Halasana (Plough Pose)

Halasana is so named because the posture assumed in doing this asana resembles a plough, for which Hala is the Sanskrit word. 

This posture also, like Sarvangasana, helps to manage hormones within the body.

Procedure for Halasana (Plough Pose):

• Lie flat on your back with knees bent, feet flat on ground, legs together; arms are stretched alongside the body, palms press into the ground.

• Bring knees in toward chest.

• Extend legs back over your head that the balls of the feet come back to ground behind you.

• Clasp the hands along in front of you and straighten arms on ground.

• Hold for three to five breaths.

• Bend the knees, inserting the proper knee next to the proper ear and also the left knee next to the left ear.

• Release hands and sweep them out and up, therefore hands rest next to feet, palms up.

• Hold for three to five breaths.

• Slowly roll the shoulders and back off to the mat, till hips and feet return to ground in their original position.

Advantages of Halasana (Plough Pose):

• Massages the abdominal organs

• Calms the brain

• Reduces stress and fatigue

• Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause

• Makes the spine flexible, creates energy, and blood of the muscles of the rear

• Aids the functioning of the thyroid and thymus glands so serving to retain the individual's young physical characteristics for an extended period

Therapeutics:

• Headache

• Weight Loss

• Backache

• Infertility

• Insomnia

• Sinusitis

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