PINDASANA

Pinda is the way a fresh human being is situated in his mother's womb;also with the legs upwards and bent right above his head,just that your legs here are crossed in Padmasana,and not simply covering your head uncrossed as when you are in your mother's womb.The original position of a not yet born baby is what Ardha Pindasana shows-with legs up,bent in the knees,which try to protect the head of the unborn baby from whatever was it its mother had to come through in our anscient history,when dinosaurs and other wild animals were the deadly for us humans predators,feeding upon us as a delicasy,just the way french up untill now feed upon frogs' legs. HOW TO DO It is when you are in Padmasana the lotus pose while in Viparita Karani pose simultaneously,both the poses done in 1 single approach.Best 1)first get into Padmasana(this is also for beginners as they are weaker and less capable even as:2)when you get into Padmasana already being legs up head down, and 2)is better influencing the health in general.For the harsher variation 2)lay down opon your back and rise your legs vertically with your wrists holding the legs from downwards by the thighs' large bones,situated RIGHT above the buttocks;this is Viparita Karani pose.Now bend both of your 2 legs in the knees and perform in this Viparita Karani also Padmasana the lotus pose;1 who is well practised in yoga can do this pretty easily,but novices in yoga would prefer to:1)FIRST begin with Padmasana,and only THEN put the legs,which are in Padmasana already,up into the air and then over the head itself.It is also performed otherwise,when while sitting in Padmasana you lay down upon your back face up and after this,pushing with both your hands,propell your lower body parts(which are by now in Padmasana)up into the vertical above the head position.This pose becomes Pindasana when you have both of your hands cover your bent in Padmasana legs from both sides(fingers better interlocked together,but can be simply covering the knees as well)and somewhat pushing them inwards towards your stomach,but slightly and never radically;till the moment such pressure becomes uncomfortable.In each of yoga poses it is best to feel comfortable and satisfied with the pose and its effect;no displeasure is allowed for those,who aim at nicer effects from their yoga practises.Once displeased or uncomfortable with any pose 1 nice day you simply will NOT return to it,which effect is to carefully be avoided-yoga is a boon we must cherish as it boosts the health strongly and upon its more important an internal level.At its best performance each pose must please the practitioner and never bring him any discomfort,even as beginners might wanna force the final result upon themselves,the resulting effect of such an overexertion is never that good,sometimes even bringing with itself somewhat injured body parts;i heard stories about some yogis trying a pose and later unable to use the involved in it joints/limbs at all for a considerable time while as that pose managed to injure the entire joint somewhat.Even if you might wanna find the yes awaiting you results possibly sooner,the effects simply arent good with this then and the best option here is just to await the natural increase of mastery over a pose.I find this Pindasana pose 1 of my favourite and most practised ones that i simply like better than other ones.It is influencing BOTH the correct blood redistribution towards your upper body each topsy-turvy pose offers AND the stomach's blood pressure increase too,the digestive body parts making for a very considerable part of each human being's circulation;and this simultaneous pretty radical an action in 2 different directions(blood gathering in quantities around the brain AND strongly increased physical pressure the stomach's digestive organs experience then too)IS the secret behind the large influence this pose can have upon you.Blood is having enough of its influence upon us even when it either increases the brain's blood pressure or that of the stomach and having the 2 going hand in hand together is even a stronger weapon to wield in practising up/boosting the health of the body;this is why this pose is 1 of my own favourite ones as it hits the body from different sides simultaneously.Be careful to stop the pressurizing your stomach with your heels(you will be lowering your legs in Padmasana into your abdomen with pressurizing it)AS soon as you develop heavy breathing in the pose/and or any other discomfort ensuing.If you fail to do this leaving a pose you are performing at the moment the increased internal activity will simply burn out all of your power very quickly and THIS result is better avoided at all costs.The very art of not only every exercise we do,but also every other action we do daily as well is to affect the working currently body part(and no aim we seem to follow then at all)to its utmost without injuring it,then after percieving the correct moment the action has just gone overactive and injurious/exhausting us,to slow down and leave the pose/action at the correct moment without overexerting the body and its parts.This effect of overworking the body over its allowable limits is EXACTLY why most people that try yoga tend to never return to it and then relinquish yoga altogether.So just to be sure you WOULD be back to yoga(its profits are significant)never ever overexert yourself doing poses-displeasure with yoga will definitely bring you to relinquishing this very valuable health mechanism.Yoga is never for tiring off quickly,but instead for gradual increase of your physical capacities;this result can be only achieved with correct management of each pose,and thats means achieving no considerable exhaustion while finding pleasure and comfort as performing well planned physical action.You will be back to yoga ONLY if you find pleasure or comfort in it,so always try to find those while doing yoga exercises.I always practise this Pindasana pose or Embrio Pose as it is translated into english from sanskrit the original language of the older times' texts(as any other 1 too btw)ONLY till heavy breathing appears.If you can always stop pressing your legs into your stomach(thats just how Pindasana works the most and the best)as you develop heavy breathing and then await gradual return to normal condition while still standing in Viparita Karani(or simply releasing your pressurizing of upon your bent legs too),wait till you are able to press your legs back into your stomach again and then return to pressing your legs into the belly again as thing increases the effect,taken out of this pose additionally.To this effect it is best to await the HEALTHY CONDITION you will definitely be able to find in yourself once you stop pressurizing the stomach with your heels;this is simply the BEST way of action,and just the way it is with many things too,once you can perform a specific technological process correctly the success IS awaiting you,and correct performance of a specific yoga pose is definitely such a complicated technological process 1 must be a master of to do well in yoga.I personally account to several/up to 10 times i AM capable to pressurize inwards in that way my stomach,then releasing the pressure upon my hands and so accordingly upon my stomach too and then awaiting this return of my HEALTHY sound CONDITION;this additional pressing of it inwards with both of your heals increases the effect this pose has upon you.If able to return to normal condition after the heavy breathing HAD been just achieved try to repeat the stomach pressurizing again and again for such a better final result without leaving the Viparita Karani pose(the 1,where your legs point upwards and the palms support them from below by the buttocks).Numerous repetition of the inwards pressurizing of the stomach is the sign that you ARE good in Pindasana.Unlike in so many complicated subjects it is VERY simple to confirm your successes here and no complicated point need to be taken into consideration.It is also good and even the best to try to divert the crossed in Padmasana legs to each of the 2 sides after Pindasana pose making as such diversified actions additionally practise the muscles that are close to the main acting in Pindasana ones.Like this at first i take the legs to the left till i reach heavy breathing(after which 1 must stop for a break immidiately till the easy breathing does return,myself returning to Pindasana),after which i perform what traditional books call Pindasana,and after this i take my Padmasana crossed legs rightwards again only till heavy breathing is achieved once again,the main direction of the body's middle part going outwards from the current 1 and never inwards);then i return to Pindasana,then the Padmasana crossed legs movement to the left and the cycle is to repeat in this way till you are finally tired of it and would be better doing some other poses/relaxation(you will feel this moment right away),but ONLY untill you get exhausted of the poses,mentioned here-Pindasana itself and the bent legs' diversions to the left and then to the right;the decisive exhaustion then must be followed by either 1)Shavasana the relaxation pose for weaker individuals or 2)other but definitely new and unrelated poses for stronger people that can suffer through many yoga poses done 1 after 1 without serious exhaustion;such a better condition IS awaiting 1 that spends certain amounts of time for yoga daily.Each yoga follower must try to follow the best routine for his own self and such a best for him routine involves performing poses he likes and finds bringing him the best results.No strict rules 1 has to follow in yoga do ever exist;the best variation for everyone is somewhat different and he must find his best form of exercising himself.Do never play with the REAL capacities your body does show in the form of exhaustion as this is EXACTLY when you have to stop and leave ANY pose AS soon as tired of it/would be better with relaxation;my own experience shows me that this is the best course even as otherwise willing to proceed on mentally.Refusal to listen to exhaustion your body shows will definitely worsen its final condition,then lessen the profits 1 gets from yoga as exercises are stopped being practised and none is interested in this.Except for the traditional Paripurna Pindasana(with the legs in Padmasana pose all along it)there is an easier variation of this pose too;even as i never see it in any yoga books i practise it myself as a separate pose pretty often,finding it a useful even as a less influencing me pose.This Ardha Pindasana pose is even more reminding the position of a newly forming human being as it is still inside of his mother's womb because in this exact pose babies are in the womb of the mother.Paripurna Pindasana(the way the pose is generally shown in yoga books)is this very same Ardha Pindasana pose,but when in the Ardha Pindasana pose,as you cross your legs into Padmasana the Lotus Pose next,you are already in the Paripurna Pindasana variation.So to be in Ardha Pindasana while laying down face upwards you get your legs up,then bend them in the knees and approach the knees to your face,all along trying to keep your backbone possibly straighter.I also add to the block of Pindasana pose variations bending the corpus with the bent by now legs(while in each of either Paripurna Pindasana or Ardha Pindasana poses)first to the left and then(you must stop turning sidewards when developing heavy breathing and not a moment before though)to the right.Such additional sidewards movements add to developement of muscles that surround your legs and backbone.Adding though to their flexibility keeps your backbone well balanced and developed and wards off the well known by the old age enemy of your body stiffness of your entire corpus and inflexibility of the bones and joints because stiffness develops with no corpus movements very naturally and by introducing weird sidewards movements of your corpus you give practise to the otherwise stable and unmoving body parts and they DO need such movements at least sometimes.In our anscient lives as we were once our long gone predecessors lower animals long ago each of our muscles and bones had a very ample opportunity to exercise as MOST of our times in our previous births(we ARE born again in our kids actually)we were engaged in collecting grocery in forests the way wild apes are busy averagely even nowadays.The memoirs of Caesar the old times' emperor of Rome and a very successful military leader(those describe in detail his military adventures throughout Europe)mention that most or well over 50 % of what now is Europe had been 1 wild forest in those times and the times were almost exactly 2000 years ago,right before Jesus Christ was born.And we former apes had been busy then or even before it with nothing else but groceries' collection from forests that ruled the world around us.Movements around forests though are destined to keep your corpus in a correct condition.Such things impossible now,we still have to exercise the body no less than we did in those times simply to keep them in a good enough condition.The currently ruling human bodies curved backbone conditions with suffering of the nervous paths through it and scoliosis a serious developement of those are very well warded off by such exact sideways movements of your corpus(and any other bodily exercises too just we are almost never engage those)and if you practise these consistently those illnesses will not be ever bothering you.So as done with Ardha Pindasana pose(it comes as the body is finally tired of it and starts to ache),first turn your entire body left till it cannot go any further or else you start breathing heavily,then return to the position with your legs right above your head;in this position i always lower down my legs and sometimes even try to press them into the abdomen untill heavy breathing develops;and then turn the entire body rightwards but also only till you reach finally heavy breathing,which always marks the very spot,from which you need to return to your simpler poses that are not followed by heavy breathing.After this i return to pressing my legs into the abdomen,then turning the entire body leftwards etc as i find this exact way of the exercise moovements the best.1 though might find that another way of moving the body around is better for him and that exact way he prefers will indeed be the best for him,but i find this exact way the best for myself.