given below.

1. Chaturanga Dandasana – Plank Pose
Chaturanga dandasana is the best way to strengthen your core. As simple as it looks, its benefits are immense.

It is only when you are in the pose that you start to feel its intensity on your abdominal muscles.

2. Virabhadrasana – Warrior Pose
Toning your thighs and shoulders, as well as improving your concentration has become more accessible and interesting with the Warrior II pose. The more you hold that pose, the better the results you gain. With just a few minutes of Virabhadrasana, you will get tighter quads.

Warrior III pose is made to improve your balance along with toning your back end, legs, and arms. It also helps to tone your tummy and give you a flat belly if you contract your abdominal muscles while you hold the position.

Virabhadrasana for weight loss

3. Trikonasana – Triangle pose
The trikonasana helps to improve digestion as well as reduce the fat deposited in the belly & waist. It stimulates and improves blood circulation in the entire body. The lateral motion of this asana helps you burn more fat from the waist and build more muscles in the thighs and hamstrings.

Though this pose does not make your muscles shake as others do, it does give you the benefit that other asanas do. It also improves balance & concentration.

Trikonasana

4. Adho Mukha Svanasana – Downward Dog pose
Adho Mukha Svanasana tones your whole body with a little extra attention to specific muscles.

It helps to strengthen your arms, thighs, hamstring and back. Holding this pose and concentrating on your breathing engages your muscles and tones them, as well as improves your concentration and blood circulation.

Adho Mukha Svanasana helps with weight loss

5. Sarvangasana – Shoulder Stand Pose
Sarvangasana comes with multiple benefits, from increasing your strength to improving digestion. But it is known for boosting metabolism and balancing thyroid levels.

Sarvangasana or the shoulder stand strengthens the upper body, abdominal muscles, and legs, improves the respiratory system, and improves sleep.

Sarvangasana

6. Sethu Bandha Sarvangasana – Bridge pose
Yet another asana with multiple benefits is the Sethu Bandha Sarvangasana or Bridge pose. It is excellent for glutes, thyroid as well as weight loss.

The Bridge pose improves muscle tone, digestion, regulates hormones, and improves thyroid levels. It also strengthens your back muscles and reduces back pain.

Sethu Bandha Sarvangasana

7. Parivrtta Utkatasana – Twisted Chair pose
The Parivrtta Utkatasana is also called the Yoga’s version of the squat. But you must know that it is a little more intense and tones the abdominal muscles, works the quads and glutes.

The asana also improves the lymph system and the digestive system. It is a great way to lose weight.

Parivrtta Utkatasana

8. Dhanurasana – Bow Pose
Are you looking for the best way to lose that belly fat? Dhanurasana helps massage the abdominal organs, improves digestion, and strengthens the thighs, chest, and back. It stretches your whole body, strengthens and tones your muscles with improved blood circulation.

Dhanurasana helps one lose weight

9. Surya Namaskara – Sun Salutation Pose
The Surya Namaskara or Sun Salutation does more than warm up the muscles and get the blood flowing. It stretches and tones most of the major muscles, trims the waist, tones the arms, stimulates the digestive system, and balances the metabolism.

Surya Namaskar is a whole package of good health and the best way to lose weight.

*🙏*Steps of Anulom vilom Pranayama*🙏*

Anulom Vilom Pranayama is very easy to do, first of all, close your eyes and sit in Padmasana and rest your hands on your knees.
Close the right nostril with the right thumb. Inhale slowly through the left nostril, inhale the oxygen as much as you can, this will fill your lungs with air.
anulom vilom step

Remove your thumb from your right nostril, as you remove your thumb from right nostril just exhale.
When you exhale use your middle finger to close your left nostril then inhale with our right nostril and remove the thumb from the right nostril then exhale. Repeat this process for 5 minutes.
Be focused and concentrate on your breathing.

🙏🙏Benefits of Anulom vilom Pranayama 🙏🙏

It helps to cure mental problems like Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Tension, etc.
Most beneficial for breathing-related problems like (Bronchitis, Asthma), etc.
Improve the working of the lungs.
Best breathing technique for boosting your memory (Makes your brain sharper).
Improves your immune system, so it cures general issues like cough & cold.
Without any doubt, Anulom Vilom is the most suitable Pranayama for all.
Alternate nostril breathing is an ideal breathing technique for maintaining your heart healthy.
nadishodhan pranayama

An alternate nostril breathing technique is the ideal breathing exercise for a healthy heart. it is also known as Nadi Shodhana pranayama. Nadi Shodhana is the next level of Anulom Vilom. In Anulom Vilom Pranayama we inhale and exhale, but in Nadi Shodhana pranayama we hold (kumbhaka or retention) our breath for a second or minute than exhale.

*Bhastrika Pranayama*

, (How to do Bhastrika and Its Benefits)

Bhastrika Pranayama
When we do any physical exercise our body demands more oxygen, which signals the heart to pump faster, thus raising the heartbeat. But did you know that when you do Bhastrika Pranayama, you pump even more quantity of oxygen even without the body not asking for it. Bhastrika Pranayama is the process of rapid inhalation and exhalation which gives a boost to the body and hence is aptly called the yogic breath of fire. So, the next time you feel like your body needs energy, try Bhastrika Pranayama.

@@@@ Steps to do Bhastrika Pranayama
Sit in vajrasana or sukhasana (cross-legged position).
(Pranayama can be more effective in vajrasana as your spine is erect and the diaphragmatic movement is better.)
Makes a fist and fold your arms, placing them near your shoulders.
Inhale deeply, raise your hands straight up and open your fists.
Exhale slightly forcefully, bring your arms down next to your shoulders and close your fists.
Continue for 20 breaths.
Relax with palms on your thighs.
Take a few normal breaths.
Continue for two more rounds.

(Benefits of Bhastrika Pranayama)

**Great for energizing the body and mind.
Since we maximize our lung capacity while doing it, the pranayama helps remove toxins and impurities.
It helps in the sinus, bronchitis, and other respiratory issues.
Improved awareness, perceptive power of senses.
It helps balance doshas.
Contraindications
Make sure you practice it on an empty stomach.
Pregnant women should avoid it..
Do it at your own pace. If you feel dizzy, increase the duration of the breaks.
If you suffer from hypertension and panic disorders, then do it under the supervision of a teacher.

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