BhooNaman Asana Yoga Mudra
Duration 10 seconds to 1 minute
Procedure 
Benefits
- Sit cross legged as you do in Sukhasan/ Vajrasana.
- Back straight.
- Join the hands in Namaskaar at your back side with palms together facing up, thumb crossed or hold the elbows to each other or keep your hands by the sides of the body.
- Take a deep breath in & breathe out gently bend down with straight back.
- Keep on coming down bending from the lower back trying to touch your chin to the floor.
- Push your shoulders back slowly come up after sometime.
- Release your hands and lift your head straight.
Body/Mind/Pranic
- Increase the blood supply to head, mental nerve & sensory organs.
- Relieves mental sluggishness.
- Stretches the whole spine makes it supple & elastic.
- Checks the loss of prana from reproductive organs.
- Eliminates the weakness of intestines & stomach.
- Stimulates gastric fire.
Contraindications
- Cervical, pregnancy.
Variations
- Perform in Vajrasana, Padmasan or sitting on chair touch head to knees.
Helps in
- Constipation, hyperactivity of liver & pancreas, diabetes, cold, gas trouble, loss of appetite, white discharge (leucorrhea), insomnia, asthma, dysentery & indigestion.
Key Points
- Obese people can rest the head on a cushion in case it does not touch the floor.
- Do not put much weight on the head.
- Try to bend down from lower back so that there is no rounding of the back.