Yoga Cobra Pose for Healthy Back

Yoga Cobra Pose for Healthy Back:


Kundalini Yoga Cobra Pose Practice Details:
a. Step-by-Step Instructions for Kundalini Yoga Cobra Pose:

Lie flat on the floor, stomach down and feet extended.

Place your hands near your shoulders and then raise your upper body and torso up off the ground. The upper thighs should remain on the floor. You back should arch up.

Turn your head up and look upwards as well. Stretching your neck.

You can either do Long Deep Breathing or do the Breath of Fire Breathing Exercise.
As a variation, you can go up and down in cobra pose. Coming up and breathing in, holding the position for a few seconds and then coming back down and exhaling.

b. Duration for Kundalini Yoga Cobra Pose:

15 Seconds - 7 minutes.
Start slowly and build up your time steadily from there.

c. Benefits of Kundalini Yoga Cobra Pose:

Very good for improving the health of the back and spine. Good for toning all the back muscles and tissue related to the vertebrae.

Massages all the digestive organs improving both digestion and elimination. Works on balancing both the manipura (navel) chakra and the swadhisthan (sex) chakra.
Works on all the nerve junctions that lie along the spine, as well as the important psychic channels that run through the spinal cord.

Works on improving functions of the ovaries and reproductive glands.

Works on the thyroid and para thyroid glands and the vishuddhi (throat) chakra.

Opens up the heart chakra (anahata) promoting softness of character.

Good for improving vision and toning the optical nerve.

Builds upper body strength. Specially the shoulders (deltoids), triceps and chest (pectoral) muscles. This is more true if you use the modified version of cobra pose where you go up and down.


d. Practice Tips for Kundalini Yoga Cobra Pose:

Careful with your lower back! Do not over strain.

Also, careful with the elbows if you are using the bent arm version.
Going up and down in cobra pose is excellent for building strong arms, shoulders and chest muscles without risking injury."


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