DWANDVA YOGASANA

Dwandwa Yogasana is when you sit stably in the lotus pose Padmasana and,after achieving it and feeling stable in it too(it takes a minute-2 to get there),you lower your upper body to the bent in padmasana legs so that it touches first the left leg's heel,bent in Padmasana and then(but after getting the body up again and a certain needed relaxation too)the right 1 too after returning for a relaxation to the Paripurna Padmasana(the 1 that you can see in any yoga book on shelves)pose.What influences your health strongly here is:(1)massage the heel gives to your abdominal cavity(your backbone must be AS straight for this purpose as it comfortably can),pressurizing your digestive organs seriously here,and also:(2)additional extensions your connected to the backbone/ribs cage and surrounding it muscles do achieve as the result.It though isnt the heels what turns muscles a lot here;if you consider muscular system(Kundalini)of your entire body,too many of its muscles are at work as you turn from 1 side to the other 1 in this pose;all the muscles of your abdomen,legs,and the chest as well.Yoga in general tends to not only develop,extend and strenghten/elongate one's muscles(THE task most any other workout takes up),but along with it also develop by physically pressurizing them your abdominal cavity's specialized digestive organs like stomach,liver,kidneys etc;and unlike normal workouts,busy with activizing externally visible body parts/muscles,yoga offers its practitioner also internal body parts perfectioning.Always give the body a ralaxing break till it can be back to exercising;in this pose till you again feel comfortable in Padmasana;return to yoga,which seriously overstretches body capacities upon a regular basis as a matter of normal thing,may only be done as you finally feel comfortable in the pose you perform currently and not any before,so watch for signs of physical exhaustion,which must be avoided at all costs-it can very easily happen and really wastes away the great profits 1 can find in yoga.1 who is efficient in Padmasana(not at all normal among people,who may get the body stretched instead till it CAN be stretched out comfortably and no more)will be able to easily touch the legs with his upper chest and even the floor with his forehead;this effect though is not for beginners in yoga.I personally(and i am a nice yoga master now after many years of practising it)sometimes cannot do certain poses correctly(the way they are shown in books),but instead prefer to stop at that exact point in time,where those poses become troublesome and overextending my,let us say,for now pleasant and not demanding this,a request;as THE real point 1 must search in yoga is no ''correct performance of a pose'' but instead physical satisfaction/pleasure and good condition in which you are as you are just out of any yoga practising session/most any pleasing you exercise to that too.Because if you fail to find pleasure and satisfaction in yoga you wont be back to it later.Too many yoga attemptees turned away from it once overpressured in it,and yoga CAN and does overpressure your body easily.DWANDWA is a sanskrit term that tells us that 2 very similar sides of the very same exercise are performed 1 after another continuously;here these are both (1)first lowering to the left and then (2)lowering main torso down rightwards after it.As done with both (1) and (2),keep repeating this cycle till excessively tired of this Dwandwa Yogasana pose.When in Padmasana and lowering the body downwards,it is best to first turn the body leftwards,touching the legs with it to the left so,and then,as back up to Padmasana and fully recovered from it too(1 must wait till feeling good in Padmasana again as up to the lotus pose),repeat the same body lowering to the right side,and to touch the legs with the breast already right from the legs.Such a floor touching with the breast is the best of variations,even as not the only 1 at all.This pose is particularly good for numerous muscles that surround your lower back torso and the lower backbone too.Such a changing from right side to the left 1 is traditionally called ''Dwandwa...'' in yoga.This particular pose(for masters it makes heavy breathing come easily as going down and upon the heels finally)has stronger influence i personally recognize as a stronger that the Yogasana has,it is never mentioned in yoga books yet can be deduced out of general yoga practising.Its additional value Yogasana does NOT possess comes from turning sideways of the backbone and the muscles that surround it especially;the turning that rotates the backbone and its particular backbone segments as well,and SO practises backbone muscles additionally.A master of this pose can make like 20 such turns ''upwards Padmasana-left side Dwandwa Yogasana-returning to Padmasana as tired-right sided Dwandwa Yogasana'' with effects that boost the condition of the entire backbone surrounding muscles following suit and still not overtire the system.This pose though is not for beginners in yoga as it demands a very good condition(and velocity/capacities)of one's backbone and its numerous muscles.This is 1 of my own favourite poses.Do not overtire the system though with prolonged stay in the pose as the condition the system works at can be easily falling;always watch for tiredness/heavy breathing and such to stop the pose right away-these things CAN overheat the sensitive internal metabolism 1 has inside.