Free Yoga Positions
The free yoga positions on this website include various simple meditation techniques.
Dancing Shiva Meditation
Benefits...
- firms the legs and hips
- enhances physical and mental poise
- flexibility of the spine is flexibility of the mind
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- Start in a standing posture
- your weight will be on your slightly bend right leg
- your left leg is bent and taken across the right leg, toes pointing
- right arm is bent and taken above the head
- left arm is bent across the body, covering the heart region, and pointing to the foot of the left leg
- breathe and hold this meditation pose for 30 seconds to a minute
- repeat a mantra silently, for example, "om" or "I am Shiva"
- repeat the whole Shiva Meditation Pose on the other side
Corpse Pose -- Savasana
Vajrasana
Downward Facing Dog Pose -- Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Begin from Cat Pose -- Marjariasana -- hands and knee's touching the floor
- extend your arms and hands out in front of you, shoulder width apart
- pull the upper arm bones -- humerus -- into the shoulder joints, and lengthen the spine
- rotate the upper arm bones spreading the shoulder joints
- curl your toes under and exhale, lifting the pelvis and sitting bones into the air toward the sky
- keep the knee's bent and heels off the floor
- lengthen through the spine and arms, stretching the pelvis up toward the sky
- straighten the legs moving your heels toward the floor
- Inhale, draw energy up the arms and legs into the pelvis
- exhale, allowing all this energy to penetrate throughout the core of your body
- hold the pose for as long as you desire, breathing in and out deeply
- when completed, bend your legs and come back to Cat Pose.
- Repeat the steps again for more intense results.
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Therapeutic Yoga
These free yoga positions and asana's have the reputation for helping in certain disorders and illnesses.
They are never a substitute for medical attention, though they may aid in the correction of some disorders.
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