Soorya Namaskar or Sun Exercise
slow breath, raise your arms above your head with the fingers interlaced and then bend backwards as far as you can without overbalancing. (See Fig. 8, page 39.) 2. Now exhale as completely as you could and at the same time bend forward and place your palms flat on the floor about four or five inches in front of your toes. Keep your knees absolutely straight. The correct position is featured in figure 2. One necessary feature of the SUN EXERCISE is the chin lock, which simply means pressing your chin tightly against your chest. The Yogis maintain that this has a beneficial effect on the thyroid glands. Remember while performing the SUN EXERCISE to maintain the chin lock via stages 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. 3. Inhale again, step back with the right foot as in figure 3 so that the other knee is bent and the chin lock is maintained. 4. Exhale once more and move the other leg back as in figure 4, keeping the knees as rigid as possible and trying to reach the floor with your heels. This is not possible Sure but the action of trying to reach the floor with the heels will increase the pull on the calves and thighs. Remember to maintain the chin lock. 5. Inhale again, slowly and deeply and at the same time release the chin lock and, while keeping the upper part of the body as steady as possible, lower the legs and abdomen slowly. Balance throughout stage 5 on the toes and palms until you're in the cobra-like position in figure 5. Arch your back as fully as pos sible, keep your knees rigid and press back your neck and your head while keeping your arms straight. Only your palms and your toes should touch the floor. 6. Having performed the five exercises you must now retrace your steps to the starting position thus: from stage 5 assume the position in figure 4 with the body making a bridge. (See Below.) Bring one leg forward as in figure 3. Bring forward the other leg and you're now bending for ward with your palms flat on the floor as in figure 2. Very slowly straighten up, take a deep breath and then lie down for a few moments and relax. It may take you a little time to ideal the Sun Exercise, as it has taken you some little time to read it and look at the illustrations but the actual performance of it should take you no more than sixty seconds if done correctly. It is not really snarled up and once you have learned the simple sequence of movements they should follow one another with fluid simplicity. Nothing should be hurried. Every movement of the SUN EXERCISE should be held for as long as possible before proceeding to the next. The advantages are manifold. Soorya Namaskar stretches the spine in various directions and helps to keep it supple. It stretches and contracts the abdomen and so helps to relieve congestion and constipation. It tones and limbers up the muscles and has a bracing effect on the entire body. Soorya Namaskar is one of the the bulk complete and beneficial exercises in the whole Yoga range and should never be omitted from your practice schedule. I will now outline a itinerary for those of you who are persuaded that you cannot find the time to practice Yoga asanas. It requires but twelve minutes but if you could find more time in which to practice so much the better. Leg stretching exercise, sixty seconds each leg 2 minutes Savasana or Corpse Posture preceded by con centration on relaxing muscles, tension of muscles or Angle Balance 5 minutes 3. Sun Exercise performed slowly four periods 4 minutes The extra small is to give you time to wake up. Twelve minutes is so very little time out of your whole day but you may soon find that these minutes become the the bulk important part of your day because of your increased feeling of relaxation and well being. In time that alarm going off twelve minutes early will not seem like a monster but more like a welcome friend. |
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