Explain 10 asanas with therapeutic effects.
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1. Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
This pose teaches one to stand with majestic steadiness like a mountain. The word ‘Tada’ means a mountain, that’s where the name comes from. It involves the major groups of muscles and improves focus and concentration. It is the starting position for all the other asanas.
2. Vrikshasana (Tree Pose)
This pose gives you a sense of grounding. It improves your balance and strengthens your legs and back. It replicates the steady stance of a tree.
3. Adho Mukho Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog Pose)
This pose stretches hamstrings, chest and lengthens the spine, providing additional blood flow to the head. It is will leave you feeling energized.
4. Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
It stretches the legs and torso, mobilizes the hips and promotes deep breathing, leaving one with enlivening effects.
5. Kursiasana (Chair Pose)
An intensely powerful pose, this one strengthens the muscles of the legs and arms. It builds your willpower and has an energizing effect on the body and mind.
6. Naukasana (Boat Pose)
It tightens the abdominal muscles and strengthens shoulders and upper back. It leaves the practitioner with a sense of stability.
7. Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose)
This one will strengthen the lower back muscles while cushioning the spine, triceps and opens the chest to promote the inhalations. It also makes the spine flexible.
8. Paschimottanasana
This asana helps in improving the flexibility of the hamstrings and hips and lengthens the spine.
9. Child's Pose
This restful posture helps let go and surrender. It restores vitality physically, mentally and emotionally.
10. Sukhasna
Sukhasna is a comfortable position for pranayama and meditation. It gives the practitioner a centering effect.
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1. Thunderbolt Pose (Vajra Asana)
This sitting stance has a lot of advantages. It's wonderful for your knees, all of your leg muscles, and making your ankle joints more mobile. It also helps with digestion.
2.Gomukh Asana
Our spines benefit enormously from Gomukh asana. It aids in the realignment of our bodies and the prevention and treatment of spine and back issues, two of the most common ailments of our time.
3. Kapalbhati (Kapalbhati)
This asana improves blood circulation in your body, revitalizes your mind, and expels all of your stale oxygen. "Kapalbhati" means "shining skull" in Sanskrit, so it also gives you that pleasant yoga shine.
4. Downward facing Dog
It's a terrific all-body stretch that relieves a lot of back tightness. It's also helpful for circulation because it inverts the body gently.
5. Child's pose
As the name suggests, Child's pose is a wonderfully calming and revitalizing asana that can help your body and mind reset and rejuvenate.
6.Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
This asana aids in the strengthening of the hip and chest muscles. It also aids in the reduction of lower back discomfort.
7.Naukasana (Boat Pose)
This boat position is effective in the treatment of a variety of medical ailments. Naukasana is a yoga pose that strengthens the lungs, liver, and pancreas .
8.Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose)
It's a heart-opening backbend that stretches your entire upper body and can help if you're suffering from back discomfort, shoulder tightness, or soreness in your upper body.
9.Sukhasana asana.
Sukhasna is a relaxing pose that is ideal for meditation and concentration.
10.Shavasana
The name of this stance comes from the reclining position of a deceased person. It's a resting and relaxing pose that's commonly done at the end of a yoga session.