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Asanas, pranayamas and mudra to strenghten your back | pranas and Nadis

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The spine is one of the body's areas that doesn't receive the sufficient care and attention that it deserves. Modern lifestyles have created more problems than have ever been seen, such as, wrong prolonged sitting posture, sleeping late hours and sans exercise, all these factors are responsible for the weakening of both back muscles and abdominal. In the process of demanding more and more comforts, we are at risk of continuously losing the very essence of health. There are many asanas in yoga that strengthen your spinal cord; such like as, dhanur asana is known as the bow posture, shalabha asana known as locust posture, bhujang asana known as cobra posture, chakra asana, and ushtra asana and these of five asanas are backward bending, while forward banding asanas comprises with janushir asana, paschimottan asana, and Maha mudra. Pad hast asana is standing forward bending asana. All of these asanas are helpful to strengthen your backbone and abdominal organs and helps the pr

Warm-up your body before doing any asana for good results

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To stay safe and get the most out of your workout you must comprise with warm-up exercise before doing any asana for good results. Warm-up exercises let you stretch more ahead than you normally would do; as it is preparing you mentally and physically for doing yoga accurately. Proper warm-up may reduce the risk of any injury, rarer chance to be left even in maximum efforts being done; the exercise should start with jogging, walking and running, and skipping. A warm-up that you need to get done before postures that create a step-by-step strategy to take –off your next move; so that, you execute your most difficult asanas smoothly, further to do meditation most efficiently easily. Body rotation asanas or warming-up asanas are Sarvottan, Skandh chalan, pag chalan, Nabhi chalan-reverse Nabhi chalan, and Bal Machlan. Body rotation warming-up exercises should be performed before any asanas to ensure the desired results. It comprises of neck rotation, shoulder, elbow stretch, hand-wris

Alzheimer's disease | How to control it | How yoga helps to prevent it | Meditation, asanas, pranayama and shat-karma

Alzheimer's disease named after Alois Alzheimer a German neurologist who described the disease in 1906. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive form of presenile dementia that are similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s. First symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally helplessness. More than four million people in India suffer from some form of dementia and this number is growing at an alarming rate. It is a brain disorder disease that impacts one’s ability to think and remember; brain cell connection and the cells themselves degenerate and die, the tissue has fewer and fewer nerve cells which results in memory loss and other mind related issues. Alzheimer's disease destroys neurons and its connection parts of the brain including the entorhinal cortex (A part of the brain which, together with the hippocampus , is important for memory functions), hippocampus as well as affecting the cerebral