Bhujangasana has manifold health benefits and helps you get rid of many physical and mental problems. It makes your body flexible and helps you get rid of many problems that come along with growing age. Read more to know how to do it, what are the benefits and what are the precautions while doing it.

You must have heard that yoga is good for health. Many of you must have tried and even felt better while doing it. But do you know the specific benefits that it gives to your mind body and soul? Yoga provides flexibility and strength to your body parts as well as helps you get relief from some pains along with toning your muscles. In addition to all this it improves breathing of the person and reduces stress, increases body awareness and provides mental calmness. 

Many think that yoga means postures that are usually difficult to perform and are deep and complex back bending. But, this is not the truth. You need to start with simple and basic yogic exercises if you are a beginner. Only once you are used to of the bending and stretching, you can start the asana that are complex or semi-complex like Bhujangasana.

Benefits of Bhujangasana 

• Bhujangasana is a yogic exercise that helps relieve back pain and is very good for people who have lower backache. Even the cases of slip disc get helped and you would probably get rid of your back problems completely if you do this regularly.

• This posture helps reduce stiffness in the lower back of the person and strengthens the arms and shoulders as well.

• It also helps relieve the stress and fatigue.

• It helps women in coping with menstrual irregularities, as it tones up the uterine muscles and ovaries.

• It helps recover from wet dreams and leucorrhoea.

• It provides benefits to liver and other related organs.

• It helps reduce acute gas troubles if this asana is done regularly.

• Bhujangasana helps strengthen the spine and stretch the chest, abdomen, shoulders as well as helps in firming the belly also.

Bhujangasana – How to do it

Step 1 – Lie on your stomach and rest your head on your arms.

Step 2 – Look forward and try to raise your body keeping the body weight on your chest.

Step 3 – keep your hands on your sides with your palm resting on the ground.

Step 4 – Raise your body by pushing your hands against the ground and try to go up till you feel a slight stretch in your belly.

Step 5 – Wait for 5 seconds, hold the position and then come down gently. This posture should be repeated slowly and starting from 3 times you can take it to 5 times after you get used to of this exercise.

Bhujangasana is also known as cobra pose and it teaches you how to bend and manage the movements of legs, pelvic and belly. The common errors that occur doing this yoga are over arching of neck and excessive bending of the lower back. In fact, this posture will help you feel the relaxation in your neck and lower back if you do it properly and slowly.

There is a misconception among people that if you will stretch your body to its maximum or more, you will get more benefit. This is completely wrong. Every yogic posture should be done slowly, paying attention to breathing as well. The stretching should never be done in excess.