SHAVASANA the corpse pose

As you do heavier yoga poses you overexert the resources your body is holding inside because yoga in general is excessively heating up your internal bodily tissues and invisible to you normally structures,those that make you what you are on the inside and making you your own self;not to the point,where it isnt able to do the poses,yet close to this critical time moment where it finally can NOT follow your brainy direction,and so the body IS heavily overworking during yoga,even as visibly you seem to perform not so many actions,still you always feel extremely tired after it.The longer had you been holding to each of yoga poses the better are the final results indeed;the larger profit had been just obtained from it,so try to hold on to each pose till either the very feeling of real exhaustion or else till heavy breathing appears.I try to hold on to each pose i do for AS long as i can hold on to it with no exhaustion,which is always seen clerarly as you find yourself suddenly having heavy/shallow breathing-THE definite sign that this particular pose IS better left alone for a break.You may do poses exactly the way you like them the most indeed;this simple attitude IS perfect for beginners in yoga;this particular attitude of holding on to a pose till completely wasted off by it is only useful as you are in a promoted/advanced state of a well functioning yoga practitioner.Because why stopping practising a perfectly functioning pose and instead not to hold on to it as it keeps then HITTING this BODY large scale,increasing all along the body output of the entire yoga practise session?But no matter whether you are a beginner or are you a master of yoga(even more importantly then indeed),the corpse pose Shavasana MUST be playing the role of this ''the other pole'' to intensive exertions you do while doing poses.In fact in yoga your INTERNAL life processes are heavily overworking;even as they arent visible from the outside,your exhaustion/heavy breathing after it and then even aches(these follow the tiredness suit)IS the sign that it is time for a break;Shavasana gives you enough rest simply FASTER than other ways to relax do.Just to give you an approximate estimation of what EXACTLY is overworking inside of you as you practise yoga(these things arent visible and are even rarely felt inside of you)i will say that your BLOOD this lowest and most important homeostasis level is strongly activizing its internal activity during yoga(it isnt what other workouts are able to give you though),to maybe the 3 times size of what that very blood had been JUST before yoga practising.The blood is this level/bodily mechanism that finally CAN add enough energy to the heavily working bodily parts;the volumes of the blood activity then rise to maybe thrice(a personal estimation that can be NOT correct)of what it performs in normal condition of,say,sitting by a table and reading a book.And this is only the most inner part of what IS going on inside of you as you practise yoga;later get also activized other bodily parts like soft tissues,muscles etc.As a general rule,whenever did you overstretch your resources into a hard condition for your own self,you must later also overstretch the according resting/relaxation period your body will be having JUST to successfully return to the older condition it did have before the start of the exercise that took THAT much power from it,and yoga IS taking from you too much power and exertion.If not getting enough rest the body cannot successfully proceed on with life because its normal life cycle definitely requires BOTH work and rest,each of the 2 rewinding the other constantly.Also here is good the example of a unstable rough sea surface during a storm with waves upon it;in fact the life of a human being IS such a wavy ocean surface with BOTH ups to an amazingly higher level AND downs to a lower than the average 1 too.When you had been just practising yoga poses your ''wave'' of physical activity had been growing constantly;the levels of your body work increasing;then as you get tired and experience aches finally(the top of the cycle of most anything and not only yoga exercising but more too)you start the going down process with no more growing up/boosting internally physically but ''falling down'' already while making Shavasana pose.Yoga practise is EXACTLY like a stormy unstable sea surface;and after a rise of a wave always later comes its fall,also to amazingly low levels(when you are like asleep during Shavasana),and BOTH the rising as you do a pose and the falling down as you relax in shavasana are necessary for the correct cycle going on.An incorrect cycle of yoga(other activities in fact as well)simply will NOT bring you large profits and your yoga practising will not add you what yoga is performed for,and that is INCREASE of your BODILY POWERs and capacities.Yoga is AS much an art and a successful event ONLY if you manage it correctly as most every other life activities' branch.Just to add to the work it did have this relaxation period is existing this dead body pose Shavasana,where your exertion/exercise,simply speaking,is 0;this 0 returns you to normalcy faster than the rest can;so never neglect to finish your poses with enough rest in this 0 pose,the pose of the dead body.Most books recommend it as THE final part of each pose practised;and only for better masters over yoga use of this dead body pose is neglectable(not necessary)if they do NOT feel enough tiredness to perform it afterwards.I personally easily avoid doing the pose after each heavy pose i just did,especially as i just started to practise poses;and use it only when/if well tired;this generally happens during the last stages of my yoga practise.Once in a while i actually FAILED to perform this corpse by mistake;the results always are weird disorientation in the brain,stiffness and exhaustion/incorrect physical performance in the body parts i would be better off without.This corpse pose is also the best for your night sleeping period as the body rests in it better potentially than it does otherwise;the occasions,in which i can fall asleep in the corpse pose i find the best for nighttime sleeping,just that the body isnt always THIS tired as to require ONLY the corpse position.If my day had been somewhat harder than it normally is,i accordingly add to my night sleep additional time,which is almost always 5 hours,additional 30 minutes,and then sleep already 5.5 hours a night,which an addition IS enough for most every additional exhaustion as i find it.Less than 5 hours of night sleep i find NOT enough for ANY level of easiness of a day just passed as the brain,which DOES participate in the body's actions anyways,ALSO gets tired of the actions and IT then DOES require enough rest.AS laying in shavasana you are to remain in this position for like 5 minutes as the authoritant yoga books say;for some and more effective yogis the time is less than that as they regain their power faster;it is a normal thing to be a better or a worse yogi.I suppose that the very end of any yoga session(the time you spend doing poses)is better done in Shavasana with no blankets inbetween your body and the stone floor;as most books(me too)recommend use of a thin blanket inbetween your body and the stone floor under it,they do not intend more exercising of the heart the way i personally use;and the end of a yoga session in my case is the final dissolution of Kundalini powers(the heart is its strongest piece)as no blankets are inbetween stone and the body.Muscles under the skin are made so as to gradually constrict themselves just the way a fat worm in an apple can be seen changing forms constantly;thats JUST how any healthy body is acvting on the insides;and when this fat worm(reminding a healthy body muscles again)is upon a purely stone floor it will die off as it holds on to it NOT allowing the Kundalini worm inside to freely stretch and constrict.The wasted in this way heart IS the sign that 1 needs to leave yoga and end his yoga session;but in a healthy/untired by yoga individual such a natural Kundalini "death" will not come soon at all;only well tired of yoga body will achieve this FINAL effect as it ONLY is good by the very end of a yoga session;i personally find this end of a session more recommendable.Even then the body must be taken off the floor AS soon as the heart is finally agonizing with constrictions/death convulsions and is heaving too heavily;in my case it happens when i am well tired of yoga;normal and untired body wont give this effect and its use actually additionally strengtens the heart and Kundalini the internal bodily muscular system.

VIPARITA KARANI

Out of all the yoga poses this 1 is the easiest to perform,the next easiest 1 after shavasana the corpse pose.Yet along with its ease in performance it also holds some(even as not many)rich gains the body would be getting;gains that headstands only can provide.It makes your condition a very peaceful 1 and you even might doze off in it.This is exactly what you get as you are a novice in yoga,but with time your head gets adjusted to the pose very well and stops dozing off;certainly so it was with myself.Still it has most of the effects most important poses hold,those like shirshasana and sarvangasana,even as in much smaller quantities because the main part of its influence is as simple as the blood going into the other direction-not from head to legs but instead from legs towards brain.Its name,which holds several replacing each other meanings if you play with its sanskrit sense(i HAD been and AM acquanited with those meanings myself as a nice sanskrit specialist once),and this detail is never on with other and more complicated poses,explains to us that of ALL yoga poses this particular 1 had been TOO busily used by old times' minds of countless generations of yogis the followers of physical body perfection techniques;and just as it is with other topics too,THIS 1(of yoga)had been perfected by long use of many generations that practised it.The 2 words Viparita Karani are somewhat like a large amazingly well worked over an anscient graffiti with several meanings in a several languages,including not only sanskrit itself,but also hebrew and english languages;interesting how old times' people managed to intertwine several languages of remote lands in 2 words;similar tendencies i saw sometimes in other life branches inside of Israel,1 more predominantly religious country,just the way it is in India.This thing of a very elaborately detailed graffiti of several languages/several meanings to those is definitely something other and especially more important poses never hold to them.Much more important and serious poses(just the way it also is with people btw)have exclusively simple and even too technical names to them,with such minimally important poses as Viparita Karani is holding on to LOTS of meanings all along.What it shows is that the pose had been often TOO much of a popular refuge for people from hardships they had in their lives and the people that used it werent much of yoga/physical perfections specialists anyway.As it normally anyway is with other topics as well,larger specialists hit the MAIN points and leave smaller ones to smaller specialists;while they work over REALLY hitting people poses of headstands and shoulderstands in particular(these 2 are my OWN most hit poses),less specialized in the topic folks relish the word game instead and SO the great graffiti of the pose's name had come to us in this way.What to speak of people,who are never into ANY exercises,and instead comfort their poor and hardly overworking brains in weird complicated sciences.Because yoga often IS such a refuge from intellectual problems by the way of engaging the body instead of the mind,which is suffering at this particular moment;i use yoga for the purpose of healing my brain pretty often myself;it definitely CAN be used that way very successfully.Because this human organism can only perform SO much of any activities at a particular moment in time and no more;and in case you made your physical body part OVERactive in anything(this is exactly what yoga can achieve)your mental/intellectual organism part is then doomed to lose this exact amount of activity it had been just now performing;or,saying it even simpler,if you are active physically your brain will get very serious relaxation as your blood isnt in it any longer,instead overactive inside of the body itself.This way can it be also used nowadays too as the easiness,with which this pose is performed is ONLY matched with great results 1 can get from it;those reminding a lot the MOST important yoga poses like Shirshasana the main 1 King pose and Sarvangasana its commander-in-chief the Queen pose.This effect is caused by the general change of direction your blood has to accomplish as you are in the pose,the interior organs attempting to follow suit(these latter depend upon the blood in too many respects),reintroducing new mechanisms to do that;as the blood normally flows towards the legs by the gravitational power of the Earth,here it starts already to get attracted towards your brain;this change of blood flow direction is a very strong instrument 1 can use at any time.What CAN suffer the most as you position yourself in this pose are both of your wrists;and 1 will find that making the wrists well busy is very often THE condition for his peaceful life anyway.This is EXACTLY how we see that Viparita Karani had been The Refuge for mostly UNsuccessful in other poses yogis,who nevertheless DID need the protection of physical things in their obviously TOO hard even then lives.Even for me,1 who uses yoga constantly and for well over 1 hour each day,the pressure to the wrists in Viparita Karani pose is the largest i experience while performing the pose,and i am an seasoned many years yogi.To make the pose lay down in the corpse pose;then rise your legs up and put them upon the floor AS far behind your head as you possibly can.This is the plough pose Halasana,and as you take your legs' toes off the ground then and vertically over the body after that with the hands holding the thighs from below and vertically too,holding the thighs by the large bone,situated right above your buttocks,it is already Viparita Karani pose.The best(found only later though)a position in it is when your chin touches your chest in it(the so called Jalandhara Bandha).The hands can be placed either above the head upon the floor or else straight by each body side;the choise is yours,but i prefer the 1st variation and find it more comforting somehow.In this pose you will feel your blood deserting your legs,legs themselves becoming light and bloodless,blood collecting in your upper body parts and the head itself;but the REAL gaining body parts here is not your head(its blood circulation then is well blocked by the Jalandhara Bandha or,simply speaking,the connection into 1 of your chest and your chin),but instead your neck(with a drastically important part of it the thyroid ductless gland)and your upper chest area.This condition is EXACTLY why the main poses are believed to be such-the influence of your blood is really different then-it hits BIG scale not your legs already,but instead your MAIN organism part the brain and its main advisors/helpers the heart,neck and the upper chest region.In most people this sudden and radical increase of blood pressure to the upper body parts is a very radical thing to do and must be performed very carefully.Try to bend your legs into 2 parts at the knees when stable in this pose;your heels so touching your buttocks.This detail is never found in yoga books and i administer it myself pretty frequently.Another additional exercise in Viparita Karani is when you lower 1 of your legs down(holding it straight without any angles in it though)towards your head,till your breathing becomes laboured and then heavy,after which you return to the normal Paripurna Viparita Karani pose each of yoga books mentions,in which you then relax till yes finally able to move on with your yoga exercising.But whichever of the 2 legs do you lower down(till it is parallel to the ground by the way as no lower condition is ever necessary for it),and you can lower each of the 2 at your choise,still the other leg has to remain in its traditional position upwards pointing towards the sky.This interesting effect of laboured and then completely heavy breathing,achieved in this way,is explained if you try to percieve just what exactly happens in your blood system as you lower 1 only leg.Then the sizes of the blood pressure in each of the legs suddenly become different as the blood flows through them already with a higher speed and pressure towards the Earth as you lower 1 leg down;the other leg holding the very same blood pressure all along;and your heart(it is always extra tired as i do lowering of 1 of my legs in the pose)then needs to work with already 2 different blood pressures in generally speaking only 1 bodily system,that of your legs.SUCH weird changes in blood pressure even your heart(a VERY seasoned veteran of working with the blood indeed)isnt ready for;it tires off ALL too quickly,doing this exercise.Now this tiring for the heart a simple exercise can become;and imagine just how much larger a serious set of changes has your heart to be well adjusted to if you introduce liquid feeding into your life!Liquids tend to much easier disintegrate into separate regions inside of only 1 liquid;and EACH of such different layers of any liquid hold inside of themselves already 1)another consistence of the liquid in question,2)another pressure inside of this seemingly 1 a liquid;3)heavy and more concentrated particles in it tend to easily get lower with the Earth gravitational power and leave the uppest parts of that liquid to themselves and comparatively empty too.All this mentioned in some detail,1 can much simpler say that the AMOUNTS of INTERNAL bodily ACTIVITIES of anyone,feeding with mostly liquid foods,INCREASE TENFOLD and this simple a change,once introduced,is destined to completely change one's organism,leading it basically speaking to a very drastic increase of its most basic to life internal activities and,accordingly,to some decrease in its intellectual/mental ones as well as a direct result of the boost the internal ones get in this way.As you do this the body gets additional stretching and sometimes even exhaustion.I constantly do such additional to Viparita Karani exercises,but only till i achieve heavy breathing,which IS coming quickly though;the longer do i hold on to such a legs' bending the heavier my breathing.This must be because of the resulting difference of already 2 blood pressures in 1))the entire body and 2))inside of the area between the knee and the toes.The thing is what happens to your legs,thighs etc isnt AS important as what happens to your heart and the entire blood circulation system as you do yoga poses;the blood being THE main actor in yoga unlike in so many other exercises,most of which tend to lead 1 towards external things like muscles;the blood in fact profits from yoga the very most of any other body parts.Blood though constantly,unlike most any other body part does,keeps circulating around,never tired enough to stop doing this,and so actually is 1 of any human body's MAIN parts and organs.During yoga the amounts of blood pressure each of your body parts has inside of it is somewhat different,even more so than when you are in other,including complicated,life tasks.These exact changes of internal pressure inside of the blood circulation system parts and also the direction of the blood flow inside of you are the MAIN actors of the entire yoga gains game 1 finds as doing yoga poses.And when these 1)) and 2)) coinside,it produces this immidiate heavy breathing effect i am always having when bending my knees while in Viparita Karani.Here we can see just how much larger an importance do have processes that go on inside of one's blood,which in fact is the VERY centre of each human organism,the brain this only presumed head of the state,responsible for mostly external affairs' conduct and solution,and even the slightest change in the blood system(bending of the knees in Viparita Karani IS a very slight change to the blood that nevertheless keeps exercising the blood itself and so is even more important than Viparita Karani pose itself is)is able to do to the body much more than simple poses can.To find overreaction(seen as heavy breathing mostly)of your body to Viparita Karani you must first take your legs radically away from the vertical position,but this VERY same effect is THAT much easier achieved when you simply allow your lower legs' parts to go downwards and touch your buttocks;heavy breathing following suit and easily;and in this simple way we can see just HOW larger an importance do internal processes of our hidden inside organs have;and the blood this MOST internal and ever moving on and on a BODILY ORGAN it certainly is is certainly providing us with more changes than other organs might ever show.The more internal/important/essential for life an organ/bodily part the more is it capable of instant/constant/funnily radical changes of different ways because this is exactly what defines the centre-its capacity to change ways/directions/ways of action etc.Always keep in mind that no heavy breathing is allowed for you;if you do allow heavy breathing you dangerously play with the final capacities your body can allow and the entire game of life is to never endanger the system under your control but instead to practise it,exercise it and SO lead it towards gradual growth and increase in size and capacities along the way.After the knees bending while in Viparita Karani pose you would be then straightening the 2 legs' parts back into the vertical position,but only when you achieve heavy breathing part of this exercise;and such a bending of knees IS an additional exercise you might find in this pose.So i would recommend adding Viparita Karani pose performance with such bending of your knees sometimes too-it makes your blood in particular experience additional workouting;and what DOES gain the most as you do ANY yoga pose is definitely your blood anyway,this extra strong and influential human organism piece we tend to forget about,and which yet has the main role around.The blood,as its direction of flowing is suddenly changing,is bound to come through very serious internal changes with like twice or thrice an increase of its internal activity and speed of action all along,this change being the REAL actively influencing us human beings factor,1 yoga books authors never mention somehow in any detail(i had been reading several yoga books)and yet 1 that REALLY hits our internal health big scale-blood this REAL centre of the human bodily system needs exercises and profits from them even more than other human body parts ever can.As it normally is what we cannot see for the most part makes the largest influence upon our lives;take the brains and their capacities for changing our lives as the proof for this;blood is also such a completely invisible thing,which nevertheless is always active with amazing effects following,just the way the brain always is.But when the brains sleep at night(they need this EXTRA relaxation just to counteract the dangerous external from this system world)the blood KEEPS working ON and on with no stop whatsoever;and this exact larger speed of action/refusal to ever stop it shows us where the REAL centre of a human being is-the centre is always active and never stops.Work with dangerous potentially outside factors(the specialization of our brains that is)though is NOT the real centre so and 1 must keep this in mind as he engages into the ''outside-of-the-system'' activities,which are presumably THE real cause of all that be.Brains are nothing but the Grand External Affairs Manager,the type CIA this specialized(and nothing extremely specialized is ever TOO important for us humans)country part is inside of USA.Highly developed brains CIA absolutely are,but just how critical for REAL life inside of USA are they?Another thing,which also makes additional exercisisng,is when you put both of the legs to its sides till unable to do this any longer(your tendons get overstretched then and refuse to cooperate on with you)and then holding on to this position for as long as you can without heavy breathing following;i personally leave this pose after the said heavy breathing appears;it additionally exercises the body,in particular your tendons those rubberlike joints of the legs;i get heavy breathing from this too.Heavy breathing is no dangerous thing on itself;it simply shows us it IS time to stop what we do to cause it.Each of these additions to Viparita Karani pose(i never see these in yoga books while myself doing them constantly and finding influential too)is recommended into its performance as it additionally improves one's health as the following it effect.Whenever do you do yoga,always avoid heavy breathing as it IS the sign that you MUST STOP yoga practise right away as it means that your bodily system had just reached its level of allowable functioning.This extreme exhaustion following heavier yoga poses naturally,even as yet invisible to a naked eye,is EXACTLY what happens as(i hear this effect often from other yogis myself)unsufficiently practising yogis get various signs of nervous exhaustion while doing yoga poses;they simply failed to do yoga correctly,and this in particular means relaxation AS soon as tired;they simply fail to relax for AS long as their body had been just working out in yoga poses;while 1 of absolute yoga rules is getting NO LESS relaxation and REST THAN ACTIVITIES performed to reach heavy breathing.The levels of exhaustion your internal bodily tissues and organs can find as you do yoga are WAY more serious and potentially dangerous(i'd approximately estimate those as 10 times more than those for the muscles)than those simple muscle exercises can show because the muscles are situated mostly outside of the human system parts and these are never THIS easily injured as their masters the internal tissues are;and accordingly to reach extreme tiredness of these internal organs and tissues is a much simpler task.Funny thing though is that what we DO hear about is always either muscles or intellectual stuff;no internal tissues mentioned all along.When in Viparita Karani pose i also sometimes move my legs(which are normally held in the vertical position in this pose)to the left and then to the right from the body,but not in the vertical position,instead in the line,which is better parralel to the floor though;this is acceptable once you have your pose stable and are able to add to it additional components;experienced yoga practitioners always are good for this.Just that AS soon as my breathing becomes hard/elaborated(this happens the more do i move the legs from the axis of the body)i return them back to this presumed axis,which connects both legs and your head into 1 line.Even as a particular pose IS stable and adding you health benefits you might find additional such benefits in similar exercises,all of which then add to your health.And what yoga provides you with generally is this simple improvement of critical organs in the form of increase of blood pressure to them as you are with your legs up and the main human body system part down towards the earth's centre;no such additional benefits,collected into your general health bank mentioned even as they ARE possible.Such additions will be available only for masters of yoga as beginners will not find them possible-their performance demands a somewhat better internal organs' condition EKA PADA VIPARITA KARANI Theres this sidekick/partner of Viparita Karani a pose,in which while in Paripurna Viparita Karani pose,you lower 1 of your legs,remaining the other 1 in its vertical position,down so that it touched the buttock;then after a bit(and as you feel good in this new pose certainly)you return the leg back into the original facing upwards position;later you do this same with first the other leg,and later and finally BOTH the legs do this very same cycle of "up-down to the buttock-back up";in it the resulting change of blood pressures in each of your 2 legs(blood pressure is increasing in the lowered leg,giving a boost to the intire blood system difference of blood pressures in your legs).If you observe the condition of your heart as you do this particular pose you will see that the heart is heavily overworking in it;in the way other poses often lack showing.This pose in particular(it results in the internal to the blood itself a disturbance of different blood pressure sizes)is boosting the practising your blood itself gets during yoga;and as blood is THE main actor in yoga anyways,enriched and practised in it in ways,while other poses work mostly with increase of metabolism of a particular body part,practised then.Blood though should get its own piece of exercising;just another human organ it certainly is,important and decisive as it certainly IS for the entire human body,its exercising is just another goal 1 must pursue in workouts and while exercising.Of many yoga poses Shirshasana the headstand(you can observe your heart working very heavily as you are standing upon your head as it attempts to adjust itself successfully to the weird changes inside of the body),pranayamas of several sorts and this Eka Pada Virarita Karani too,are working with the blood ITSELF,this decisive instrument of the entire human organism system,practising the blood into a better final condition.Workouts for blood this principal bodily organ certainly DO exist and should be practised too.Killer of human beings number 1 nowadays is undoubtedly the heart and blood conditions;contemporary medicine has the fact in its statistics.