Vajrasana "Diamond Pose" With Intrinsic Mind Wellness
Heart Opener
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Simply by just sitting on the legs in Vajrasana has many benefits, but adding and combining movement can be so stimulating.
Here we open the heart, by lifting the arms over the head or behind the head, to open the lungs, let go by bringing length into the neck by looking up. This is a very invigorating type of movement that can help with lethargy and cramping in the body. Take the breath with you.
Watch the video for a couple of arm rotations and variety you can add. Remember this is your practice, so very creative.
Benefits Of Vajrasana
These are a few amazing benefits of the Vajrasana.
Contraindications
Here we open the heart, by lifting the arms over the head or behind the head, to open the lungs, let go by bringing length into the neck by looking up. This is a very invigorating type of movement that can help with lethargy and cramping in the body. Take the breath with you.
Watch the video for a couple of arm rotations and variety you can add. Remember this is your practice, so very creative.
Benefits Of Vajrasana
These are a few amazing benefits of the Vajrasana.
- This asana improves digestion and with regular practice, it eliminates constipation.
- Better digestion prevents ulcers and acidity.
- This asana strengthens the back and relieves patients suffering from lower back problems and sciatica.
- This asana strengthens the pelvic muscles too.
- It helps to ease out labor pains and also reduces menstrual cramps.
- This asana is one of the best ones to assume when you wish to go into a meditative state since it is an upright pose.
Contraindications
- You suffer from severe knee pain.
- You have had a recent surgery on your waist or legs.
- You are in your last trimester of pregnancy.
Better Health and Wellness With Vajrasana
Yoga is one of the best ways to soothe, relax and uplift the trinity of body, mind and soul. It is a holistic approach to attain the silencing of mind, muting the business of thoughts and to fix all possible imbalances present in body. Yoga heals inside out; it is one of the most inexpensive and easiest ways to stay fit physically as well as mentally. One of the best things about practising yoga is that it comes easy. It is a mix of breathing exercises and simple poses that first work on you getting used to it and once you have started enjoying it, it takes you higher, enabling you to try out more advanced intense poses for greater flexibility and strength.
Exactly, one of the reasons why this age-old science is rapidly catching up with the West is because it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym. It uses your own body against you to challenge and strengthen it, I (Leisa) personally gave up weights when I started yoga using my own body weight to gain strength . What's more surprising is that sometimes you don't even have to do a thing. Simply lying on your back with hands and legs wide apart makes a yoga asana - shavasana. Talking of easy postures, today we shall talk about an asana that looks extremely stress-free yet does a great deal for the body - Vajrasana.
1. Improves Digestive Health:
Vajrasana alters the blood flow in the lower pelvic region. The blood flow to the legs is reduced and the blood flow to the digestive organs is increased. This increases the efficiency of the digestive system and helps those with weak digestion to digest a meal easily. Regular practice strengthens the digestive system and keeps acidity, indigestion, bloating, constipation at bay.
2. Better blood circulation:
Vajrasana helps better blood circulation in the body. It modifies the blood flow by reducing the blood flow in lower portion, especially in the legs and increasing blood flow to the upper parts of the body including digestive organs, heart, lungs and brain.
3. Makes lower body flexible:
It strengthens the sexual organs, tones lower body muscles (hips, thighs, calves), cures joint pains, urinary problems, etc.
4. Helps in weight loss:
Losing weight becomes possible with regular practice of Vajrasana. You will see reduction in your belly fat after a few weeks of regular practice of Vajrasana.
5. Helps meditation:
In Vajrasana the body becomes upright and straight with no effort. Slow and rhythmic breathing in this position can help you go into the meditative state very easily.
Exactly, one of the reasons why this age-old science is rapidly catching up with the West is because it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym. It uses your own body against you to challenge and strengthen it, I (Leisa) personally gave up weights when I started yoga using my own body weight to gain strength . What's more surprising is that sometimes you don't even have to do a thing. Simply lying on your back with hands and legs wide apart makes a yoga asana - shavasana. Talking of easy postures, today we shall talk about an asana that looks extremely stress-free yet does a great deal for the body - Vajrasana.
1. Improves Digestive Health:
Vajrasana alters the blood flow in the lower pelvic region. The blood flow to the legs is reduced and the blood flow to the digestive organs is increased. This increases the efficiency of the digestive system and helps those with weak digestion to digest a meal easily. Regular practice strengthens the digestive system and keeps acidity, indigestion, bloating, constipation at bay.
2. Better blood circulation:
Vajrasana helps better blood circulation in the body. It modifies the blood flow by reducing the blood flow in lower portion, especially in the legs and increasing blood flow to the upper parts of the body including digestive organs, heart, lungs and brain.
3. Makes lower body flexible:
It strengthens the sexual organs, tones lower body muscles (hips, thighs, calves), cures joint pains, urinary problems, etc.
4. Helps in weight loss:
Losing weight becomes possible with regular practice of Vajrasana. You will see reduction in your belly fat after a few weeks of regular practice of Vajrasana.
5. Helps meditation:
In Vajrasana the body becomes upright and straight with no effort. Slow and rhythmic breathing in this position can help you go into the meditative state very easily.
"Do You Know Your Yoga?" The Quiz
This is a short quiz to see if the ideas you have about Yoga are correct. Yoga is a very broad description that takes in a number of different types and styles so the questions and the explanations given for the answers are equally broad.
Question One: What is Yoga?
a/ An Exercise Program.
b/ A Meditation Program.
c/ A Healing Program.
d/ All of the above.
If you answered (D) then you get a tick. Well done. Yoga can be any of these things and often is all of them at once. At it's simplest level it is an exercise program which, when practised regularly will increase strength and flexibility in the body. Because of the speed that positions are changed and the emphasis on static exercise many Yoga classes put an emphasis on breathing and directing energy and thought to different parts of the body. This aspect of Yoga is where it most closely resembles a Meditation program, though exactly what meditation means in each person’s individual case is going to be different depending on him or her. Finally, Yoga is most definitely a form of healing. It allows the increased flow of blood, which carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, greatly accelerating the healing rate. The stretching actions are also good for healing tissue injuries providing they are done to the right depth. Overextending can lead to re-damaging an injury, so it's important to know your limits. Yoga can also be a fantastic pre-emptive healing strategy and this is why Prenatal yoga classes are so popular. They prepare a women's body for childbirth and because of the strengthening of the specific muscles women who undergo prenatal Yoga find it much easier to recover and get back into shape after a birth.
Questions Two: Yoga Exercises are________?
a/ Fast.
b/ Slow.
c/ Static.
d/ All of the above.
Yoga is usually a static exercise regime so (C) is your answer here. However an argument can be made for (B) because the movements between exercises are also part of the Yoga equation. Often an exercise will involve a long slow stretch, gradually pushing a little further, but ultimately the stretch needs to be held for a certain amount of time to gain it's full benefit. Fast exercise programs are all about getting the heart and blood pumping, whereas Yoga is about releasing blockages and getting the blood flowing to all parts of the body. This difference is quite important and a key element in the success and popularity of Yoga. A vinyasa flow would incorporate more of C and B....
Question Three: Do You Have to Do Yoga In Classes?
A/ Yes.
B/ No.
The answer is no (B) - of course you don't. Yoga is something that can be a fantastic group activity, but it doesn't need to be. You are quite capable of doing Yoga sitting in your bedroom and no-one will ever know. Other people go to the part to do Yoga in the sun with some friends. Others will do Yoga in an airport between stopovers. How and where you do Yoga is up to you. What's fantastic is you don't need much room, and all it takes is a little time to work through your routine. Also, if no-one sees you doing it, nobody is going to know, unlike going for a run you won't be panting like a dog or sweating like a big at the end of a session.
Question One: What is Yoga?
a/ An Exercise Program.
b/ A Meditation Program.
c/ A Healing Program.
d/ All of the above.
If you answered (D) then you get a tick. Well done. Yoga can be any of these things and often is all of them at once. At it's simplest level it is an exercise program which, when practised regularly will increase strength and flexibility in the body. Because of the speed that positions are changed and the emphasis on static exercise many Yoga classes put an emphasis on breathing and directing energy and thought to different parts of the body. This aspect of Yoga is where it most closely resembles a Meditation program, though exactly what meditation means in each person’s individual case is going to be different depending on him or her. Finally, Yoga is most definitely a form of healing. It allows the increased flow of blood, which carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, greatly accelerating the healing rate. The stretching actions are also good for healing tissue injuries providing they are done to the right depth. Overextending can lead to re-damaging an injury, so it's important to know your limits. Yoga can also be a fantastic pre-emptive healing strategy and this is why Prenatal yoga classes are so popular. They prepare a women's body for childbirth and because of the strengthening of the specific muscles women who undergo prenatal Yoga find it much easier to recover and get back into shape after a birth.
Questions Two: Yoga Exercises are________?
a/ Fast.
b/ Slow.
c/ Static.
d/ All of the above.
Yoga is usually a static exercise regime so (C) is your answer here. However an argument can be made for (B) because the movements between exercises are also part of the Yoga equation. Often an exercise will involve a long slow stretch, gradually pushing a little further, but ultimately the stretch needs to be held for a certain amount of time to gain it's full benefit. Fast exercise programs are all about getting the heart and blood pumping, whereas Yoga is about releasing blockages and getting the blood flowing to all parts of the body. This difference is quite important and a key element in the success and popularity of Yoga. A vinyasa flow would incorporate more of C and B....
Question Three: Do You Have to Do Yoga In Classes?
A/ Yes.
B/ No.
The answer is no (B) - of course you don't. Yoga is something that can be a fantastic group activity, but it doesn't need to be. You are quite capable of doing Yoga sitting in your bedroom and no-one will ever know. Other people go to the part to do Yoga in the sun with some friends. Others will do Yoga in an airport between stopovers. How and where you do Yoga is up to you. What's fantastic is you don't need much room, and all it takes is a little time to work through your routine. Also, if no-one sees you doing it, nobody is going to know, unlike going for a run you won't be panting like a dog or sweating like a big at the end of a session.
