GOMUKH ASANA / COW HEAD POSE

One Asana that has the potential to help cervical, diabetic, blood pressure and obese patients is Gomukh Asana (Gomukh means head of a cow). This also promotes flexibility to the joints and checks the loss of prana from the body.

Duration 30 seconds to 1 minute

Procedure

• Sit with legs stretched straight.
• Fold the right leg at the base of left hip and left leg over the right thigh.
• Point both the feet sideways like the ears of cow.
• Keep the knees over each other like the jaws of cow.
• Make sure you sit on both the hips. Now stretch the right hand up overhead close to ear and fold it back.
• Take the left hand from down folding it at your back trying to catch hold of hand to hand.
• Look up over head and stay, breathing normally.
• Repeat the same on the other side to complete one cycle of this Asana.

Benefits

Body

• Strengthens & tones the muscles of the body especially thighs, buttocks, calves, arms, spine & shoulders.
• Massages the abdominal organs & tones up the reproductive organs.

Mind

• Induces mental peace by stimulating the blood circulation to the brain & activating the nervous system.

Pranic

• Checks the loss of prana.
• Relieves the blockage of prana from the pelvic & pectoral girdles i.e. shoulders & hips region.
• Energizes the solar plexus or Manipur chakra.
• Regulates the Samaan & Vyayan Vaayu.

Contraindications

• Frozen hip & shoulder.

Helps in

• Waste of semen, dyspepsia, indigestion, white discharge, lumbago, insomnia, cardiac trouble, asthma, dysentery, cervical & obesity.