In this asana one has to acquire the pose of a Cobra. Lie down with your face downwards and legs closely held together. Let your palms touch the ground below the shoulders, but fully apart. Pressing the ground with your palms, raise the elbows a little.
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You are to assume the form or the pose of a bow (dhanu). Lie down on the ground keeping the face downwards. Bend your legs and hold your ankles with the hands.
Now raise the hind part of the body and then the front part as far as possible. Bend your neck backwards looking at the sky. Tighten up the body bent in the form of a bow, inhaling the breath.
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Matsya is a Sanskrit word for the fish. The asana resembles a fish. It is practised after the Sarvangasana, as it removes the slight stiffness caused in the practice of Sarvangasana.
Lie down on your back. Do Padmasana. Keeping the legs crossed, lie down and then raise your head, making an arck with the chest. Placing the head on the ground, look backwards, with the chest raised.
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Mayur means a peacock and hence the pose of a peacock in this asana. Sit on your knees. Bend forward slightly. Join the elbows and rest your palms on the ground. Now bring down the abdomen on your joined elbows.
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‘Neti’ is of two types. One is ‘Sutra Neti’, in which a piece of wet thread is inserted through one side, or nostril of the nose and taken out of the mouth, but it may not be easy for all to do.
Shavasana is practised at the conclusion of all other asanas, that is, it should be the last asana to be performed, because its main purpose is to relax all the limbs, and the nerves and muscles of the body.
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Usha means the early morning dawn of colour on the eatern horizon. Water taken early morning as you get up from the bed at the rise of dawn is given the name of ‘Usha Paan’, the drink of the dawn.
For this purpose, about one litre or less (say two-and-a-half glasses of water) is kept in a copper vessel at night while going to bed. The water is better kept in the pot for the whole night in the open to be sufficiently cool in the morning.
‘Dhouti Kriya’, too, is of two kinds. One is done with a wet piece of cloth inserted into the stomach through the mouth and when well-immersed, taken out of the stomach through the mouth. This is done to cleanse the internal digestive system.
The concept of SHIVAMBU-KALPA, or the AUTO-URINE THERAPY is also a branch of the Science of Yoga, as it has been in use for ages by the ‘sadhakas’ or the seekers of Yoga—the Yogis.
It may be considerd as an advance on Nature-cure therapy, though a branch of it.
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The first thing one should do after getting up from the bed in the morning is to wash one’s face, but if done in a scientific way, the very washing of the face has a two-fold benefit.
The right method is to take water, rather cold water, from a bucket of water kept during the night to cool. Water should be kept not in a plastic bucket, but a metallic one, to get cooled. Get a mug of water from the bucket with one hand and fill up your mouth completely with water, with the help of the other hand.
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