SHUDRA SHIRSHASANA

HOW TO DO When upon your head and stably at this position,use the power of your arms/shoulders to move the head so as it stood directly over the fingers,pressing them hardly into the blankets that cover the surface you stand upon.Several thin blankets that serve as protection against the stone floor(use exactly this way as only it helps your fingers best)will make sure your fingers are well,and even as they MIGHT be injured under the weight of your body the pose is a recommended thing because during it the fingers themselves obtain much richer blood supply than they would find otherwise;and developement of those internal tissues is an important article in the internal health just as well.Watch out though not to disrupt the integrity of the fingers' skin,which might happen if you use the pose frequently.Once with larger practise of this pose(it will take from you several months to be real good at it)you will know exactly when you must leave this position to avoid destruction of the skin cover your fingers hold;as if NOT leaving this pose at the correct time you can damage the skin cover of your fingers;this happened to me once as i just started headstands' practising,cracking open the fingers' skin cover,which wasnt able to recover for over 2 months later inrecall.As i myself use this pose frequently i put myself upon my fingers pretty easily,which wont be the case for most people.This pose has also another effect-that of practising your fingers with no occupying them in ordinary activities;both the latter and this pose activize fingers' tissues with improvement of blood supply to them;and just the way yoga as a subject does to body in general,here too no additional to body internal affairs stuff is ever involved in increase of size and capacities the practised tissues are involved into;and this thing is only possible in normal life when you are busying your fingers with activities of many sorts;here NO activites are even necessary for this end.Yoga in general is leading us in this extraordinarily wise and useful a way of practise and increase of the tissues with no increase of external to this body stuff at all.Theres another impact this pose makes;it somewhat restricts active movements healthy body always has to it as a natural quality.Sportive people always have this overactivity their Kundalini(the internal muscles horse shortly)possesses;roughly speaking(scientific terms arent always practical),their muscles twitch and turn around ever so slightly inside of their bodies,never stopping this internal movement around just the way a fat worm twitches around inside of an apple.This particular pose i never saw in any yoga connected books relaxes this influence and after it your Kundalini already does not move your body THAT much,and in this way mental and other affairs naturally tend to get disrupted and slow down as the fingers had just been pressed hard to a stable spot for minutes at a time(i personally spend in such a pose like 5 minutes at a time and often more than once a day too);its overactivity(sportive people always have this effect they not always wish around for other,not health related purposes)significantly decreased.This indeed disruption to intellectual affairs one has to follow in life can be counteracted with Shudra Shirshasana pose quite effectively.

NASA SHIRSHASANA

NASA sanskrit term is meaning NOSE in english.This headstand pose variation i never saw in any yoga books. HOW TO DO You start with the regular headstand(Shirshasana in sanskrit),from which you(as well in the pose and this will not always come easy)transfer your head to the new position while the rest of the corpus is stably vertical.In this position your nose is touching the surface(best several layers of thin blankets)over its full lenght,now laying upon the blanket /pressing slightly over it completely.This wont be easy for starters,but with time it will eventually work out just well.I use this particular headstand pose variation pretty frequently.In case you stood upon your nose(roughly speaking,it IS whats going on then)for like 10 or more minutes you will find that both your neck region of the backbone and the waist related 1 backbone piece as well(the latter less so even as with similar effects)had been just now greatly overworking and experienced heavy pressure to lenghten/extend towards the outside the both backbone pieces.This spesific variation of headstands i would greatly recommend as nice medicine with healing effects for sufferers from scoliosis and/or similar backbone conditions because this pose tends to greatly develop your backbone piece inbetween the neck and the chest and in this simple way counteract the overactivity the badly bent piece of your scoliosis touched backbone is suffering from.Overworking/bending yet another,even as a well different to it,a backbone piece is taking the pressure off the suffering from scoliosis backbone part,and it is always the part,where you either feel aches at or else 1,which pieces are somewhat increased in size as they only grow in size after considerable overworking and this always happens at the very spot,where damaged and overly bent backbone is situated.As your feelings will tell you first hand the scoliosis hit backbone piece(almost always the centre to upper backbone 1)is never touched by the pose while the 2 pieces i mention above are greatly overworking,taking the part of backbone suffering along with them;as most times backbone will make you problems(if you suffer from scoliosis the bent backbone condition)in its middle and in THIS pose other pieces are overworking inastead,the injured generally breast piece will find relief as those 2 other backbone pieces had been just trying the same work themselves;pressure they 2 take always takes the bad scoliosos producing pressure off your back too.This pose i often use is never seen in any yoga books and its good influence over scoliosos sufferers is clear;once a while ago a sufferer from scoliosis myself,i know just how influential Nasa Shirshasana might be for scoliosis sufferers.The injured backbone disks(the entire backbone is made of as i recall about 32 small disks/pieces)are only in danger as they themselves without any other disks' support in this suffer inbetween similar didks that make the backbone up.Similar backbone items that suddenly undertake increased pressure themselves just as well then tend to take a part of the pressure off the injured pieces to suffer along with them;this is exactly what Nasa Shirshasana does as instead of only 1 injured disk now already 3 backbone pieces all share the pressure along with it.If you stand in Nasa Shirshasana for a longer while you will find those 2 pieces(neck 1 and the waist 1 too as the latter piece then tends to overwork along with the bent neck 1)are suddenly aching from heavy pressure that had been just applied to them.Sufferers from backaches/scoliosis know the feeling all too well;but here the neck and waist pieces will not be heavily aching as they arent generally overbusy the way the hit by scoliosis piece naturally is;those 2 are taking heavy weight upon them for only several minutes;yet this will make them gradually grow in size,taking off and to themselves pieces of pressure,the bent scoliosis piece makes you suffer from.Theres the question of ability of yoga students to perform this or similar overly heavy yoga poses though;as i do headstands nowadays,after like 30 years of constant attempting the pose myself daily and not once a singular day too i remember the days i just started performing headstands,when i did have backbone aches in case i did not perform headstands correctly,was in real danger of falling over or else had whites of my eyes sometimes flocked with blood that entered them because blood pressure rapidly rises dramatically inside of your head/eyes as you are well upon your head;the thing that never endangered my vision yet was not plesant to behold.Those days are well over for professional headstand users as they attempt the pose often and ARE good at it,myself included.In each case you must remember the main rule,which will not allow you to go astray/do any incorrect move with headstands and yoga in general,which just might be pretty dangerous in case it had NOT been done correctly:ANY ACHE or complaint of weakening condition/feeling not well-LEAVE THE POSE now to return to meak laying upon the floor till good condition has been returned.Just the way tradition calls us to perform,then lay down till the very moment your breathing HAS returned to normalcy,which you see,when sitting by a table for a while.Novices will need more than 5 minutes of complete rest after complicated poses;the sign they CAN get up and resume normal activities here is return of the breathing pattern we observe here when sitting by a table in a relaxed manner over some easy task;not before this though;number of 5 minutes yoga books mention for laying down to recover normal functions is a very approximate 1 and will not do for everyone.Keeping to this rule for yoga with this rule will take out all the complications you might find in yoga as some golden rules must be followed.Nasa Shirshasana will continue to bend your backbone outwards(head moving backwards and skywards)with time while your scoliosis works into bending it inwards(towards the stomach/the heart and the face moving towards your stomach)and in our age of scoliosis it is a powerful tool to avoid bent backbone conditions.While it isnt too comfortable sometimes to stand upon your head,where a novice always finds himself about to fall down/extremely uncomfortable,1 more point of support,which here is well away from the shoulders the main body weight support,(nose IS 1 here)will make this headstand pose more stable and it will be less dangerous to fall over.Always watch out though for considerable(not in any way comfortable)aches your backbone makes to warn you that something IS wrong with it and you must stop the thing.

HASTA PADMASANA

HOW TO DO:When stable in Padmasana(always takes a minute or so to be finally comfortable in any pose),have your right hand pass through the opening under the left knee;both the ankle and the thigh in different/perpendicular to each other positions by now.Now have your palm face upwards and pulling the legs(both in a knot of Padmasana)rightwards/upwards too;all along do watch that your face and the rest of the body is stretching itself leftwards,into a completely different direction,producing interesting amounts of pressure upon your inner body parts like abdomen organs etc.Hold on to this pose for AS long as feeling well in it and not in any way suffering from it.This is 1 single series of the pose you've just done as you are retreating back into Paripurna Padmasana;and yogis that are good in this art will produce in this very pose several series/approaches to this inverted pose,exerting additional pressure upon your mostly digestive organs;best to make several such series/the more the better,exerting additional pressure all along;in 1,well accustomed to such thingies,good condition returns pretty easily;the more episodes done by the end the healthier your interior will be with time;digestion and good overall condition increasing with time.After done with right hand/left knee part,retreat into Paripurna Padmasana pose;rest till feeling great once more;then do the same for the other body part:push now the right knee area upwards with your left hand,passing through the right knee empty spot,"till death do us part" as they say,meaning simply till unable to proceed out of real tiredness that eventually will find you.This addition to Padmasana pose i never saw in any books on yoga,including major ones;some additions arent worth mentioning even as they DO exist;THIS 1 IS worth additional mention as the pressure,exerted in this way upon your inrterior organs is pretty radical and helps internal health a lot if you know just how to apply it correctly,which is an art 1 can and should learn too.Thats just why all the older texts need a contemporary reassessment nowadays-additions we might give to them are all way too important and interesting;and btw this casts a weirdly large shadow upon all the "ever-unchangeable and stably same ever life standards" religious people always do want us to follow.And thats while MY religion gives me better results than THEIR 1 ever can.Remember to leave this(or any other pose too)AS soon as finding yourself even remotely UNcomfortable with the current pose(or any other doing)you are doing.Breaking up/leaving forever with any subject is always following DISpleasure with it;yoga no different from other topics too,learn to use this rule in simple things(yoga and swimming are great to learn such thingies,which later move on to more complicated life subjects just AS well);to later use this rule in more advanced and complicated life areas just as well.DONT LIKE-OFF YOU GO would be the rule.Uncomfortable life would cost you more 1 nasty day than what you spend,supporting it alive.