Supta Padangusthasana keeps the body’s hormones and reproductive organs healthy, learn how to do it

shrishti Khairwal

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Jan 26, 2022

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In today’s time everyone wants to be fit and healthy. To stay healthy, you need to have a good diet and do yoga. Yoga brings peace to your mind and freshness to your body. Before doing yoga, you must do stretching. This reduces the chances of injury to the body. You can also take the help of many yogasanas for stretching. One such yogasana is Supta Padangushthasana Yoga. With its help, you help to strengthen the lower back, legs-ankles, hamstrings, pelvic and quadriceps muscles. Apart from this, it helps in balancing the hormones. It also helps in keeping the reproductive organs healthy.

If you want to explore and learn more about yoga poses, you can join an Online Yoga Teacher Training Course.

Benefits of Supta Padangusthasana Yoga:

• This yoga asana helps in the development of consciousness in the body, helps in making blood pressure, constipation and six-pack abs.
• Helps strengthen quadriceps and hamstring muscles.
• Helps in making the feet shapely. Also, it is a good stretching exercise for runners as well.
• This exercise helps to overcome the problem of sciatica and varicose veins.
• Core muscles, muscles of hands and shoulders get stretched.
• Strengthens the reproductive organs and maintains hormone balance in the body.
• There is also relief in the problem of bladder and hydrocele.
• Blood circulation in the body also remains correct.

How to do Supta Padangusthasana:

• Lie on the yoga mat in Shavasana.
• Slowly stretch the feet and toes and press the feet with the help of ankles.
• Exhaling, bring the right knee to the chest.
• A strap can be stuck on the empty space of the right sole.
• If you feel comfortable, grab the toe with two fingers.
• Now try to straighten the right leg towards the ceiling.
• Keep the hands straight and try to make pressure on the floor with the help of your shoulders.
• Extend the left leg forward by applying pressure.
• You can press the upper part of the left thigh with the left hand.
• Do not put too much stress on the back of the leg due to the stretch of the right leg.
• If you can do the asana in a more difficult way, then you can bend the leg to the right.
• Try to make a 90-degree angle with the left foot while bending the leg.
• The left hips should be completely in contact with the ground during this.
• After 30 seconds, loosen the strap, bring the feet to the ground and bring the body back in the posture of Shavasana.

Tips for doing Supta Padangusthasana:

• The practice of sleeping Padangusthasana is more beneficial than doing it only in the morning.
• If you are doing asanas in the evening, then do yoga for 4 to 6 hours before having food.
• During the practice of asana, the stomach should be completely empty and try to wear loose clothes.

Precautions:

• Patients with high blood pressure should not do Supta Padangusthasana yoga.
• If you have neck pain or discomfort, do not do this exercise.
• Sleeping Padangushthasana yoga should not be done in case of a knee problem and arthritis pain.
• Do not do this yoga posture if there is diarrhea and pain in the stomach.
• Always do Supta Padangusthasana yoga with the help of a yoga trainer.