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How To Prepare For The Peacock Pose

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  Also known as Pinch Mayurasana, the peacock pose is a challenging arm balance that can be done at the wall. To master it you need to have flexibility of the upper back muscles. You also need to have upper body strength. To do the pose you need to have a yoga mat, belt and strap  how to do mayurasana step by step . Once you have these things you should now start preparing for the full peacock pose. The best way of preparing for the asana is by ensuring that you create flexibility in the trapezius, rhomboids, lattisimus, and back muscles. Here you need to use a folding chair. You should place your chair on your yoga mat and then kneel in front of the chair while interlacing your hands and placing them on the chair. You should then move your knees back until your back is in a straight line. While pressing the outer edges of your hands and arms into the chair, you should move your shoulder blades towards your waist and as a result create flexibility in the upper back. Once you have succe

Paschimottanasana - Seated Forward Bend, Procedure and Benefit

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  1. Get in to Dandasana Pose. 2. While inhaling bring both your hands above your head  ardha baddha padma paschimottanasana contraindications . 3. Spine should be erect and the tail bone should move outside (in a concave form). 4. As you exhale, bend forward extend the hands and catch your big toes. Hold the right toe with your right thumb and index and middle fingers. Likewise hold your left big toe with the left thumb and index and middle fingers. 5. Now while inhaling, extend the spine and try to keep the back concave. 6. Now again exhale, bend and widen your elbows and thereby using them as levers bring your forehead to the knees and rest your elbow joint on the floor. Stay in that position for 5 to 10 mins with normal breathing. For a few, even to touch the big toe with their fingers without bending the knee will be very difficult. Nothing to worry about, you have just spoiled your body for a long time without giving it the luxury of being flexible. Regular practice will help you

An Ancient Martial Art - Kalaripayattu

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Kalaripayattu is the ancient martial art of the State. It is considered as the forerunner of Karate & Kung-fu. The Kalari is treated as the temple of learning. Age-old traditions and customs are still practiced inside the Kalari. The Gurukkal system consists of rigorous physical training besides training in self-discipline. The weapons used were the sword, Dagger, Shield, short sticks, spears etc. The co-ordination of the body and mind is given maximum importance in this art  kalaripayattu training . The Orient's treasure trove, a gift to the modern world and the mother of all martial arts. Legend traces the 3000-year-old art form to Sage Parasurama- the master of all martial art forms and credited to be the re-claimer of Kerala from the Arabian Sea. Kalaripayattu originated in ancient South India. Kung- fu, popularized by the monks of the Shoaling Temple traces its ancestry to Bodhi Dharma - an Indian Buddhist monk and Kalaripayattu master. Architectural design of traditional

Why Breathing Correctly is So Important in Yoga and in Life

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Yoga is an excellent way to strengthen and tone the arms. Unlike weightlifting, which focuses mainly on isotonic strength building, yoga focuses on isometric work but includes isotonic and eccentric exercises. Isotonic exercise is performed when a weight is lifted or a muscle is engaged while it is contracting; isometric work occurs when a position or a weight is held, supported by a muscle, and eccentric strength building is what happens when a weight is lowered while maintaining control and muscle engagement. In other words, supporting weight even while the muscle is lengthening performs eccentric exercise. Obviously, these types of strength all have different real life applications, and they all stress different parts and functions of the muscle. Yoga is unique in its repeated and challenging exercise of all types of strength  yoga for arms and shoulders . Because of this balanced approach, practitioners of yoga often report that the bulk doesn't pile on, but functional strength

The Wheel Pose

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Wheel Pose (which likewise has numerous different names and is otherwise called Upward Bow, Urdhva Dhanurasana or Chakrasana) has consistently been one of those otherworldly stances for me. It looks lovely and magnificent, and it's additionally a very progressed. On a size of 1 to 10 full wheel is around a 8.  This posture is a full back twist and it fortifies the arms, legs, mid-region, glutes, shoulders, quadriceps and spine. It has numerous advantages, for example, extending the chest and lungs, invigorating the thyroid, adrenal and pituitary organs, expanding vitality and neutralizing despondency. It's additionally restorative for asthma, back torment, fruitlessness and osteoporosis.  There are various contraindications to this posture however which incorporate (yet are not restricted to) back injury, carpal passage condition, looseness of the bowels, cerebral pain, heart issues and high or low circulatory strain. If all else fails check with your clinical expert.  Wheel is

Yoga and the Actual Worldwide Economic Collapse

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We are all facing such a tremendous changes nowadays. One thing is true: we all change despite our beliefs, perception and/or thoughts. There are changes, cycles, and patterns which range as fast as of that of 7-8 weeks embryo's heart: hundreds of beats per minutes, even faster! Not to even mention that table you are seeing now, the chair, shelf, etc, that "thing" that looks like a "fixed" thing, is constantly changing at a tremendously fast pace also. We are not even noticing those changes at all due to its vibration speed "sensed" by our human eyes but as a renown sage of the previous 20th century said: The main foundation of the visible is the invisible... therefore so many things happen in front of us but we cannot definitely notice them due to the lack of development of our senses, our senses cannot grasp those things, well they can but just 4%! One of the megatrends that define a culture according the actual world wide panorama is called Economy,