Yoga cow face, Sanskrit name gomukhasana.
“Go”。 Refers to cattle, Mukha means “face”.
“Asana” means posture.
Cow face pose is a yoga pose with open hips, shoulders and chest, which has many advantages.
Asana benefits asana is a posture that opens the hips and shoulders at the same time.
Ideally, the leg muscles will be affected by gravity and completely relaxed.
Piriformis is a small muscle in the hip, which will also be stretched.
Because the muscles run directly along the sciatic nerve, blocked piriformis muscles can cause low back pain.
By stretching, you can relax your muscles and relieve the pain in your lower back.
Stretching with your arms opens your chest and relaxes your shoulder muscles.
This posture is also suitable for breathing adjustment.
It can relieve pressure, improve depression, and enhance self-confidence.
Figure out the long sitting posture, bend the right knee, put the right foot on the outside of the left thigh, the outside of the right foot on the ground, bend the left knee, put the left foot on the outside of the left hip, the outside of the left foot on the ground, overlap the knees up and down in a straight line with the spine, lift both hands flat in front, rotate the left arm inward and backward, the back of the hand up along the spine, rotate the right arm outward, and bend the elbow, The palm of the hand is interlocked with the fingers of the left hand along the spine, and the elbow of the right hand points directly above.
Exercise skills and tips enter slowly and carefully.
If you make a mistake, your lower back and shoulders are easy to hurt your hips: always practice your posture by keeping your sitting bones horizontal.
If one side of your hips sinks and the other side does not sink, the extension of your hips will be reduced, and the exercise will lose its central effect.
If you have difficulty, sit on yoga bricks or folded blankets.
Shoulders: if you have difficulties, please use a yoga belt to open your shoulders, rather than buckle your fingers together at all costs! Not to raise the upper arm, but more about the lower arm.
This rotation is beneficial to shoulder muscles, especially the attachment of shoulder sleeve muscles, and the always tight chest muscles can also be stretched.
You need to make sure your shoulders are level.
When the right arm is raised, the right shoulder may also be up, so let it fall to the same level as the left.
The sagging shoulder of your left arm wants to move forward, so you should roll back carefully.
In short, clasping your hands too tightly will backfire, and the yoga belt can provide you with the necessary degree of freedom of rotation.
Make sure your back stays extended, starting from your hips to the top of your skull.
In asana, you should not feel any pain in your knees or shoulders! Put your feet where you feel good.
You should not feel any pressure.
Cow face pose is not only an open hip pose, but also an open shoulder and open chest pose.
You can also practice the two parts of it separately.
Sometimes you only practice half of the cow face pose: legs.
You can meditate with your hands on your knees, or you can do Eagle arms, or you can add cow face arms to other postures (such as standing pose)…
