Yoga Fundamentals Series – Open Your Heart With Bhujangasana

SAVY Yoga has been serving the city of London and surrounding areas since 2011. To serve the people London in a better way, instead of serving some run-of-the-mill pseudo-yoga routines, we offer some very useful, true Yoga/ Pranayama routines, ranging from gentle to very challenging routines, for a beginner to an advanced student alike. Here, we bring to you a new series of classes on Yoga Fundamentals which introduce you and clarify to you the benefits of authentic traditional ashtanga Yoga.

Through demonstration, discussion and experiential movement, you will gain key understanding of proper posture and how to keep your body safe. As common sense dictates, one can function properly only if one is disease-free and is in a healthy state of body, mind and spirit. So, for us, your health and disease-free state comes first of all. Yoga is much more than mere gymnastics and sauna!

London Yoga Classes at SAVY bring you the taste, values and expertise of the true traditional Ashtanga and Vinyasa Yoga from India. Inspired adherence to eight pillars or steps of yoga bestow one with a calm mind and fit body and lead one towards attaining moksha or liberation for an emancipated life. In more physical or materialistic  terms, Yoga is more than capable of keeping one physically and mentally fit and disease-free. It has become the new hot and favored way to sweat it out. Yoga Fundamentals is a step in that direction.

Open Your Heart With Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose)

 

 

 

Bhujangasana or Cobra Pose is a reclining back-bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. It is commonly performed in a cycle of asanas in Surya Namaskar (Salute to the Sun) as an alternative to Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (Upwards Dog Pose). The pose is named for its resemblance to a cobra with its hood raised. The name comes from the Sanskrit words भुजङ्ग bhujanga, “snake” or “cobra” and आसन asana, “posture” or “seat”, from the resemblance to a cobra with its hood raised. The pose is named Sarpasana in some of the old texts, which similarly means Serpent Pose.

For the curious, here is some introduction to the pose, though we’ll be exploring this pose in much greater detail in the workshop.

How To Do

1. 1. You can start this pose from prone position or from Adhomukhshvanasana, the downward facing dog.
   2. To start the pose from prone position, lie down on your stomach and place your forehead on the floor. 
   3. To start from Adhomukhshvanasana, exhale and come down to lie down on your stomach.
   4. Keep your feet together. If you have problem with that, you can keep them hip width apart.
   5. Keep the top of your feet pressed against the floor.
   6. Place your hands underneath your shoulders, keeping your elbows close to your body.
   7. Draw your shoulder blades back and down, and maintain this throughout the pose.
   8. Draw your pubic bone towards the floor to stabilize your lower back, and press your feet actively onto the floor.
   9. With the next inhale, start lifting your head and chest off the floor.
   10. Opening the chest mindfully.
   11. Don’t place all of your weight onto your hands.
   12. Keep the elbows lightly bent and keep the back muscles working. Take your hands off from the floor for a moment to see what is a comfortable, maintainable height for you.
   13. Keep your shoulders relaxed.
   14. With exhale lower yourself back onto the ground.
   15. Take 2-3 rounds of inhaling yourself up into the cobra, and exhaling down to the floor. Then hold for 2-3 full breaths, and come back down.
   16. Rest on the floor for a few breaths, or enjoy Balasana as a gentle counter pose.

Tips

1. Do not curl the toes to avoid putting stress on the spine.
2. Strongly engage and firmly press the legs into the yoga mat for lifting the chest higher in the pose.
3. There should be even distribution of the curve of the back.
4. As you practice Bhujangasana with right techniques, you learn how to work with your legs, pelvis, and stomach thus preparing for deeper backbends.

Benefits

• Stretches muscles in the shoulders, chest and abdomen.
• Decreases stiffness of the upper as well as the lower back.
• Strengthens arms and shoulders.
• Tones up, strengthens and increases flexibility of spine.
• Improves menstrual irregularities.
• Elevates mood.
• Firms and tones the buttocks.
• Invigorates the heart.
• Stimulates organs in the abdomen, like the kidneys.
• Relieves stress and fatigue.
• Opens the chest and helps to clear the passages of the heart and lungs.
• Improves circulation of blood and oxygen, especially throughout the spinal and pelvic regions.
• Improves digestion.
• Strengthens the spine.
• Soothes sciatica.
• Helps to ease symptoms of asthma.
• Opens up four out of seven chakras.

Listen to your body, pay attention to the depth, and follow the instructions for savoring more and more health benefits of Bhujangasana.

We’ll be discussing Bhujangasana in much more detail in the workshop.

You are most welcome to  learn this and stay healthy.

Details of the workshop:

• • Location:
    • Physical Location : SAVY International Old South London Studio at 190 Wortley Road, Suite LL-2 (Lower Level 2) London ON N6C 4Y7
  • Format: 3-Hour Workshop
  • When:
    • Group Session: Saturday, October 10, 2020, from 11 AM – 2 PM
  • Cost:
    • Group Session: $150 (+HST) 
  • Components of Workshop:
    • All about Bhujangasana

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