CATANGASANA

This pose isnt seen in any yoga books even as it can be deduced as a part of yoga practise anyway.Most of books on yoga propose us the main and very basic exercises anyway,and we are to develop the theme ourselves afterwards.Yoga books so are nothing but a very general course "one would better know of".Tradition that produced those books(India well before Christ)believed that 1 must develop any theme himself for best results possible.Sometimes a specialist in a theme was a teacher of novices just the way any specialist nowadays has students that try to become masters by watching a larger 1.Some of poses/exercises arent even meant to be displayed as they are potentially much more dangerous for health and might easily endanger your health condition even as their existanse can be deduced out of many other similar/reminding poses;whichever the reason(some are clearly never mentioned in yoga books even as definitely in use by masters)we do not have their descriptions in yoga literature even as they DO exist. HOW TO DO When in Padmasana(you start in it and its the best basic pose to do Catangasana in even as other sitting poses would do too just the way masters describe it),turn your entire body as much leftwards as you can with your face also going as left as it can backbone holding straight preferrably in 1 line all the way,but not with any pressure applied for this at all;**the position must be comfortable in each case**;this latter rule btw is good for any yoga exercise.Stay in this position for as long as you can(i personally leave the position as my breathing becomes laboured/heavy but everyone must find his own best way here)and return to Paripurna Padmasana(this is just what you see in any yoga textbook nominally as Padmasana the lotus pose and the pose,best taken when performing THIS 1,the "crossed legs 1")as tired;the next of the 4(4 = cata in sanskrit,anga=''leaving this centre for that out-of-the-centre'' approximately;and all yoga texts originally were written in that exclusively anscient indian language,the tradition i try to keep to here)positions you take is with your chin and the entire upper body going upwards into the sky;again,as tired of it(and not even as your breathing becomes laboured)you must retreat back to the now comfortable for you Padmasana;the third stage is your body being pulled rightwards(as if you must see something to your right now)till heavy breathing ensuing/loss of comfortability;the last 1 with your chin laying comfortably upon your chest in what yoga masters know as Jalandhara Bandha.Each of these 4 positions pulls your numerous muscles into different directions in 1 single pose/exercise.And after 1 such a cycle you move to the next 1 till the moment you become tired of the pose,not leaving it before that.When in a good condition(sometimes it just wont work as you must be listening to your Kundalini for what it IS ready to perform)i make up to 10 such cycles of "body leftwards-upwards-rightwards-downwards" before i must rest in Shavasana the corpse pose for a while.Most people will find this pose physically too demanding and will not be having any heavy breathing along it the way I personally develop it normally.However,the massage your numerous muscles DO get in this way does deserve its use;the stronger each of your muscles becomes for instance the less possible a heart attack becomes just as well.Such poses both strenghten and gradually elongate your internal muscles,and what 1 sees upon his legs and arms is absolutely less than half of the entire system of muscles;our interior organs holding well over half of this time invisible to us ones too.Stronger and longer though muscles bring healthier heart and also as a long time profit healthier other internal body parts;for instance the digestive system,which is well intertwined with the muscles' one,will then get healthier.What we get inside as our intenal muscles get stronger and more effective roughly reminds a large fat worm of ones we sometimes see feeding itself inside of an apple;as you develop your internal muscles(these though are somewhat different from arms' and legs' ones)they gradually start twitching with exchange of the form inside of us just the way an apple worm(this example is excellent just to understand the resulting influence to the internal health)twitches from side to side in an apple.Its neighbours the other internal body parts like liver,kidneys,spleen etc then get actively pressurized and exercised by these muscles;unable to be physically active upon themselves(their function is mostly to produce certain needed inside life agents out of what we take in a our foods)yet pressured into exercise by these internal muscles(and we all possess these in quantities,even as mostly completely unpractised and in a very weak condition too)internal health of numerous and other decisive for life organs is then guaranteed.After the 4 just mentioned smaller positions you must be proceeding into the next block of 4 smaller positions i just described up there untill the tiredness this pose will bring you anyway becomes a complication.I personally use this pose i never saw in any of yoga/other health related books too each day,find it very demanding physically and eating away amazing chunks of my internal powers very quickly.It is best to use all the 4 smaller positions in 1 single pose practise even as some will find that vertical 2 are better done separately from the horizontal 2;or else vertical ones first and later only horizontal ones.Such a variation does exist but its use simply exercises your muscles in a worse way,which,simply speaking,gives your health less per 1 minute of exercising it.The point of this is to use AS many muscles' pulling/stretching in 1 single exercise as you can because the entire gain you get is then increased several times over;the gain itself being developement of your muscular system harmonically and from many angles of it too. SUPTA CATANGASANA Supta term means ''laying down with face up'' and we perform this very same pose,simply with the padmasana bent legs well above the head and the neck-head block resting upon a blanket.I use both of 1)getting first into Padmasana and 2)performing it while with legs up because for me this is no real complication;yet beginners would better start with Padmasana and then going into the ''legs up'' form(Supta Padmasana pose)as going into the lotus pose while in a topsy-turvy pose(a legs up head down 1)will undoubtedly bring in undesired blood pressure complications 1 always wishes to avoid to newcomers to yoga.I am able to easily be transferred from Catangasana Paripurna(the traditional pose you see everywhere IS Paripurna by traditional books)into the Supta Catangasana variation without complications of any sort,but novices in yoga will find this recommended variation(it simply practises your body better and so IS recommended)hard to perform.You will find that with coming into Padmasana while being in the topsy-turvy position,is only(a desirable 1 though)for masters in yoga and specific acrobatics as it demands from an individual much more capacities.Its preferred performance is recommendable/more desirable though as it additionally pressures your heart and the entire cardiovascular system(arteries/veins,connected to it and moving blood around)so much more and in this way gives it an additional boost/improvement.Again,such details are only for masters of yoga;but knowing which exactly a nicer perfection is awaiting you will undoubtedly boost your entire desire to succeed in yoga and so fasten the process you will follow to get there. HOW TO DO Get into the lotus pose Padmasana.Now push the body upwards with your arms pushing against the ground.Not always easy to achieve,yet with time it will be ok.Now turn your now topsy turvy situated body(legs up head down)leftwards till heavy breathing/discomfort ensues;after reaching it return to the Paripurna Catangasana pose(the basic 1);as well feeling in it finally(might take a bit for newcomers to yoga/this pose),push your legs that are now in the lotus pose downwards so that they preferrably pressed into your abdomen stronger;as uncomfortable,release the pressure you here make upon the abdomen with the heels inside it with;part 3 of the 4(and 4 is CATA in sanskrit)exercise parts is pulling your lower body with bent in lotus pose legs rightwards by the power of your muscles till uncomfortable in it,then you relax a bit in the normal(Paripurna variation)Supta Catangasana and finally 4)pull your lower body as much upwards as able to;in a good variation you will be touching your chin with your bossom now(chinlock in english);this part is very effective with practsisning muscles we almost never use yet which DO need exercise just as well.After finishing this cycle of the just mentioned 1) to 4) repeat it till finally exhausted/tired of the pose;do remember always that(i witnessed ''braking own bones while getting there'' effect myself with some yoga poses-here with yoga this CAN happen unlike in normal life situations as yoga is extremely demanding to your authonomic internal system while i the brain most times operate with external affairs anyway;and know-it IS best to always keep comfortable in whichever yoga pose you are/trying to get into;no final result is ever allowed to tear you off this good state you have to be in always whatever is it you are busy with;and this very interesting lesson only yoga of physical exercises can teach us(even as we need it in each life situation anyway)is 1 of great goods 1 is destined to find in this simply looking physical discipline yoga.Because in yoga there are only 2 variations unlike in normal life:1)We use it correctly and gain or 2)We mistake some steps,make them wrongly and later leave yoga as ''this...".The Supta variation(nondifferent other than done head down legs up)is recommendable as it can interestingly exercise/practise into perfection our blood pressure levels much better than the Paripurna 1;i believe that nice masters of yoga are never subjects to any blood pressure conditions,which are rampant/very destructive nowadays,and even are believed to be ''killer number 1'' of us people yet can be very nicely counteracted with many yoga poses,performed systematically(day by day and month by month i mean,an hour each day or so as nice effects are only to find us with this slow constant approach).Stupid as they might look,the gains 1 finds in such ways is tenfold the amount of physical tension/discomfort 1 simply has to undertake ''to get there'',meaning learning yoga poses performance. SUPTA CATANGASANA Just the way you do Catangasana(preferrably while sitting upright in Padmasana)sitting upright,this pose is practised the very same way,just laying down face upwards.This can be done from Padmasana towards laying down and then pushing your lower torso upwards;or else,and THIS variation demands additional physical capacities 1 might find only later(time brings additional perfection in most any path chosen)you may cross your legs into Padmasana while already being legs upwards head downwards.This variation better practises blood pressure as your heart in it is additionally tasked with pushing the blood through via ways,otherwise never used-with your head down;it is 1 more of topsy turvy poses,great for indulging your blood pressure additionally into working out.Out of many things that CAN exercise your heart and then the thing it does work over tirelessly anyway the blood this most intricate of the body organs blood pressure replacing with a complletely different pressure ones are the strongest and most influencing the blood with great importance;thats because blood pressure changes that occur suddenly at a specific moment,and which are changing the current blood pressure into a SO much larger 1 is actually killer number 1 of human beings;and so when we AS simply as replace our current blood pressure with a slightly different 1(topsy-turvy poses with head down and legs up do this in great sizes)we exercise our blood/heart/internal pressure greatly;and so i highly recommend to(no novices are good here but mostly experienced yogis though)specifically collect legs into Padmasana as already being with head down and legs up-this way exercises the blood system a much better perfection.