Add a circle of friends around teachers on wechat ~ we have to sit every day, but can you really “sit”? In fact, yoga sitting practice is not only a way to pay attention to yoga meditation and meditation, but also an excellent way to exercise and nourish the body.
There is even the saying that “sitting for ten minutes, living for more than a hundred years”.
Why do you say that? In a sense, the practice of all yoga postures can be regarded as a way to release the spine, limbs and respiratory system.
In this most stable upright form, many disturbances involving gravity and balance will disappear, allowing you to use your body energy for deeper work in meditation practice.
Today, Xiaobian will introduce the five sitting postures of yoga.
They have their own advantages.
Let’s have a look.
First, simply sit on the cushion, straighten your legs forward, put your gluteal muscles back, press the ground with your sitting bones, bend your left calf and put your left foot under your right thigh.
Bend the right lower leg and put the right foot under the left thigh.
Try to keep the instep close to the ground, with the center of the foot upward, the spine extending upward and the shoulder sinking.
A vertical line from the top of the head to the perineum.
Efficacy: simple sitting is a posture that can calm the body and mind.
It helps to relax and regulate the nervous system, make its activities more regular, and help release pressure.
2、 Thunder and lightning sit with knees together and kneel with insteps close to the ground.
Sit with your hips on your heels, your back straight, your shoulders relaxed, your chin slightly retracted, your hands naturally flat on your legs or your hands folded together.
Efficacy: Thunder sitting is also called diamond sitting or diamond sitting.
The bent legs reduce and slow down the blood circulation of the lower body, so as to accelerate the blood circulation of the upper body, especially in the chest and brain.
It helps to promote digestion, balance the nervous system of various parts of the body, make nutrient transport uniform, and reduce the possibility of local accumulation of fat.
3、 Sit with your legs together and keep your back straight.
Bend the left lower leg, place the heel in the perineum, and place the left foot palm close to the right thigh.
Bend the right lower leg, put the right heel on the left ankle, and put the right foot palm between the thigh and lower leg of the left leg.
Keep shoulders relaxed, hands on knees, palms down.
Efficacy: Supreme sitting is considered to be one of the important sitting postures in yoga.
Yoga believes that there are 72000 meridians in the human body, and the Qi of life flows in these meridians, and the best sitting is helpful to clean up these meridians and make them unobstructed.
4、 Half lotus sits on the cushion, straightens his legs forward, bends his right knee, and presses his right heel against the perineum.
Bend your left knee, put your left foot on your right thigh, keep your back straight, and try to put your knees on the ground.
Efficacy: Lotus Yoga can fully open the shoulders, relieve the rheumatic pain and stiffness of the shoulders, enhance the flexibility of the shoulders, fully expand the chest and beautify the chest curve.
5、 Lotus sits on the cushion, straightens her legs forward, bends her left knee, and puts her left foot at the root of her right thigh.
Bend your right knee and try to put your right foot at the root of your left thigh.
The spine is upright, with the top of the head perpendicular to the perineum.
Efficacy: open the buttocks; Help move Apana (downward energy) to the lower half of the body, moving it towards the center of the pelvis and up to the spine.
It can also promote physiological circulation, improve low back pain, prevent spinal diseases, relieve pressure and relax body and mind…
Yoga sitting is a state of relaxation without relaxation, vigilance without tension.
When you take Yoga sitting as a compulsory posture every day, you will feel the tranquility and enrichment of body and mind from the inside out, so as to achieve the unity of body and mind.
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