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Important Instructions before you Start

First of all empty your bowels and urinate.
Take a shower if possible otherwise wash your face and clear your nostrils with water so they are clear to breath properly.
Keep in mind don't practice Yoga unless you had spent four hours after having light lunch.
Now you are ready for exercise. Put an blanket on the floor which should not be thicker than one inch.
Start exercise and stop the posture where you think is your limit. Don't try to overdo which might result in muscle injury. The point of posture where you think is your limit that is your complete posture. So with the passage of time you will automatically go further until the complete posture. As the flexibility in your muscles and tendons (tissues which bind the bones and muscles) grows. So be patient which is the other name for Yoga I mean endurance.

1.Sit in the Vajar Asana for about one minute to relax.

2. Now exhale and lean backwards while resting your elbows on the floor and your hands holding the soles of your feet. Stay in this position for 5-10 seconds breathing normally.

3. Exhale again and recline more and try to put your top of the head on the floor. It will stretch your back and back of the head. If you feel pain stop there and take it as your final posture. With practice you will achieve it. Now after you put your head top on the floor breath normally. After 30 seconds to one minute come back in position (2) and then in position (1). Relax back to Vajar Asana.

4. Repeat this Asana 3-5 times according to your capacity.

Benefits: It is a very good posture for a complete over hall of your body stretch backwards. As you can see its practitioner can easily make his/her legs and upper body beautiful. It is said to be very helpful in making the upper chest area strong, so good for asthma sufferers, again talk to your doctor before starting. Double chin vanishes with this posture. Very effective to make your spine more flexible and people who do this never had a slip disc problem.

Problems in Practicing: What will happen when you will start this. First problem to sit in Vajar Asana. Many people will have difficulty but after practice you can easily sit for five to tem minutes. This itself is good posture to sit . When you will try the second one(2) you will feel a discomfort but try to go as far as you could. If you are doing it first time then you will not have enough flexibility to do this, but with time and practice you will have enough to cope to get the final position as 3.It is important to practice up to your limit but never overdo to complete the posture overnight.

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