SALAMBA SARVANGHASANA HATHA
SALAMBA SARVANGASANA, the balance on the shoulders is the Queen or the mother of the postures.
This inversion posture, contrary to what one might think, is a leg posture. Extending the legs in inversion requires a lot more energy than when you have the feet that can press into the ground. It is a good preparatory posture to learn how to straighten the legs in all other inversions like Sirsasana, Pincha mayurasana or Adho Mukha Vriksasana because it is more stable and less impressive.
Depending on mood and mastery, this posture can be invigorating for beginners or soothing for advanced.
Stimulating at the start of the day and soothing at the end as soon as it is mastered. It has a great power to improve the mental faculties (memory, concentration).
On a physical level, it stimulates the thyroid gland, promotes venous return and relieves heavy legs, tones the legs, buttocks, abdomen and spine. It promotes the digestive and respiratory system, stretches and also strengthens the neck. The fact of having the weight of the body on the shoulders, the trapezius muscles and the neck (zones of usual tension) requires them to be released, to better settle in a pleasant stability.
On the mental level, the blood flow being activated towards the brain, this posture creates a cerebral refreshment. Since the body is not used to being in inversion, this posture requires a sense of balance and can at first create anxiety, once mastered it gives self-confidence and the need to letting go in a situation of discomfort. Taking this unusual position of the body can lead us to reflect on this new discomfort, on this notion of the impermanence of our daily security. It forces us to be more mentally vigilant, which can become a faculty of adaptation in everyday life. Fixing the body in inversion in the air in balance makes the body considerably lighter and a flexible mind.
Because of the flexion of the neck, it is imperative to put height under the shoulders and not to practice this posture in the event of cervical problems or any other health problem applied to inversions (women who are menstruating, pregnant who do not master the posture , glaucoma, …)
VIRASANA songs of Om
- explanation of how to do Jalandhara bandha if necessary
DANDASANA basin supported with Jalandhara Bandha
AMS
TADASANA
- stretch the arms along the body + move the wrists back a shoulder width behind the line of the hips
- widen the upper bust from the center of the collarbones to the outside of the shoulders
SHOULDER WARM-UP in TADASANA strap in the hands (R/L)
- extend the arms in front at shoulder height and width with the strap very tense in the hands
- make circles on the sides with the hands, keeping the elbows at shoulder height, the shoulders low and the strong tension in the strap as if you wanted to break it, the bust remains facing
TADASANA wrists behind hip line
UTTHITA TRIKONASANA strap in the hands (R/L)
- bust vertically + extend the arms with the wrists behind the line of the hips + strap shoulder width between hands
- tilt the bust above the front leg by following the movement with the arms extended like a pendulum
TADASANA wrists behind hip line
PRASARITA PADOTTANASANA C (D/G) Beginners: strap in the hands
|| - turn the palms of the hands outwards
TADASANA wrists behind hip line
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