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 upon a time as i was not adjusted to it and only started to use the pose,i got severely cracked skin upon 1 of my fingers;since then i am extra careful;with time though you will find yourself a great recognizer of symptoms that precede fingers' cracked skin and so avoid it altogether.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 is exactly how the now alive/being in a great physical shape a worm of internal musculatute behaves in a sportive individual.This particular pose i never saw in any yoga connected books relaxes/diminishes this influence of internal musculature overactivity 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.For some(all sportive folks,me included)being stable in 1 position just isnt a good thing to do,and sportive people will find in Shudra Shirshasana a great way to diminish this effect as they also need things intellectual to perform,what i always try to keep to-using BOTH nicer brains AND nicer internal organs' condition.Living with only 1 of these 2 sides 1 better DOES have in quantities just isnt a good way to live.Shudra Shirshasana is quite a problem for the skin of your fingers;especially if like i personally do you never eat any animal products;these latter tend to keep your skin in a perfect condition;such are the qualities of what a very famous author of Arabian Nights book called "Khalif for an hour";animal foods give 1 powers he most times(thats me in particular)does not have and will not possess,unless for a "Very Short Time";analogy to "Khalif(king) For An Hour clear;its same exactly.My sking under fingers' knuckles cracks open really easily;to lessen this effect keep several layers of thin smooth clothes inbetween the fingers and the head(fingers ONLY spread the 2 in Shudra Shirshasana).You really wanna keep your skin happy here;1 spot i failed to protect that got cracked some years ago(the Sapta finger)keeps ailing and making protests each time i get myself up over my fingers even now,many years afterwards.Thats exactly by-the-way why yoga masters of yore never mention this headstand variation in their books(as so many yoga details just as well too)-searching through hidden continent completely upon your own DOES and will threaten your health 1 nasty day.