Shirshasana ( Head Stand ) :: Yoga pose

Shirshasana ( Head Stand )

Along my way to achieve the perfectness in each Aasnas, I have decided to share my experiance and benifits of that pose with you guys.
Please make sure before trying any of these aasana you properly do your warm up and if you have any injuries do't even give a try :)


Some people may think what's there in the name of the Asana ?..
Trust me if you understand the real meaning of the Asana then it will be easier for you to perform and understand the benifits of the same.


Shirshasana || Shirsha - The meaning of Shirsha is Head. Assana - Stands for Pose. ||
This Asana is well know by the name Head stand.


You must have heard a story about diffrent kind of torture.
When I was growing up I heard many times that military/Polic use this technique of hanging upside down this is very similar to our head stand .
I really do't know the actal reason of using that technique but below is my guess about why they use it.
, which causes improved brain function (intelligence and memory) and increased vitality and confidence.
1. It circulation to the brain which causes improved brain function (intelligence and memory) and helps the truth come out.
2. If you are not yogi then It will make you uncomfortable and in return person will offer to break the silance and will get the sound sleep.

Bats are the only mammals which sleeps up side down. Only because their legs are not strong hence they can't stand on their legs that's why they use downward gravitational pull.




Below are some of the main benifits of Shirshasana.
1. Improves the brain function( Improved memory).
It's very obvious that if you do this pose because of gravitational force blood will flow towards your head.

2. Backpain
This Asana will make the spine allignmnet correct naturally if done correctly. Over long term it makes nervous system stronger.



There are lots of other benifits I will update this post with more benifits sometime.


There are diffrent variation of this pose the main concept stay the same.
I have been practising this Asana from last 10 days and I have reached to the level where I can stay in this pose comfortably for 10 min.

My Idea goal for this pose is to achive advance level in this pose where I can riase my head from the groud with the help of hand. ( I will be posting pic once I reach there !!! )
This Asana is also called as "Raja of the Asana" ( King of all poses) .
If you are new to this pose I would suggest to try Tripod first and slowly go towards Hand Stand. Take the support of wall if you need support but after 2-3 tries this pose will give you s much confidance that you will be able to do this with out any help.


Stay tunned for more Asana's!!

Sleepless in salt lake city

The title of this blog is stolen from one of my friends blog...

It seems my new time management skills are working and within weeks time I was able to get into my new daily routine.

After four hours of productive reading on Saturday morning I was suppose to go for marathon practice, but it's snowing in Salt Lake City. Can somebody remind Mr.Weather that it's spring time ? I dropped my practice and decided to update my blog.

Meditation, Yoga, Gym, running, Hiking , reading, Guitar, Rock climbing , Volunteering for non-profit animal organizations etc etc... and list goes on ... these are the things which are going on in my life currently and they are eating most of my time other than work time.

I am running short of time to achieve my goals in my life.I enjoy doing all these activities which I mentioned, but sometimes I think that I should not always do the activities which makes me happy. I need to focus on achieving my goals, for that I have to prepare myself to sacrifice some of the activities. It's really very hard :)

Other option is reducing 9% of sleep time and increasing 9% of meditation time which will give me an extra hour for my studies.....calculate how much hour I sleep ? haha well this is typical percentage problem for GMAT.

After increasing my practice in the meditation I am experiencing the benefits of it. This is helping me to become more organized and focused in my life. Hopefully if time permits I will be writing another post separately for Meditation in coming days.


Caio

Back in action - Power of Yoga.

How my lifestyle is changing ? to answer this question I decided to recollect how was my typical day before 5-10-15 yrs ? It's changing a lot ..

When I talk to my Mom & Dad first question they always ask me is r u doing Yoga & Pranayam regularly ? I tell them No, I am doing swimming & Other exercise. Dad always encourages( In fact sometimes forces) me to do it regularly.

When I was growing up in Latur I use to go to "Arya Samaz" for doing Yoga & Pranayam. That reminds me all the fun me & my friends had there.. How can I forget those prices which I won in Yoga.

Finally I have decided to start doing Yoga again. I started attending different Yoga classes in SLC . I found that I was sweating in the class(I never use to sweat while doing Yoga) & It was real fast. It was more of a stretch than Yoga. After doing some research I found that now there are different type of Yoga's ( Don't ask me how many types are there :) )



More to come ....next week :)