Shirshasana is a special yoga pose named after the word "head" because it involves balancing on your head. It is called the king of all yoga asanas because it is quite challenging to do in the beginning, but it has many benefits. Shirshasana involves inverting your body using your head or hands to maintain your balance. According to Yoga Vidya, its many benefits have been told.
Benefits: Blood circulation is necessary for our body to function properly. When there is good circulation of blood in our brain, it helps our brain to work in a better way. It helps in better functioning of the glands in our body and keeps our stomach, liver and kidney active. It helps in our digestion and keeps our stomach healthy. A long time ago, a famous doctor named Hippocrates used ropes and pulleys to hang patients upside down on a ladder to help with blood circulation.
Benefits of Shirshasana -
- Like every asana, headstand also has many benefits. Some of them are:
- Calms the mind and helps relieve stress and mild depression.
- Shirshasana stimulates the pituitary and pineal glands.
- Strengthens hands, legs, and spine.
- Shirshasana increases the efficiency of the lungs.
- Shirshasana has a positive effect on the digestive organs, which gives relief in constipation.
- Shirshasana gives relief from the symptoms of menopause.
- Is therapeutic for asthma, infertility, insomnia, and sinus.
'Inversion therapy'
In other countries there is a type of exercise called inversion therapy. It involves doing a certain pose on a special bed that can tilt. You tie your feet to the bed and then hang upside down. This helps take the weight off your head and hands, making you less prone to injury. It can also help people who feel very sad.
Disclaimer:
The purpose of the information given in this article is only to create awareness about diseases and health related problems. It is not a substitute for a qualified medical opinion. Therefore, readers are advised not to try any medicine, treatment or prescription on their own, but must take the advice of an expert or doctor related to that medical path.
