News India Live, Digital Desk: Yoga Benefits: Today’s high speed life and increasing stress is a big challenge to maintain body flexibility and keep internal organs healthy. In such a situation, ‘Halasana’, also called Plow Pose, comes as a very powerful and simple yoga asana. It works to give new energy to many body parts from making your spine strong and flexible. Come, let’s know the shocking health benefits of this amazing posture and step-step method to do it.

What is halasana and recipe for it?

Halasan is a posture twisting the body in the shape of a plow, hence it is called Halasan. Method of doing this:

1. beginning: First of all lie down on the ground directly on the back. Your hands are on the ground next to the body and the palms are towards the ground.

2. Raise the feet up: Taking in breathing, raising your legs slowly (at 90 degrees) and then lifting the hips and moving the legs behind the head.

3. Size of the solution: Try to stick your toes on the ground (do not force if difficult). Your back and legs are as straight as possible. You can support the back with your hands, or keep the hands straight on the ground.

4. Slow return: Stop a few seconds or as comfortable. Breathing out, bring your spine back to the ground very slowly and then straighten the legs. Do not hurry, otherwise the back may stretch.

Halasan’s miraculous health benefits:

Even though this asana looks simple, its benefits are many:

1. Control the thyroid: This asana puts direct pressure on the thyroid gland, which improves its functioning. This can help balance both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.

2. Improvement in digestion: Halasan puts light pressure on the abdominal organs such as pancreas, kidney, liver and spleen. It strengthens digestion by relieving problems like constipation, indigestion, and gas.

3. Spinal cord flexibility and pain relaxed: It stretches the spinal cord and makes it more flexible. Problems like back pain, neck tightness and spondylitis are relieved.

4. Helpful to lose weight: Halasan accelerates metabolism and helps to remove toxins from the body, which helps in weight control.

5. Blood sugar and diabetes control: Due to improving the functionality of the pancreas, it can stimulate the production of insulin, which helps control the level of blood sugar. It is helpful for patients with diabetes.

6. Improvement in stress, depression and memory: It extends blood circulation towards the head and brain, which calms the nervous system. It is helpful in reducing the symptoms of stress, anxiety and mild depression and can also accelerate memory.

7. Immunity booster: Due to massage of internal organs and better blood circulation, it increases the body’s immunity.

At what age and who should not be done?

This asana can usually do healthy people of every age group, but it is important to take care:

• From children to adults: Everyone should practice slowly according to physical ability.

• Elderly: If you are elderly, do it very slowly and under the supervision of a specialist, or consult a doctor.

• Who should not do: Pregnant women, high blood pressure (high BP), heart disease, severe injury, neck pain (severe cervical), patients passing through dialysis or people who have very severe back pain, should not do this asana. Women should also avoid this during menstruation.

• Advice: Be sure to consult a qualified yoga instructor or doctor before starting any yogasana.

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