Mayurasana is a great yoga asana where you balance your body using your hands. It is called Mayur Mudra because it looks like a peacock showing its wings. It helps in reducing stress and is good for your body. It is important to do it correctly, so it is best to learn from a yoga teacher first. If you do it wrong, it could hurt you.
Benefits of Peacock Pose
Mayurasana improves physical balance
By doing Mayurasana regularly, it strengthens your abdominal muscles. This helps you stay balanced and avoid falling.
Mayurasana reduces back pain
Mayurasana is a yoga pose that can help people who have back pain. When you do this asana, it strengthens your back muscles, which help in supporting your spine.
Mayurasana strengthens the shoulders
When you do Mayurasana, your shoulders have to work very hard to lift your body. This strengthens the muscles of your shoulders. It can also help relieve any shoulder pain.
Mayurasana improves mental health
Performing Mayurasana pose can strengthen your body and help your brain feel better, too. If you do Mayurasana often, it can help you feel less anxious, stressed and sad.
But, whether Mayurasana is good for your health depends on how you do it and how healthy you are.
Steps to do Peacock Pose
- First of all spread the mat on the flat ground and sit on your knees
- Keep the ankles close to each other and keep a little distance between the knees
- Now bend forward and place the hands on the ground between the two knees.
- Keep the elbow and fingers of the hands towards you and keep the waist straight.
- Slowly move your arms so that your elbows come close to your stomach.
- During this, put your weight on your hands and start straightening your knees.
- First raise one leg above the ground. Then, try to keep your balance and lift the other leg as well.
To perform this particular hand position called mudra, you have to put all your weight on your hands and hold it for as long as you can. But if you're trying it for the first time, it's really important to enlist the help of a yoga teacher who knows what they're doing.
Precautions during Peacock Pose
- Slowly raise the legs in the air to balance the body
- Do not force any action, doing so may cause injury
- Do not do this yoga exercise on rough ground
- Keep arms and shoulders parallel to each other in yoga posture
When not to do Mayurasana
- Bruises, sprains, or severe pain in any part of the body
- menstruation or pregnancy
- Older people or those with balance problems
- person suffering from blood pressure or heart diseases
- feeling tired or weak
