Sheershasana - Head stand

How to do the poster - Sheershasana

STEP 1 - ARMS & HANDS

Sit up on your heels, then catch hold of both your elbows with the opposite hands. Lean forward and lay your forearms on the ground, directly beneath your shoulders. Let go of your elbows, and clasp your hands together.

STEP 2 - HEAD DOWN

With your arms in the tripod position, above right, lower your head so that the top of your skull touches the ground and the back of it is cradled in your hands. Do not make any abrupt movements. Take the next steps slowly.

STEP 3 - ON YOUR TOES

From the crouched position with your head resting in your hands, straighten yoour knees and push your hips up above your head. Then, keeping your legs straight, stretch up high on your toes.

STEP 4 - HALF HEADSTAND

Now bend your knees, bringing them to your chest. Arch your back slightly, as you do when standing up; this will enable you to balance your body in this position. Do not proceed unless you can hold this position for at least 30 seconds without feeling any discomfort.>

STEP 5 - KNEES UP

With your knees still bent, start to straighten your hips. Slowly and carefully, raise your knees until they are pointing straight up toward the ceiling.

STEP 6 - ALL THE WAY

Straighten you knees and lift your feet up toward the ceiling. Support your weight by bracing your elbows against the ground. At first, hold the Headstand for 30 seconds; as you become more skilled at adopting this pose, gradually increase the time to 3 minutes. Always come down before you start to feel tired. Leave the pose slowly and under control (see below). Head in Hands: Rest the back of your head against your hands. Relax, breathing through your nose.

COMING OUT

You should leave this Asana as carefully as you entered it. Do not move jerkily or quickly, or you may lose control and fall.

Bend your knees and lower them.Straighten your legs. Bring your feet to the ground, and then lower your knees.Lower your body so that your buttocks rest on your heels as in the Child's Pose.Finally, relax your hands and return to the full Child's Pose.Do not lift your head up straight away. Rest for at least a minute.Relax in the Corpse before continuing

V.K. Suresh (Founder Sankyayoga)

V.K.Suresh is a Specialized Yoga therapist who dedicated himself for studying about human psychology and anatomy. His deep knowledge in these subjects in these subjects leads him to discover of a new generation treatment based on the ancient system of Yogic metabolism as well as a Yoga therapist he is well known hypnotist and a traditional medical practitioner. Sankyayoga is the result of his incomparable knowledge in his field.

In his early life he was the youngest follower of Prof. A.T.Kovur and he travel around India with Kovur. That experience helps him to found the cultural depth of India. One of his another venture ‘Art and Cultural Tradition – ACT’ stands for the establishment of traditional Indian arts and our ancient culture.

His wife T.R. Sasikala is a school teacher. He have three children’s Sam.S.Babu (Yoga Instructor), Syam.S.Babu (Graphic designer) and Shiya.S.Babu (Student Bachelor Degree of Visual Communication)

He established a new yoga system called Sankyayoga with a great passion of serve people to survive from their lifestyle disorders without medicine. Because he believes that healthy beings are the wealth of a community.

|| Yogena chithasya padena vachaa

Malam sareerasya cha vaidyakena

Yopa karotham Pravaram muneenam

Pathanjalim pranjalim ranathosmi ||

Pranayama

The word Pranayama means ‘Intake Energy’.

Prana = Energy Yama = Intake

Imagin the body as a huge battery, then every body cells are small battery cells. So there are crores of cells in our body. Pranayama is recharging these cells by rhythmic breathing. So the body became highly energized. And as we know our breath and emotions are related to each other, which mean we couldn’t change emotions without change rhythm of breath. Here in Pranayama we learn to steady mind by controlling the rhythm of breath. So the major benefits of Pranayama are: getting more energy from the nature and learning to control mind through simple breathing exercise.

Just try the below given exercise and feel how the Pranayama works in us.

1. Sit in a comfortable position.

2. Keep your back straight.

3. Focus your mind only on breath.

4. Keep deep breathing.

5. After three deep inhalation and slow exhalation Take a long deep breath, full fill your lungs and hold as longer as you can, then slowly exhale.

6. Repeat the 4^th and 5^th step for three times

7. Normalize your breath

Just feel the difference.

Therapeutic Yoga

Concept

According to Yoga, diseases are disorders which are happening because of the wrong life style, wrong food habits and lack of proper knowledge about our body functions. Through the way of therapeutic yoga we are introducing a system of self treatment. The Yogic process of treatment comprises five steps.
Which are

1. Proper exercise
2. Proper breathing
3. Proper diet
4. Proper relaxation
5. Positive thinking

Application:

Proper exercise
Everyone is different, then how can a common exercise be good for all. So the spirit of our practice is to identify the right one for you.
By proper exercise, we mean the right body function which helps you to keep your physique as healthy as possible. Traditional yoga exercise which is described as Asanas or the posters will help you to increase body flexibility, circulation, stability etc. But I recommend you to include modern functional and power yoga sessions with your practice which will help you to improve your cardio vascular efficiency and tune your muscles which are important in physical life. According to our therapeutic yoga method we are introducing different yoga sessions those are designed separately for certain diseases.

Proper breathing
First think about breathing that I want to remind is using our diaphragm well for your well breathing. Because diaphragmatic breathing will help you to improve oxidation level, lung capacity and functions of heart (The heart is resting on the diaphragm). The proper breathing can make magical changes in your mind as well as your body. It steadies your mind, improve concentration, release mental stress, Improve memory power and increase willpower as well as the body functions such as oxidation, purifying the cells, improve heart functions and circulation after all breathing is the best and easiest way to control emotions. The most important thing about breathing exercise is it’s easy to do but must be well trained for self practice.

Proper Diet
There is no common diet program for different body natures. Its up to an individual, up to his way of living, body nature, physical disorders etc.
But the common guidance for a proper diet is:

1. Eat only when you are hunger.
2. Eat slowly and chew the food well.
3. Eat at least two hours before their retiring time at night.
4. Avoid drinking water while eating.
5. Avoid acidic and alkalic food together.
6. Know your food well.

Continuing.....