With its Indian origins, Ashtanga yoga is a primeval system combining movements along with breath in an exquisite series of poses for cleansing & purifying the body via inner warming & perspiration.
Bow Pose
Also termed as ‘Dhanurasana’, it is remedial for menses related discomforts alongside mild-ranging backaches & exhaustion oftentimes felt in conjunction with cramps.
- Lying faced down on
- Knees are to be bended up towards your butts & clasping one’s ankle areas with one’s hands.
- Now the feet are to be pressed away from the butts & thighs raised off the carpet.
- The drawing force that such pose creates on the arm areas would assist one in raising one’s torso higher.
- This hoisted position is to be held for half a minute whilst one does deep breathing.
Seated-Forwards Bend Pose
This Ashtanga Yoga pose is also dubbed ‘Paschimottanasana’, it is a relaxing pose that helps in stretching & increasing blood circulation to the pelvis region.
- For practicing
- such pose one has to be seated on a carpet with legs straightened ahead of oneself.
- Lifting one’s trunk to the roof as one tightens one’s core muscles.
- Bending forwards from the hips, keep back erect to as much extent doable & aligning neck with the spine.
- Reaching arms down the legs & holding onto one’s lower legs, ankle or feet areas based on one’s present level of suppleness.
- As one breathes, attempt lowering one’s back to a slight extent on every instant one exhales.
Camel Pose
Also termed as ‘Ustrasana’ pose, it assists in reducing discomforting signs & symptoms of menses like cramping.
- Kneel with your lower
- Tightening one’s core muscles & keeping back erect as one gradually leans one’s torso backwards.
- Moving one’s arms behind oneself & reaching one’s hands towards one’s heel areas.
- Placing one’s hands down on the backside of the lower legs as near to one’s heels as doable sans losing the span of one’s lower back.
- Stretching one’s head, neck as well as back upwards as one pushes one’s hips forwards.
Downwards-Facing Dog Pose
Also known as Adho Mukha Svanasana, it is among the most well-known of Ashtanga Yoga postures performed during classes in the West & performing this pose aids in allaying menstruation-related cramps.
- Start off by comi
Also known as Adho Mukha Svanasana, it is among the most well-known of Ashtanga Yoga postures performed during classes in the West & performing this pose aids in allaying menstruation-related cramps.
- ng on all your fours on a carpet.
- Hands are to be grounded into the carpet as one pushes back into one’s feet that are placed hip width away.
- Legs are to be straightened & torso inverted so that one’s eyes gaze in-between one’s thighs.
- Arms are to be straightened & stretching one’s coccyx to the roof as one turns one’s attention towards one’s breathing.
