Matsyasana - The Fish Pose

"Matsya" means "fish" in Sanskrit.The special feature of this asana is that one can swim in water like a fish but without any use of the hands and legs, the need is to perform this asana and make a posture as suggested.

Sequence:

1. Lie down straight on the floor with the knees touching the ground and come in position of Padmasana to make a footlock.
2. Lean hack gradually on your elbows and lie flat on your back with the support of the hands and elbows.
3. Slowly take the hands backward towards the head with palms kept flat on the floor under the respective shoulders in the reverse direction.
4. Start pushing down the knees and palms with chest and abdomen raised forward, lift up the shoulders, back and hips from the floor, body balanced with your hands. Fold the body during this process to make an arch of the spine and, simultaneously, bend your head and neck backward to the extent you feel comfortable with crown of your head kept perpendicularly on the floor.
5. Bring your hands forward and grasp the back of your thighs with your palms.
6. Take help of the elbows for leverage, lift up your chest and abdomen and, accentuating the arch of the spine, keep the crown of your head in position on the ground.
7. Fold the index finger, the middle finger and thumb of each hand in the form of hooks and catch in each of them the opposite big toes and pull them gently.
8. Stay in this position as long as you feel comfortable, take deep breathes rhythmically.
9. Gradually come back in the original position of Padmasana flowing reverse order sequence.

Benefits:

• Matsyasana gives strength to the spinal column.
• Regular practice of this asana helps cervical and dorsal portions to get elasticity and become more flexible. If the spine has become habitually curved due to our wrong sitting posture, it comes back to original straight position if this asana is performed regularly.
• The chest expands resulting in improving lungs efficiency due to abundant supply of fresh air.

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Halasana - The Plough Pose

"Hala" means "Plough" in Sanskrit. The body position maintained in this posture gives an impression of the Indian plough and that is wht it is called 'Halasana'.

Sequence:

• Fold the body in Ardha Halasana posture without taking help of the hands.
• Breathe out slowly, push the palms against the ground and lift up the posterior, hips and lower back off the ground and, simultaneously, lower and move your legs right over your head without bending the knees to the extent the toes touch the ground at the nearest point beyond your head.
• Breathe in and take free inhalations and exhalations.
• Slide away the toes together straight along the floor, bending the spine to the highest extent to form a curve.
• Balance your body in this position and breathe out fully.
• Breathe deeply few times.
• Breathe out slowly, keep the legs straight and slide away the toes together straight along the ground moving away from the head to the extent the lower parts of the thighs are brought opposite the forehead.
• Breathe in and follow normal inhalations and exhalations.
• Push the chest against the chin and maintain a tight chin-lock.
• Raise your arms and move them gradually and make sure they rest on the ground on any side of your head.
• Maintain a finger-lock and keep the clasped hands encircling the top of your head.
• Breathe deeply few times.
• Breathe out; slide the toes forward to the maximum distance from the head as possible.
• Ensure the legs are straight and together.
• Make sure the knees are stiff and the toes pushing the floor.
• Stay in this position to the extent you feel comfortable, breathing at normal pace.
• Bring the arms to their original position on the respective sides.
• Breathe in, bring back the legs together to the perpendicular position ensuring knees are not bent.
• Breathe out, bring down the legs to the extent heels touch the floor.
• Breathe normally and feel comfortable in Sarvasana.

Caution:

• It is recommended to try this asana on an empty stomach.
• If you notice any persistent pain in the liver or spleen or feel extraordinary pressure on the abdomen, immediately stop this asana.
• Patients of hernia, high blood pressure or heart ailments must avoid it.
• Women should not practice it during menstruation and after the third month of pregnancy.

Benefits:

• If practiced regularly, Halasana cures the tension in the back, neck and legs and treats different types of rheumatism.
• It reduces pain in the shoulders and the waist.
• It helps to get rid of belching, gastritis, flatulence and enteroptosis.
• It also cutres headache, bronchitis and asthma.
• Disorders of the uterus and ovaries and menstrual ailments are treated effectively by the regular practice of this asana.
• Halasana stretches and exercises the posterior muscles of the entire body. The asana makes strong the intercostal muscles. The asana improves efficiency of the heart muscle and thus makes the heart healthy and increases circulation.
• The muscles at the back of the neck are stretched and relaxed.
• The alternate contraction, relaxation, stretching and the slow unwinding of the spinal column work on holistic approach to exercise for the different areas. If practiced regularly under guidance, the entire spine gets elasticity and becomes flexible and the spinal nerves, muscles and ligaments are toned up due to additional supply of arterial blood.
• This asana gives thyroid and parathyroid a better health and improves their functioning
• It also improves the functioning of the gonad glands.
• The asana is a boon for the Musicians and teachers because this asana works as good massage for the throat. The throat gets cleared up after the practice and the neck muscles become strong.
• If anybody wants to burn extra fat in the chest, lower abdomen, hips, thighs, legs and the backside then it is advised to practice this asana regularly. It helps to get rid of excessive weight and trim a flabby abdomen.
• It teaches us to follow a correct standing posture and grow toour full stature.

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Sarvangasana - The All-Parts Pose

"Sarva" means "all" and "Anga" means "part" in Sanskrit. Almost all parts of the body are involved and the asana works on all parts effectively.

Sequence:

1. Lie down straight on your back positioning arms on the sides and palms turned down.
2. Bring the legs close to each other, with heels and big toes kept together.
3. Inhale and exhale at regular pace and relax the whole body.
4. Push down the ground with the palms and elbows and ensure the knees kept straight.
5. Breathe in and during the process, lift up the legs together to the extent they are perpendicular to the floor.
6. Breathe out and during the process, increase the pressure of your palms and elbows against the floor and lift up your hips and lower back against the floor simultaneously bringing your legs towards your head.
7. Ensure the palms resting beneath the hips and prop up the trunk and legs.
8. Keep moving the palms higher on the trunk, simultaneously pushing the hips and the small of the back higher and lift up the whole trunk against the ground to the extent it is vertical. During the process, bring the legs also back to the vertical position.
9. Ensure the palms resting at the back of the ribs and balance the lifted trunk and legs using palms, forearms and elbows.
10. Keep moving the palms further higher and higher, lift up the hips and legs more to the extent trunk and legs are in a straight line.
11. Push the chest forward towards the chin to make a chin-lock.
12. Focus your attention on the big toes and maintain the balance.
13. 1.Inhale deeply and make a rhythmic sound and stay in this posture for about three minutes.
14. Come back gradually in the original position following the reverse order.
15. Deeply inhale and exhale few times and then breathe as usual.
16. Get relaxed totally in Sarvangasana.

Caution:

• Patients of cardiovascular disorders or high blood pressure are recommended not to attempt this asana.
• Do not try the asana if you are suffering from cold and your nostrils are blocked or if you have a thyroid disorder.
• Patients of any kind of eye trouble must not do this asana.
• Youths who have not crossed fourteen years age should not practice this.
• Women must avoid this asana during menstruation as the blood released at this time is often very acidic and a back-flow may result in damage of the womb.
• Avoid practicing this asana if you feel dizzy or have palpitation while performing it.

Benefits:

• Sarvangasana basically improves the functioning of thyroid and parathyroid glands, which are responsible for regular functioning of important organs of the body and synchronize the metabolic processes. A thyroid working properly combats nervous tension. Signs of old age, due to the faulty functioning of the thyroid, are counteracted by performing this asana regularly.
• It also increases efficiency of the pituitary and thyrnus glands and functioning of the prostate gland improves.
• It keeps away the unwanted wrinkling of the face and premature ageing.
• The inverted position of the body in Sarvangasana, in which the feet and legs are kept higher than the heart, results in improved blood supply to the thorax, neck and head due to the reversal of the gravitational pull on the blood flow. Enhanced blood supply to the brain, the scalp, face, the organs of the chest, the roots of the cranial and spinal nerves, and other vital organs and glands improves overall health of the body. Most of the blood flow related problems are solved along with increasing the free flow of hormones into the blood. The blood flow in the reverse direction improves the efficiency of the heart.
• If done on regular basis, this asana helps to make the vertebral column supple. A stiff spine can be made pliable and minor defects in its curvature are corrected. The spinal nerves are also toned up.
• The asana makes muscles of the upper arms, shoulders, neck and thighs stronger.
• The inversion of the body helps to get rid of congestion of the organs in the lower part of the abdomen and the pelvis.
• The liver and kidneys work more effectively.
• It helps in proper digestion and regular pancreatic secretion.
• It helps to get rid of extra fat around the abdomen, waist and hips.
• This asana prevents sagging of breasts in women.
• It regularizes working of the throat vessels and the vocal cords. The voice is improved due to the pressure kept on the neck and the massaging of the larynx and pharynx and all the organs of the throat.
• It improves the eyesight.
• Persons who work in conditions where long hours of standing are required can practice this asana as this posture relaxes the legs. A regular practice of this asana controls the weight of the body because of increased efficiency of the thyroid gland.
• Patients of palpitation, bronchitis, tonsillitis, headache, insomnia and epilepsy must practice this asana to cure the disease.
• The asana helps to cure goiter.
• One can get benefit from the pain in the back of the neck following this asana.
• It cures hernia effectively and helps to get rid of bleeding piles and urinary disorders.
• This asana treats leprosy in very effective manner.
• Sarvangasana helps to combat nervous fatigue and exhaustion.
• The regular practice of Sarvangasana keeps away cold and other nasal disturbances by clearing congestion in the sinus cavities.

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Yoga Can Cure Impotency

Yoga, the buzz word of today, the scientific methods, the asanas, the poses, so much to help a person live a stress free and healthy life. In the fast moving technological age, yoga is the solution to many health problems. Being a regular yoga follower, helps to cute many ailments without medication and live a balanced life. The astonishing fact is that yoga can even treat impotency if one follows some specific yoga poses regularly.

Impotency in males has been in existence since ages and as a disease it indirectly affects the female society. Although impotence does not affect physically that much, but on mental level it affects drastically as a person feels mentally stressed because of it. In case a person is not involved in a sexual relationship, impotence can greatly reduce his chances of actually being into one. On the other hand, if the man is already involved physically with a woman, the relationship suffers stress and becomes difficult to survive.

Most of the underlying reasons associated with impotency are result of our lifestyles that significantly increase the impotence or sterility in men. Impotence is medically described as a condition where a man’s penis is unable to get erection during sexual intercourse, the reason behind is the inadequate blood flow to the male reproductive system. A variety of medications are prescribed to cure this problem, but it has been noticed practically that yoga can treat impotence in better way. Medicines can treat but generally side effects become nightmare, but with yoga, there are no side effects.

Few psychological factors associated with impotency are stress or anxiety as it negatively affects the relaxation that is absolutely necessary for erection. Yoga helps to get rid of this problem naturally. Yoga helps to attain relaxation and stress-busting. While stress is the main culprit to erectile dysfunction, yoga helps to diminish stress and thus cures impotence. Besides working as a treatment to impotence yoga also improves overall health.

Males suffering from impotence must have faith in Yoga’s healing power and with the traditional techniques taught in the Kama Yogi, regain their lost vigor and energy. It is recommended to follow yoga regularly to get best results for ever.

Here are a few asanas that could help you to overcome impotence

• Dirga Pranayama
• Surya Namaskaram
• Pawanmuktasana
• Bhujangasana
• Kandasana
• Dhanurasana
• Sarvangasana
• Halasana

However, the results must be expected only when all these yoga poses are practiced regularly for about a month since yoga works slowly. One should keep in mind that the poses are practiced with the help of expert yoga teacher.