Padasanchalanasan
(Cycling)
- Lie down on your back.
- Straighten your arms and place your arms by the side of the body and palms facing the floor.
- Slowly bend the knees, raise your legs in the air and begin to cycle.
- Inhale (Radhey) when one knee is close to your chest and exhale (Shyam) when the next knee comes closer to the chest.
- Repeat 10-20 times clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Awareness
Synchronization of the movement with the breath and the pressure in the abdomen, hip, thighs and lower back.
Benefits
Particularly, this dynamic pose, makes the abdominal and back muscles strong. It also helps reduce obesity, removes constipation, acidity and increases the ‘the digestive fire’ in the stomach.
