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.