The cobra style can open the chest and help strengthen the heart. This posture is the same as the posture when the snake stands up, hence the name. When this action pushes the chest forward, it can fully open the chest cavity to relieve chest tightness and unsatisfactory breathing, and help reduce stress and anxiety, and become more calm.
This asana is one of the classic yoga asanas. It is practiced almost every time you practice. It was originally a good posture for the lumbar spine, which can relieve waist pain by , Treatment of lumbar disc herniation . However, there are often feedback from students, why after I finished training, my waist became more painful . Is this pose the same as its name "有毒"?
How to do a cobra style without hurting the lumbar spine, but also good for the waist? Listen to what the ocean teacher said.
1. First of all, let’s look at the main points of practicing this asana correctly:
2. Is what causes pain ?
1. For beginners and stiff people, many people have a stiff lower back. When doing the eye snake stretch, the hips, legs, waist and back are very tight. Lower back Can't stretch, chest and abdomen are not stretched. Just simply propped up the upper body with both arms. This is actually just to fold our waist, so that the pressure of will be concentrated on the waist and lumbar spine , which will not only fail to stretch, but will also damage our waist, resulting in waist tension and pressure on the lumbar spine. Increase, thus causes waist pain .
2. For people with good body flexibility, when the practitioners do the snake stretch pose, they do not target the body do stretching , but to strengthen the back bend too much. The asana made a backward bend. Just ask for the amplitude of the bending movement of the body. But it failed to meet the extension required by the eye snake style. Therefore, such exertion and practice are also wrong. It can also cause waist pain and back tension.
3. How to practice the cobra pose?
The correct exercise is in the cobra stretching exercises, every part of the body must have a feeling of stretching. The legs are fully stretched backwards, and the waist and abdomen are pushing forward. The strength of the waist and abdomen and the strength of the legs form a confrontation. Keep the chest and rib cage lifted forward, pushing the waist and abdomen to lift the chest cavity consciously. Create space for the waist and abdomen. To create a kind of tension, to create a fully stretched space, the position of the chest and abdomen will be stretched more fully, so as to reduce the pressure on the waist. Relieve the pain in the waist, truly achieve the requirements of the snake stretch style.
Many people make this pose wrong. Mainly ignore the basic principles of asanas. Change a stretching action into a bending and squeezing action .
The ocean teacher also introduced some tips to help practice:
Method 1. When getting up, Do not directly prop up the body with both hands , but 头推动胸先举起, focus on the thoracic spine (chest, back), the waist is basically unstressed. Then use your hands to help your body continue to lift to your limit, bend your elbows (the thoracic spine drives the lumbar spine to bend, and the shoulders relax and sink). In short, you need to use the thoracic spine and not just the lumbar spine.
Method 2. If you use the above steps When the lumbar spine still feels sore, separate your legs slightly until the lumbar cone pressure decreases.
Method 3. IfFor those who have lumbar spine problems or do not exercise for a long time, it is recommended to lie on their stomachs and then prop up on the ground with both elbows and support the cheek with both hands instead.
In addition, there are two warm tips:
1, Lumbar disease, it is best to practice this posture carefully.
2. After doing the eye snake pose, use baby style or big worship style to relax the body . Recurve the spine.
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