Posture #7
Balancing Stick Pose
Tuladandasana
This 10-second posture is designed to further increase the heart rate to strengthen the cardiovascular system, along with all-over body strength. As in full inversions, including Headstand or Handstand, in this posture you lower your heart below your hips, which sends large amounts of blood rushing into the heart. It’s like giving yourself an intentional heart attack, so you become stronger and never have one of the accidental and unwelcome kind. And despite what you may think, this is actually more demanding than those other inversions; it can be much easier to stay in a Headstand for an hour than it is to do this one-legged Balancing Stick correctly for 10 seconds.
Benefits:
- Increases physical control and balance
- Increases circulation
- Strengthens heart muscle
- Increases lung capacity
- Improves poor posture
- Improves physical, psychological, and mental power
- Strengthens the flexibility of latissimus dorsi, deltoid, and trapezius muscles
- Improves the flexibility, strength, and muscle tone of shoulders, upper arms, spine, and hip joints
- Develops concentration, patience and determination
- Improves sciatic nerve flexibility
- Strengthens tendons
- Increases cardiovascular circulation, especially to heart blood vessels
- May help clear blocked arteries
- May help prevent future cardiac problems
- Creates a total spine stretch, relieves stress from spine
- Good for varicose veins
- Exercises pancreas, spleen, liver, nervous and circulatory system
Please click here for Bikram Yoga instructor’s dialogue
for Balancing Stick Pose – Tuladandasana
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This is the seventh article in a twenty-six article series dedicated to each of the Beginning Bikram Yoga postures. Images, videos, descriptions, outline of benefits, practice tips, insights and the revised version of the instructor’s dialogue for each pose of Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class are included in these articles. Enjoy!
“Bikram Yoga will give you ‘The Key to the Kingdom of Health’.”
-Bikram Choudhury
Namaste!
Credit: bikramyoga.com, Bikram Yoga by Bikram Choudhury, wikipedia.org, scribd.com, video: BikramWestshore
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