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Bikram Yoga Postures |
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Posture 1: Standing Deep Breathing
Benefits: good for lungs and respiratory system, very good for asthma, shortness of breath and nervousness, increases blood circulation throughout the body, exercises nervous, respiratory and circulatory systems. |
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Posture 2: Half Moon Pose
Benefits: increases flexibility of the spine, the sciatic nerves and the tendons and ligaments of the legs, improves core strength and trims the waistline, hips, abdomen, buttocks, and thighs, creates internal heat in the body, improves blood circulation to brain and legs. |
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Posture 3: Awkward Pose
Benefits: improves overall body strength, makes hip joints flexible, relieves joint and muscular pain, increases circulation to the knees and ankles, good for arthritis and gout, great for toning arms and legs, aligns skeletal system. |
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Posture 4: Eagle Pose
Benefits: flushes out the kidneys, brings blood to sexual organs, improves sexual vitality, reduces tension in the neck and shoulders, improves flexibility of the 12 major joints of the body, helps firm calves, thighs, hips, abdomen, and upper arms, good for varicose veins. |
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Posture 5: Standing Head To Knee
Benefits: good for mental strength, improves concentration, excellent for cardiovascular system, stimulates the adrenal glands, uterus, ovaries, and prostrate gland, improves memory, strengthens abdominal and thigh muscles, improves flexibility of the sciatic nerves and strengthens the tendons and hamstring muscles. |
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Posture 6: Standing Bow Pulling Pose
Benefits: great cardiovascular challenge, increases circulation to heart and lungs, opens diaphragm, good for frozen shoulders, improves elasticity of spine, improves strength and balance, activates digestive system, reduces abdominal fat, and stimulates glands and organs. |
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Posture 7: Balancing Stick
Benefits: excellent for cardiovascular system, increases blood flow all throughout the body and arteries of the heart, strengthens the heart muscle, and stretches the capacity of the lungs, provides total spine stretch, firms and strengthens hips, buttocks and upper thighs, good for varicose veins, improves posture, improves muscle tone of shoulders, upper arms and spine. |
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Posture 8: Standing Separate Leg Stretching
Benefits: cures and prevents sciatica, increases circulation to brain, good for psychotic depression, loss of memory, constipation and abdominal obesity, releases tension in lower back, relieves hyperacidity, increases circulation to adrenal glands, improves muscle tone and flexibility of legs and the flexibility of the pelvis, hip joints and the last five vertebrae of the spine. |
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Posture 9: Triangle Pose
Benefits: exercises cardiovascular system, revitalizes nerves, veins, and tissues, increases the strength and flexibility of the hip joints, builds muscle, alleviates saddle bags, slims waistline, good for anorexia, constipation, colitis, blood pressure, appendicitis, hip and back pain, menstrual disorders, obesity and frozen shoulders, helps boost immunity and burns fat. |
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Posture 10: Standing Separate Leg/Head To Knee
Benefits: helps depression, loss of memory, and abdominal obesity, balances blood sugar, helps diabetes, stimulates thyroid and improves metabolism, exercises endocrine, digestive and reproductive systems, improves flexibility of spine and shoulders, slims abdomen, waistline, hips, buttocks and upper thighs. |
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Posture 11: Tree Pose
Benefits: corrects bad posture, increases flexibility of the ankles, knees and hip joints, strengthens oblique muscles, helps to prevent hernia, releases abdominal tension, improves balance. |
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Posture 12: Toe Stand
Benefits: builds patience and mental focus, helps cure gout and rheumatism of the knees, ankles and feet, helps cure hemorrhoid problems, good for hip stretching, strengthens stomach muscles, strengthens weak joints. |
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Posture 13: Corpse Pose
Benefits: returns blood circulation to normal, slows heart rate, reduces blood pressure, teaches complete relaxation, stills and focuses the mind. |
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Posture 14: Wind Removing Pose
Benefits: good for constipation, flatulence and hyperacidity, improves flexibility of hip joints, relieves low back pain, improves digestive system, good for arthritis, circulatory disorders and lower extremity weakness. |
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Posture 15: Sit-Up
Benefits: strengthens and tightens the abdomen and increases the flexibility of the spine, re-energizes the system. |
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Posture 16: Cobra Pose
Benefits: increases spine strength and flexibility especially in the lower spine, helps prevent lower backache and helps cure hunchback, scoliosis, and arthritis of the spine, relieves menstrual problems, cures loss of appetite, helps corrects bad posture, strengthens shoulders, and triceps, good for high blood pressure. |
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Posture 17: Locust Pose
Benefits: increases spine strength especially in the upper spine, good for gout, low back pain, low blood pressure, sciatica, scoliosis, hunchback, slipped disc, tennis elbow, varicose veins, helps firm buttocks and hips. |
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Posture 18: Full Locust
Benefits: increases spine strength especially the middle spine, good for low back pain, helps with low blood pressure, scoliosis, hunchback, varicose veins, firms abdominal muscles, upper arms, hips and thighs. |
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Posture 19: Bow Pose
Benefits: increases strength of the entire spine, improves functioning of the large and small intestines, relieves backache, revitalizes and increases circulation to spinal nerves, strengthens abdominal muscles, upper arms, thighs and hips, increases flexibility of the shoulder muscles, good for anorexia, bronchitis, constipation, diabetes, obstructive lung disease, scoliosis, and hunchback. |
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Posture 20: Fixed Firm Pose
Benefits: helps cure sciatica, gout, and rheumatism in the legs, increases circulation to lower limbs, strengthens and improves flexibility of the lower spine, hips, knees and ankle joints, slims thighs, firms calf muscles, strengthens abdomen, good for lower back pain, helps varicose veins, helps prevent hernia, strengthens psoas muscles. |
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Posture 21: Half Tortoise Pose
Benefits: relieves stress, and helps autoimmune system, normalizes blood pressure, cures indigestion, increases blood circulation to the brain, helps with memory and mental clarity, firms abdomen and thighs, increases flexibility of hip joints, and muscles of the shoulder joints, relieves neck and shoulder tension and low back pain, good for asthma, gout, indigestion, flatulence, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, anorexia, and diabetes. |
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Posture 22: Camel Pose
Benefits: provides maximum compression of the spine, stimulates the nervous system, improves flexibility of the neck and spine and relieves backache, stretches the abdominal organs, throat, thyroid and parathyroid glands, helps autoimmune system, firms and slims the abdomen and the waistline, excellent for good postural alignment. |
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Posture 23: Rabbit Pose
Benefits: provides maximum extension of the spine, improves nervous system, increases the mobility and elasticity of the spine and back muscles, improves digestion and helps cure colds, sinus problems, improves thyroid and parathyroid glands, relieves tension in neck, shoulders and back muscles, good for depression, headaches, insomnia, diabetes and respiratory illness. |
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Posture 24: Separate Leg Stretching Head To Knee
Benefits: balances blood sugars, enhances the proper functioning of the kidneys, increases circulation, improves digestion and relieves chronic diarrhea, improves flexibility of the sciatic nerve and joints, increases flexibility of the last five vertebrae of the spine, excellent for the immune and lymphatic system, good for allergies and arthritis. |
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Posture 25: Spine Twisting
Benefits: increases circulation and nutrition to spinal nerves, veins, and tissues, and improves spinal elasticity and flexibility, improves flexibility in the hip joints, relieves back pain and helps prevent slipped disc, good for scoliosis, hunchback, and arthritis, calms the nervous system, helps rid the body of toxins. |
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Posture 26: Blowing in Firm (Breath of Fire)
Benefits: helps to detoxify, strengthens all the abdominal organs and muscles, helps trim the waistline, increases circulation, improves oxygenation to body. |
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