The Lotus position of the allows the human body to be stable. Stabilized mental ability and emotional state. The body relaxes, breathing slows down, blood pressure, heart rate, digestion improve. It should be noted that without good flexibility about the knee to keep the earth in absolute execution Padmasan's poses are difficult, and sometimes just impossible. Even those who perform asana and then, for a long time in it to withstand is not easy. Yes, in fact, you do not need to, you have to do it in pleasure.
Remember that injuries to the knee joints and lumbosacral radiculitis is a contraindication for the performance of this posture. I wonder if the pregnancy is the same contraindication or not? Let's consider this question.
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Is the Lotus Pose useful during pregnancy?
It is believed that inverted poses are useful for a future child for the purpose of better placement in the womb. Therefore, there are so many courses to prepare for the birth of expectant mothers offer. For pregnant women, doing yoga will also have a beneficial effect, just like ordinary people. That's only with the caveat: no battles for records, this is not a sport, no overstrain and violence!
Modern doctors recognize the fact that women who practice yoga exercises correctly, regularly and moderately have a better body and have good physical fitness and health. After all, during labor, you have to take auxiliary poses to facilitate the release of the fetus and reduce the severity of stress and pain.
Yoga is a holistic system!
But I must say that yoga is an integral system - even a way of life, and not a set of movements to increase the flexibility of the joints.
In the motherland of yoga in India, many women, being in position, are engaged in hatha, raja and other types of yoga. Begin to engage in it when there is interest, or in connection with the traditions that have developed in their families.
It is not necessary to attend special classes for yoga during pregnancy, although if you have never done yoga, then of course the instructor-instructor is highly desirable.
On the other hand, we are now talking in this article about Padmasana, or the lotus position, and it is not inverted and very complex, unless, of course, we take into account the inherent flexibility of the leg joints.
Detailed description of the technique of performance Padmasana you will learn from this article.
When in pregnancy one can begin to learn Padmasana
Teachers and gurus in yoga talk about the possible beginning of the study of the Lotus pose at any time of pregnancy. Even two or three weeks before the beginning of labor. But personally, I believe, if you have never been interested in this topic before, it's better to give birth, to recover without a hasty study of yoga asanas.
The program of training sessions with pregnant women instructors in yoga try to develop considering all the nuances of pregnancy.
Pose of Lotus very well strengthens the whole body of a pregnant woman, improves the condition of the spine, joints, improves blood circulation in the pelvis and in the pelvic organs, strengthens the muscles participating in the generic act. Exercise should have a mild execution, while taking and leaving Padmasana requires smoothness. Asana will help to avoid future injuries and ruptures in the perineum and genitals.
In addition, the whole body will gain lightness, the general background of mood will rise, prenatal depression will disappear, the toxicosis phenomena will decrease.
If you were not doing yoga before pregnancy,
Increase the load gradually. Stay in a pose for half a minute, one minute. Do this several times a day. When the exercise is done correctly, there will be no pain.
It will be more correct if you get advice from your doctor before classes. Maybe he will recommend someone to you from his friends who are engaged in yoga.
Technique for seating in the Lotus
- Sit on the floor. Pull your legs forward, your knees are straight.
- Bend, first the right leg in the knee joint, pull the heel to the perineum and place the back of the foot on the thigh of the left leg.
- Push the heel as close as possible to the fold of the hip fold. The sole looks up.
- Put the foot of the left foot in the same way as the right one.
Learn the position of the Lotus first to the left, then to the right.
If you have difficulties
Do not force yourself, just accept the position of the Half-lotus
1, 2 and 3, the items for the lotus seat are similar.
- Place the left foot not on top of the right, but under it. Arrange your knees symmetrically.
Pose of closing the feet and palms
I would still recommend that you recall and read about the fifth rule of health: the exercise "Closing stops and palms."This extremely useful exercise is designed and recommended by the famous Japanese Katsudzo Nishi, it is very similar to the Lotus pose.
Here is what K. Nishi himself wrote about this:
A certain apothecary from Osaka had two sons. Their wives almost simultaneously became pregnant. Unfortunately, the wife of the younger son, the doctor announced that, since she suffers from pelvic stasis, she needs to do a caesarean section. At this time I was in Osaka, and I was asked to offer a pregnant woman some other, better way out of this difficult situation. I suggested that she try to connect the palms of both hands, as well as the soles of both legs for 40 minutes and still perform the exercise "Goldfish."This night the unhappy woman did exactly as I instructed her. The next day, to the great surprise of her husband, as well as the doctor, she gave birth to a child without any suffering.
The wife of the eldest son had a transverse fetal presentation, but she also followed my instructions and had no difficulties in childbirth.
The reason lies in the fact that the narrowing of the pelvis or the transverse presentation of the fetus causes the breakdown of nerves and the imbalance of other vital factors, which leads the fetus to an abnormal position, but once the mother's body is put in order, the pelvis and the fetus will occupy a normal position. "
So. ..
Watch video exercises Closing stops and palms
Technique
Starting position: lie on your back on the floor or a firm flat bed, put a solid pillow-cushion under your neck, close your feet and palms and spread your knees.
Preliminary:
1) press the finger pads of both palms against each other( 10 times);
2) press the pads of the fingers, and then on the entire palm of the left and right hands( 10 times);
3) click on both closed palms( 10 times);
4) hands with tightly closed hands to pull out to full length, throw over the head, then hold them slowly over the face to the waist, as if cutting the body in half, fingers of the palms pointing forward( towards the head).Go back and forth 10 times;
5) then turn the fingers of closed palms towards the legs and move them, as if cutting your body in half, but already from the bottom upwards - from the pubis to the navel( 10 times);
6) the closed palms of hands to carry over the body, as if cutting the air with an "ax", pull the arms as hard as possible( 10 times);
7) pulling the arms full length with closed hands up and down( 10 times);
8) place tightly closed palms on the chest above the solar plexus and move the closed toes of the feet 1-1.5 times the length of the foot back and forth, not allowing them to bend at once( 10 times);
9) move closed hands and feet simultaneously back and forth as if wishing to stretch the vertebrae( from 10 to 61 times).
Accomplishment: after preliminary exercises, the closed palms of hands should be placed on the chest perpendicular to the body( as an antenna), remaining in the position of a "recumbent lotus", then go to the main part of the exercise, which is as follows.
Main part of
The main part of the exercise: close your eyes, remaining at rest in this position for 5-10 minutes. The position of the body resembles the pose of "Lotus" in yoga, only in the reclining position, besides the feet are closed, and the knees are deployed as much as possible.
Recommendations
If you perform the exercise "Clamping of the feet and palms" for 40 minutes, you can, firstly, establish the necessary balance between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems and, secondly, achieve harmony of the general waters in the body. Thus, all violations due to inconsistency and imbalance between nerves and waters are overcome. This exercise is very useful for coordinating the functions of the muscles, nerves, vessels of the right and left halves of the body and especially the limbs. It is important for improving the function of the adrenal glands, genitals, large intestine, kidneys. During pregnancy, exercise helps the child's normal development in the womb, corrects his wrong position, facilitates childbirth.
So the choice is yours!
