Iyengar Yoga: How to Do Padanghustasana and Padahastasana |

In Yoga, two postures play an important role in the purification processes as they reduce the accumulation of fat around the waist and abdomen and act on the internal organs, preventing and curing constipation and other diseases of the digestive tract. They are: Padanghustasana and Padahastasana Padanghustasana.

Padanghustasana is the thumb-to-foot pose, and Padahastasana is the hand-to-foot pose. Push-ups improve digestion, eliminate flatulence and clean the rectum and anus. They massage the liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, uterus and ovaries.

Good blood flow is brought to the spinal nerves and muscles that are stretched and toned during this flexion where the vertebrae separate stimulating circulation around the spine and nourishing it.

The calves are stretched relieving varicose veins and aiding in return to the heart.

Video lesson to learn Padanghustasana and Padahastasana poses

In this video lesson I share ways to transpose actions from Padangusthasana and Padahastasana to Uttanasana, forward bending posture, presented by one of the most respected teachers in the world, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, known as BKS Iyengar and also by Guruji, founder of Iyengar yoga .

It is mentioned by Guruji that if you understand how to do these three postures, you will conquer the basics of push-ups.

We make a division of the sides of the legs with their east, west, north and south faces and we will notice that the guru of the standing postures is our leg (tibia and fibula) because this part moves with a lot of speed.

How to use the slanting plank (ramp as prop) support and improvement? How to use the intelligence of the high inner thighs? How does the movement of the armpits and their elongation happen? How do the sides of the waist and midriff stretch? How to transpose the Padahastasana diaphragm into your Uttanasana? How does your posterior ankle look in each of the three versions? What can we not forget to do with the cartilage in our knees?

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