Bridge Pose Yogasana: Winter is going on and in this season, fluctuating cold temperatures often have a negative impact on health. Cases like cold and cough infections are found in the winter season. Due to this, a balance between diet and exercise should be maintained. Yogasana is one of the best exercises to be done in winter, which if done continuously provides health benefits. Today we are talking about Setubandhasana (Bridge Pose) yoga. This asana is the easiest and beneficial in yoga. While doing this, the shape of the body becomes like a bridge, hence its name Setubandhasana. This asana not only makes the body flexible, but is also very helpful in giving mental peace.
If you do Setubandhasana for a few minutes daily, you can get relief from many problems of the body. Apart from this, the special thing about doing this asana is that it does not require much effort, but its benefits are huge.
Step 1- To do Setubandhasana yoga, first of all lie down on your back and keep your hands beside you.
Step 2- Now slowly bend your legs from the knees and bring them near the hips.
Step 3- Raise the hips as high as possible from the floor.
Step 4- Hold the breath in this position for some time and then exhale and come back to the previous position.
If you do Setubandhasana regularly then your health gets benefits, let us discuss some such benefits.
1- Doing Setubandhasana provides mental benefits. In this hectic pace of life, people are unable to find moments of happiness and fall prey to the problems of stress and depression. By doing Setubandhasana, one of the yoga asanas here, the mind calms down and the nervous system gets relaxed. In this asana, the chest and lungs expand, due to which more oxygen reaches the body and less stress is felt. Apart from this, if you do this asana for some time every day, your mental health improves.
2-Doing Setubandhasana regularly benefits physical health. This yoga asana strengthens the muscles of the legs. During the time you hold the asana, the muscles of the thighs, calves and hips get stretched well, which gives them strength and flexibility. Apart from this, this asana also activates the abdominal organ. Because of this, many minor problems to stomach start going away.
3- Doing Setubandhasana provides relief from problems like digestion and constipation. By doing Setubandhasana here, it activates the nerves around the stomach. Digestion improves by doing this asana. People who often suffer from constipation can get a lot of benefit from this asana. This asana massages the abdominal organs and helps in reducing problems like gas, acidity.
If you are going to do this asana for the first time, then do it only under the advice and supervision of an expert.
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