We often see people complaining about backache and stiffness of joints. Attributable to our irregular seating habits, our labor-intensive occupations or old age, it is quite a syndrome nowadays. Yoga, however, has remedies for all your problems. The Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana is one such perfect exercise for relieving you off your back problems. However, before you start practicing Bhujangasana, you need to master the basics.
In this article, we’ve narrated all the steps of the Cobra Pose, its therapeutic benefits and precautions that you need to take for avoiding any hiccups.
Steps Involved
1. Lie flat on the floor on your stomach and stretch your legs backward – almost similar to what you do in Savasana. Spread your hands under your shoulders and bend your elbows.
2. Apply pressure on your feet, thighs and genitals so that your lower body maintains perfect contact with the floor.
3. While inhaling, straighten your arms and slowly lift your chest off the floor. Do not try to go beyond the height or strain level that is too much for your pubis and legs to bear. After regular practice, you may start bending your back more than you usually do.
4. Press your tailbone against your pubis while narrowing your hip points and firming your buttocks.
5. Next, inhale and push your side ribs forward. Make sure that you don’t puff your front ribs forward.
6. Finally, try to be in this position for 15 to 30 seconds.
Benefits
1. The Cobra Pose helps you strengthen your spine and provides necessary stretch to your lungs, shoulders and abdomen.
2. A perfect yoga pose figure conscious people, Bhujangasana firms buttocks, metabolizes abdominal organs and helps relieve fatigue and stress.
3. Aside from soothing the sciatica, this pose also opens your heart and lungs.
4. Especially beneficial for people suffering with asthma, the cobra pose maintains perfect body temperature, increases immunity and help you awaken your kundalini.
Precautions
1. People with back injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, headache and expecting mothers should avoid this yoga pose.
2. Avoid overdoing the backbend.
3. Those who are not flexible enough to do this yoga pose may consider using a metal folding chair.
