Bhoo Naman Asana is alaos known as Yoga Mudra. Bhoo means Earth or Floor and Naman means To Surrender. This Asana aims at opening up the compression of the lower back vertebra.
TECHNIQUE
Sit cross legged as you do in Sukh Asana or Vajra Asana.
TECHNIQUE
Sit cross legged as you do in Sukh Asana or Vajra Asana.
Keep back straight.
Bhoo Naman Asana |
Join the hands in namaskar at your back side with palms together facing up, thumb crossed or hold the elbows to each other or keep your hands by the sides of the body.
Take a deep breath in and breathe out gently bend down with straight back.
Keep on coming down bending from the lower back trying to touch your chin to the floor.
Push your shoulders back slowly come up after sometime.
Release your hands and lift your head straight.
Bhoo Naman Asana |
Duration 10 seconds to 1 minute
Obese people can rest the head on a cushion in case it does not touch the floor.
Do not put much weight on the head.
Try to bend down from lower back so that there is no rounding of the back.
Avoid in Cervical and pregnancy.
Perform in vajrasan, padmasan or sitting on chair touch head to knees.
BENEFITS
It increases the blood supply to head, mental nerve and sensory organs.
It increases the blood supply to head, mental nerve and sensory organs.
This Asana relieves mental sluggishness.
It Stretches the whole spine makes it supple and elastic.
It also checks the loss of prana from reproductive organs.
It eliminates the weakness of intestines and stomach.
It stimulates gastric fire.
it Cures cnstipation, hyperactivity of liver and pancreas, diabetes, cold, gas trouble, loss of appetite, white discharge (leucorrhea), insomnia, asthma, dysentery and indigestion.