Padmasana
If you want to protect yourself from many ailments nowadays, you need to boost your immune system, but you also need to eat nutritious food and practice yoga along with your immune system.
The Lotus Pose, or Padmasana, is one of the most challenging yoga poses. But don’t let its difficulty fool you. It’s a pose that’s worth the effort because it promotes mental calmness and awareness. This guide will help you get into the pose and illustrate how to do it correctly.
And we will see its benefits.
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What is Padmasana?
The Padma means “lotus”. While doing Padmasana, your body is shaped like a lotus, hence it is called Padmasana. Padmasana is called a lotus pose in English.
Doing Padmasana purifies the mind and also makes it easy to overcome work, anger, greed, lust, lust, jealousy. This asana is mainly used for meditation. This asana stimulates the Muladhara Chakra. Padmasana has many benefits for human beings.
Padmasana is a very interesting asana. Lotus Pose or Padmasana is an extremely calming and centering posture. It is also known as the Yogic Sleep Pose and can be done in any position, but it’s more effective if you are seated on a straight-backed chair with both feet on the floor that supports your body weight.
Method of doing Padmasana
Steps of Doing Padmasana
- First, put on a yoga mat and sit with your legs extended.
- Place the right foot on the thigh of the left foot and the left foot on the thigh of the right foot.
- The thumb and forefinger (the finger next to the thumb) should stick to each other and keep the rest of the fingers straight.
- Place the right hand on the right knee and the left hand on the left knee.
- Keep the spine and eyes straight.
- Sit in a meditative state with eyes closed.
Benefits of doing Padmasana
♦ Regular practice of Padmasana makes you meditate without knowing it, as a result, it is very beneficial for peace of mind and the experience of self-realization is easy.
♦ This seat is a boon for people with insomnia.
♦ Padmasana helps to keep your spine active and flexible.
♦ Padmasana activates endocrine glands.
♦ Sleep, asthma disappears with regular practice of yoga.
♦ Helps to balance blood pressure.
♦ Diseases like enlargement of blood vessels in the legs do not occur.
Care to be taken while doing Padmasana
Initially, Padmasana causes pain in the legs, so in the beginning, this asana should be done for 1-2 minutes, after regular practice you can increase its time.
When putting on the thigh, place the right foot on the thigh of the left foot and the left foot on the thigh of the right foot.
Conclusion
Padmasana is a very good asana for your health. As you practice it, remember that it involves physical exercise and should not be practiced by people with back problems. We hope this guide has been helpful to you! If you have any questions about our yoga classes, please contact us.
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पद्मासन (padmasana in marathi)
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Things to keep in mind while doing yoga