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The Cobra Pose Without Surya Namaskar, yoga is incomplete. Surya Namaskar is a Yoga exercise that consists of around 12 gracefully-linked asanas. Surya is also known as Sun Greeting. These asanas help our body mature in a full and healthy way. It also increases mental stability and peace of mind. But many beginners do not know that Surya Namaskar is a mix of Pranayama and Asana. It is carried out with 8 separate asanas in a cyclic order in 12 orderly stages. Surya Namaskar provides many health benefits including weight loss, skin glow, digestive system control, insomnia control, back and knee pain relief and many more. However, when you are in sunrise or sunset, the Sury Namaskar advantages multiply. The Surya Namaskar is in practise in many iterations. However, we only based in this article on Surya Namaskar. We outlined the steps of Surya Namaskar, briefed on the positions of Surya Namaskar, and listed Surya Namaskar's top 7 benefits. Let's start with the steps of Surya Namaskar. Surya Namaskar How to do that? Namaskar's 12 Steps Of Surya ● Pranama (The Prayer Pose) ● Up to Outlook (The Raised Arms Pose) ● Up to now (The Standing Forward Bend) ● The Calvary of the Ashwa (The Equestrian Pose) ● The Skull (The Stick Pose) ● Namasca's Ashtanga (The Caterpillar Pose) ● The City of Cyprus (The Cobra Pose) ● Svanasana Adho Mukha (The Down Face Dog Pose) ● The Calvary of the Ashwa (The Equestrian Pose) ● Up to now (The Standing Forward Bend) ● Up to Outlook (The Raised Arms Pose) ● Sweetheart (The Mountain Pose) Let's explain how to do briefly with each of these asanas. 1. Pranamasana (The Prayer Pose) Pranamasana is the first move in Surya Namaskar. Pranamasana is a two-worded word, Pranam is a means of honour, and Asana is a place. Start with this asana, stand on your feet, hold it together. On both feet balance the weight.Stretch your chest and smile as you stay erect. Raise the two arms in the sky from the sides as you inhale. When you exhale, put the palms gently together in the posture of prayer in front of the chest. Health Benefits: This asana is designed to soothe the mind and body. 2. Hastottanasana (The Raised Arms Pose) In the Surya Namaskar steps, Hastottanasana comes second, where Hasto stands for paws, Uttana means an intensive stretch and Asana means pose. After Pranamasan, lift up your hands and arch softly as you synchronise with your breath. Stay next to your ears with your biceps.Be sure that your biceps are level, your eyes straight, your feet straight and your knees straight. Health benefits: This asana aims to boost the supply of energy to the mind in the upper part of the body. 3. Hastapadasana (The Standing Forward Bend) Hastapadasana is the third asana in Surya Namaskar. Hasta is hands in Sanskrit, Pada is foot, Asana is stance. Follow with Hastapadasana,Shake your hands straight and stretch them out and back. Keep the back straight and bend forward. Try to maintain the hands on the floor while the legs are bent and the back straight. You should only hold your fingertips on the floor so you can bring your palms flat on the floor. Pull the heads in the legs softly. Health benefits: Asana reduces the fat of the abdomen, gives the stomach smooth, and reinforces the backbone. 4. Ashwa Sanchalanasana (The Equestrian Pose) Ashwa means horses and sanchalan means moving, and asana is positional. The next asana in the Surya Namaskar steps is Ashva Sanchalanasana. In this asana or equinox, Take your right leg as far back as you can and sit on the floor with your right knee as you stretch out. Press back on the floor to look up the fingers or hands. Inhale all these motions. Health benefit: This position tones the abdomen's lungs, improves chest muscles, increases pulmonary ability and controls the flow of bowels. 5. Chaturanga Dandasana (The Stick Pose) Chaturanga Dandasana is the fifth or asana, or stage in Surya Namaskar. Followed by Ashwa Sanchalanasana, put down the palms, curl the right toes below and tighten the right leg. Glide your left leg backwards and step into a board or push-up stance while you breathe. Make sure your hands are still behind your shoulders while your torso is parallel to the table. Health benefits: this pose serves to improve the posture of your wrist, your arm and your muscles, as well as reinforce the muscles that form the spine. 6. Ashtanga Namaskara (The Caterpillar Pose) The Ashtanga Namaskara is a stance where the body has an eight point of contact with the earth, including the chin, the thorn, the paws, the knees and the feet. In the Suria Namaskar sequence it is the 6th Asana. Following Chaturanga Dandasana, bend your knees from the plane and exhale softly to the ground. Take your shoulders in your hands and keep your hips low in the breeze and your elbs. Remain on the field of your chin. Make sure you're on your chin, stomach, hands, and feet. Health benefits: Ashtanga Namaskara aims to improve back and spine stability. It also strengthens the arms and biceps. 7. Bhujangasana (The Cobra Pose) The seventh stage – Bhujangasana or the cobra posture is one of the Surya namaskar postures typically taken as an alternate Urdhva Mukha Svanasana in a cycle of asanas in Surya Namaskar. In order to do this,Slowly pull down your hip from the caterpillar pose. Breathe in and progress softly. And sure you tuck in your elbows. Bending from the hip, lifting the floor to search the chest. Spread your toes and press down your hands. Help: This posture resembling the snake cobra is called the Cobra pose. Health benefits: The Bhujangasana shades the flesh, tightens the backbone and relieves voltage. 8. Adho Mukha Svanasana (The Down Face Dog Pose) The Surya Namaskar pose, as the name suggests, replicates a dog that bends down. In the following of Bhujangasana, press your hands on the concrete, relax, raise your hip up into the air straight and make your V shape inverted. Try to make a corner from your leg to your stomach of 90 degrees. Health benefits: Adho Mukha Svanasana tones the heart, strengthens the bones and blood flows into the brain. 9. Ashwa Sanchalanasana (The Equestrian Pose) Remember the Ashwa Sanchalanasana or the Equine Pose in keeping with the cyclic order. Stir your right leg between your hands and put your left knee on the pavement. Drill down and look up your hip. Health benefit: This position tones the abdomen's lungs, improves chest muscles, increases pulmonary ability and controls the flow of bowels. 10. Hastapadasana (The Standing Forward Bend) Then do the Hastapadasana with Ashwa Sanchalanasana. Put your hands next to you and curl your left toes softly below. Take your left knee, hop forward and push it forward with your left shoulder. Place your palms on the floor next to your feet as you exhale. If the body makes you, keep the hands on the concrete. Or else, just reach the floor with your fingertips while your knees bend slightly. Pull the heads in the legs softly. Hastapadasana is very effective to treat constipation, hair loss and back pain. 11. Hasta Uttanasana (The Raised Arms Pose) The Uttanasana Hasta is repeated in step 2 as stated. Lift your arms during inhalation, move your hands softly up and turn slightly backwards. Push your hips more outwards while making sure your biceps match your ears. Extend more upward than stretch backward. Health benefits: Hastottanasana helps to reinforce ribs, reduce pain in the neck and enhance the flexibility of the settlement. 12. Tadasana (The Mountain Pose) Comply with Tadasana in Surya Namaskar. Bring down weapons as you breathe out. Feel the body's magical feeling. Health advantages: the Tadasana or mountain position helps make the backbone agile and also corrects your stance. It also increases the state of mind and keeps you relaxed and focused. Once all of those steps have been completed, Surya Namaskar indicates that you have completed one round. Surya Namaskar's two rounds render a set. For best performance, at least 6 or 12 Surya Namaskar sets are suggested each day– either during the sunrise or during sunset. However, you can begin with 4 or 6 rounds as a novice, and progressively as you become comfortable and expert. You can do as many as you can until you become a pro in Surya Namaskar. But above all, ensure you keep up the breathing pattern step by step with Surya Namaskar..
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