SHUDRA SHIRSHASANA

This way of performing headstands involves holding the entire body weight only upon your fingers,so that the fingers form the only layer that stands inbetween your head and the blankets supporting you from below(there must be like 5 thin blankets but never fat ones under your head here for better results).To get into the pose first perform normal Paripurna Shirshasana they show us in all yoga books 1 can find,and then pick the body a bit upwards with the power of your arms(this might be somewhat problematic even as yes recommendable for yoga beginners)and shoulders while holding your legs closer to a wall to prevent falling down,then lower your body to the fingers,both palms' fingers intertwined into 1 single block with no empty places among the fingers at all as this way it is performed best and no mistakes in such details are allowable.Yoga is a serious discipline and just like in any other such 1 unless 1 follows all the details correctly he will not find the desired result "at the end of the road".There is highly specific technology to it just the way any complicated science holds on to;and unless all its details are correctly done no nice result will be achieved.1 though must watch out for the fingers' skin to be free from cracking open and exposing the lying under the skin finger tissues;such an effect IS possible and must be carefully avoided;with time you will be capable of easily percieving the moment,after which the skin upon your pressured upon fingers would start cracking;the time will come for you to be able to recognize this moment pretty well as yoga performance is 1 of things that do increase one's sensitivity levels considerably and nicer sensitivity to things is a must to percieve dangerous situations like fingers' approaching cracking open of their skin;and stop performing this Shirshasana variation as the moment of cracking fingers' skin approaches.There is also 1 more effect Shudra Shirshasana brings its constant practitioner-that of constant pressure upon Kundalini(the entire muscular system inside of the skin and it is SO much more sizeable than the 1 we see in our byceps and other externally visible muscles too)with loss of undesirable effects Kundalini(simply speaking the muscular body's system)is capable of bringing upon a human being-overactive physical body 1 then simply HAS to deal with even as sometimes it is better to avoid such exercise for certain outsider results;this effect of oversized/greatly increased need for physical exercises' performance normally awaits both yogis and other athletes as well as yoga simply speaking is just 1 more,even as a highly original 1,a sport;the effect of managing the overactive body as it needs action while the brain instead needs peace and stability;and while in this particular pose 1 will have his Kundalini much under control as pressure upon the fingers increases sizeably and fingers' muscles are a very sizeable Kundalini piece other people will be dealing with it with normal ways;and in this way performing Shudra Shirshasana is certain to relieve your physical overactivity with recommendable for obtaining effects of diminished physical body overactivity along with this too;as our contemporary world dictates sizeable mental and intellectual activities performed on a regular basis and yogis are too physically developed to obtain sizeable physical peace,needed for intellectual activities to develop,Shudra Shirshasana will decrease the physical body/Kundalini demands with relief for the mentality as well;THIS effect this particular headstand variation does have will not be available to other headstand variations' practitioners and other physical workouts too.Wise people never stake upon 1 part of the system only and provide for most of the system's pieces just as well;in this way the entire system is well worked over and without losses in any particular spot;and i mean sportive people generally lack intellectual/wisdom developement here;this pose though helps to keep Kundalini in check to add once in a while to 1's brains just as well.This pose though is certainly more demanding than headstand normal variations(Paripurna pose by yoga works)are(as shown in yoga sources)as in it the pressure,applied to your fingers(which ARE under heavy physical pressure then)is reaching extra sizes 1 never sees otherwise,sometimes dangerous and resulting in open wounds the fingers' skin develop so.Once upon a time some while ago i myself wasnt careful enough and DID allow my finger to skin crack;outside of loss of capacity to perform headstands after this for some weeks,the skin of the then injured finger remains hard and inflexible up to this very day,this effect is best left aside to never bother you.Unless 1 watches his fingers carefully and removes the body's weight from them AS soon as they start suffering Shudra Shirshasana might indeed be even damgerous for your fingers.And the skin that HAD been injured then is definitely NOT the main player in it all,because sometimes the finger gives trouble even after no skin injure Shudra Shirshasana sessions might bring;meaning that injure was also upon a deeper cellular level,tissues keeping up with inworsement.Up untill this very day i have a rough and bad skin condition upon the finger,where once a large crack in that finger's skin cover opened,failing to find sufficient recovery for some motnhs after it all.There are though great uses in the pose,in particular much stronger blood circulation(as a part of your organism the fingers are well connected to other arterial tissues just as well)and other essential homeostatic processes deeply increased too that are then taking place inside of your fingers(and these are almost never taking place in other exercises).This particular pose is one's strongest ally against psychotic conditions 1 wishes to avoid.Funny as it may sound,the more nervous and psychotically active are you the more active and staggering your fingers always are;and the head that presses upon the fingers from above them holds those in a straight line under considerable bodily weight pressure,completely neutralizing and ''taking out of the game'' as they say the neurotic activity 1 might be showing in heavy life conditions.Energy though that is activizing the fingers in this way then keeps supporting the brain in a stable and desirable condition for it;and such ARE highly desirable for correct behaviour sometimes;and thats why i think this Shudra Shirshasana variation of headstands is this influential with neurotic and psychotically dangerous life conditions;and these latter ARE a real and aggressive danger to 1,being able to take 1 off his own course of action very much easily.Take for instance the famous in contemporary history assassin of late president Kennedy;i am positive that in case(and he certainly had a very serious neurotic condition as he was shooting then)he did hold himself in this Shudra Shirshasana pose for AS long as only 5 minutes(it DOES take some time to get the desired effect anyways),his entire desire to kill the president would evaporate into nothing;and no larger prize than saving one's life(mr Kennedy was doomed anyway)is around.Just the way it also is with Brahma Shirshasana,this pose is also very demanding not only to your fingers(to your backbone in case of Brahma Shirshasana),but it is also much harder to hold on to in those 2 just mentioned poses than it is to the normally seen in yoga literature variation of headstands(Paripurna Shirshasana the term here).And as it always is with things of larger principal importance,the poses of Brahma Shirshasana and Shudra Shirshasana will be somewhat harder to accomplish/hold on to for any considerable amount of time;this specifically applies to Brahma Shirshasana and less so to Shudra Shirshasana,which are harder to hold on to and so they do take from you less time you CAN spend in the poses.As what the public knows as headstand is the Paripurna Shirshasana variation only,and it is the simpliest(yet not the only 1)of several variations headstand pose can have.Among different Shirshasana pose variations that are decisive for solution of different psychotic influences upon an individual this particular pose is the strongest weapon 1 might wield to hold on to his healthy psycho and nicer nervous health too;like this Shudra Shirshasana is the best thing to use to 1)heal one's head out of different bad/undesirable mentality situations 1 might wish to avoid and there ARE such situations nowadays,when the amount of data that potentially can bring havoc to one's mind is this considerable;and also 2)significantly increase the homeostatic processes one's fingers hold to them and also 3)make one's nervous brain cells sufficiently active even with NO DETAILED SCIENCES applied,yet fully increasing the activity of one's brain all along this pose performed.Keep in mind that when you hold your entire body weight upon your fingers(there MUST be a lot of thin soft blankets under them to avoid their skin destruction though)and the fingers you press upon in this way are mostly the smaller fingers like pinky etc interestingly quite naturally,the nervous threads that pass through them activize upon a very large scale,and so they pressure the lower organs that are connected to them additionally into action that is much stronger,which then boosts the internal activities those lower organs even themselves are normally performing.This is why i believe that such specialized headstand variations possess a much stronger health boosting action than the Paripurna Shirshasana itself does(this pose is exactly how we see headstands in popular literasture).Other variations of Shirshasana pose arent capable of making your ''gray cells''as science calls them(brain based neurons)perform satisfying them neuro activity,yet THIS variation definitely can,because fingers' neural tissues are richly connected to the brain itself and so are activizing the brain upon a large scale as they(the neural paths,connected to fingers' tips)are activized themselves.And it is of no real importance/meaning just which exactly a way of activization did the brain cells get as long as they ARE getting serious activization;and brain cells DO get active upon a large scale with AS simple an action as this Shudra Shirshasana pose performance.Meaning,for instance,that you will NOT need that much of mental activity daily if you simply use this particular headstand variation performed regularly each day;and when ''those'' outside to this body actions definitely lose ground in this organism,the very same action is yet added to this very body as the activized neural paths also tend then to activize INTERNAL bodily issues and schemes that keep metabolism of this body upon a higher state and condition.And ''these'' internal actions will get the very same amount of action that ''those'' outside ones lost just now;because this body is made so as not to lose any action and simply divert the energy they were spending elsewhere into a new,even as unknown by now,an action.1 may even program such changes himself,just the way this pose does.No other pose has larger healing influence upon one's brain than this Shudra Shirshasana has.I account Brahma Shirshasana as 150 % of what Paripurna adds to my overall health;and this Shudra Shirshasana as 130 % of what the very same time,spent in the regular headstand variation Paripurna Shirshasana brings me,simply because their influence is somewhat larger upon any individual.You will see that both these weird sounding(yet much useful in specific influences upon your health these provide nevertheless)poses of Brahma Shirshasana and Shudra Shirshasana hold to them stronger influence upon your health than the regularly shown in books variation of Paripurna Shirshasana(the headstand pose variation,most commonly seen inside of yoga books nowadays)can ever do.However,1 must carefully watch the condition his fingers develop as he stands in this particular pose.AS soon as his fingers start suffering from it(several minutes per 1 time ARE enough for myself,and i am a seasoned shirshasana user,who performs it daily for like 50 minutes for years by now),1 must immidiately leave the pose for relaxation in Shavasana The Corpse Pose.For many people also such weird variations of headstands might mean real endagering of their backbones;as what we see in sources and by my own account is Paripurna Shirshasana is not even closely AS dangerous to the backbone condition as Brahma or Shudra or yet Nasa Shirshasana ones;for some people these particular headstand pose variations might bring backaches and more;so watch it closely as ANY ache you develop has to mean immidiate stop to the headstand you are performing.In case these conditions arent kept up to(here i mean standing upon one's fingers for longer than the pressure applied starts harming the fingers' skin;or else standing in headsand for longer than till any backaches start appearing too)the fingers' skin is certain to rip open,the fingers' skin opening the flesh under them,later much worse healing than normally a finger's skin would,and the time for it to heal(well over 1 month,yet the skin condition always worse afterwards too)makes the entire story NOT worth pursuing.