Standing Forward Bend Pose in Yoga

• Focus: Hamstrings, back
• Level: Beginning
• Total Time: 60 seconds
• Indications: Mild depression, stress, insomnia, headaches; stimulates kidneys, liver, digestive system
• Contraindications: Back injuries, pregnancy (careful modifications are possible)

To perform the forward fold:

• Stand with your feet firmly planted, spread slightly apart for balance. Distribute your weight evenly across your feet, and hold your torso tall and open. Inhale.
• Breathe out and bend your body forward at the hips, not the waist. Bend only as far as you can while still breathing easily.
• Press your heels into the ground, keeping your hips over the soles of your feet.
• If your hamstrings are too tight to straighten your legs completely, keep your knees bent. If you can straighten your legs completely, place your fingers on the ground.
• Let your head and neck hang freely.
• Breathe in and add more length to your torso, then breathe out to settle more deeply into the pose.

If you were to stop here, you would slowly raise your torso, stacking one vertebra at a time atop the others, until you have returned to an upright position. However, for this warm up you want to transition into the half- standing forward fold. This will extend your spine and further strengthen your back and knees.

Warming Up For Yoga

• Everybody knows the importance of stretching before running or working out, but what kind of warm-up does yoga require? While traditional stretching is helpful before performing yoga, since most yoga poses are advanced stretches in and of themselves, there are a number of yoga positions you can use to warm up before you delve into the more involved practice.
• The unique aspect of warming up for yoga is the process of centering oneself, at the same time you wake up your muscles. A yoga physical warm-up is also a mental warm-up that allows you to move away from your other preoccupations and reach a calm mental stance that will assist you in further yoga work.
• An ideal yoga warm-up will include poses that involve both your upper and lower body. It should incorporate stretches that attend to your wrists, your neck, and your spine, key parts of your body that receive the most work when you’re doing yoga. In this chapter, you will discover some great poses you can use as part of your personal warm-up routine.

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1. Which is the Sanskrit root (verb form) for the etymological derivation of the word “Yoga”?
(A) Yug
(B) Yuge
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III. Bahyabhyantara Vishayakshepi Pranayana
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Assertion (A): Pashchimōttanasana is contraindicated in sciatica.
Reason (R): Pashchimōttanasana is a type of forward bending asana.
All types of forward bending asanas should be contraindicated in sciatica. In the context of above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
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(B) June 21
(C) June 22
(D) June 23
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