Release and Relax

OHHHHH….AHHHHH, aiyah I feel so full, like bloated leh, my food is like at my throat.

We all have that one friend who just gorges down all the food without thinking and then feels bloated and keeps rubbing his/her stomach like a pregnant lady, or maybe that friend is you!

Either way, I am here to say that Yoga has a solution for you.

All you foodies, whose mind goes blank when they enter the buffet hall, listen up!

First of all, let’s get one thing straight, I am not encouraging you to join a pie eating contest or any other stuffing-food-down my throat contest. No please don’t do that.

Gastric issues arise from various different situations, one very common one in our fast pace lifestyle is gastric due to irregular eating hours.

One way to relieve gas naturally is by exercise, a more structured solution is Yoga and a precise panacea are postures.

I can hear your mind voice, what?, postures?, what are these postures?

Well these postures are Asanas; Yoga Asanas, not just any yoga posture, they are twisting postures:

 

  1. Standing Posture: Revolved Chair Pose

I know this may be uncomfortable, but we are gonna start with the difficult pose and then go down the scale

Now stop rubbing your tummy

Come to the top of your mat, keep your feet together and your palms together in prayer position at the center of your chest, plant your feet firmly on the ground, inhale and as your exhale, bend your knees , push your hips back and imagine there is a low stool behind you and that you are on the way to sit on it, once your can’t sit any lower, inhale and as you exhale, abduct your arms to your right side and place your left elbow at the bottom of the right side of your right thigh and look upwards, try to stay there for 5 breaths.

Repeat this twisting posture on the left side

 

2. Sitting Posture:

This is a twisting posture, so try your best here.

Sit down on your mat with your legs stretched out straight, forward and  keep your feet together.

Keep your arms by your side and take 3 deep breaths

Now bend your right knee, rotate your right arm above your head and place your right palm, one palm distance behind your hip, then and raise your left arm, bind your bicep and land the left side of your left arm against the right side of your upper thigh, upper calf and knee, then turn your neck towards the right side and then turn your head further to gaze past your right shoulder towards the back of the room

Stay there for 5 breaths

Repeat this twisting posture using the left leg.

 

3. Lastly, the King of the Let Go!; the Pawan Muktasana, Pawan means Wind and Mukta means        Release

Yes, it’s a wind releasing pose and it’s a prone position pose, aha!, you can do this lying down.

So lets get to it, lie down on your mat, keep your legs straight and your arms vertically by the side of your body

Next, raise your legs up to 90 degrees and bend your knees, lower them to your chest and hug your knees close to your chest, raise your head and bring your forehead to touch your knees and stay there for 5 breaths.

Since this is The pose for wind release, let’s do this posture 1 more time.

After the Pawan Muktasana Pose, release your forehead from your knee and lay your head back on the mat, release your arms, release your legs and relax.

As you lie on your mat, feel how light and relaxed your abdominal region is and how you can breathe better, now before your re-evaluate  your food choices and scale down your consumption speed, just for a few more moments, lay there on the mat and soak in the feeling of divine release, just a suggestion here, you might want to hold your nose too!