Advanced Yoga Technique for Total Body Workout
Advanced Yoga Technique – Chakra Asana
Advanced Kundalini Yoga Exercise – Wheel Pose
Wheel pose is a fairly advanced yoga technique that should only be tried after perfecting some of the preliminary postures for building the flexibility of the spine. It is not recommended you do this posture if you find it strenuous on your wrists, elbows, shoulders, spine or knees. So in other words, this is a great yoga technique, but don’t do it till you are good and ready.
Wheel Pose or Chakra Asana is common to both hatha yoga and kundalini yoga, so you will find it as part of both the following e-books on Mastery of Meditation: Free Illustrated Hatha Yoga Postures and Free Illustrated Kundalini Yoga Exercises E-Book.
This advanced yoga technique though, if you can do it, is very good for toning your entire body and is beneficial to multiple internal systems simultaneously. More details on the benefits of this pose can be found in the practice section below the illustration.
Advanced Yoga Technique for Total Body Workout
Picture of Hatha Yoga Wheel Pose
Hatha Yoga Wheel Pose Practice Details:
a. Step-by-Step Instructions for Hatha Yoga Wheel Technique:
- Lie on your back and bring your feet very close to your buttocks.
- Place your hands near your shoulders, with your fingers facing in.
- Raise yourself up, so you are resting on the crown of your head.
- From here, press upwards, such that you come into the position as illustrated by the picture above. You should try to get a good arch in your back by pressing up with your hips and let your head hang down between your arms.
b. Duration for Hatha Yoga Wheel Technique:
- 15 seconds – 3 minutes.
c. Benefits of Hatha Yoga Wheel Technique:
- Excellent yoga technique to tone your respiratory system, digestive system, reproductive system and your nervous system. Great for a total body workout.
- This yoga pose also builds arm strength and leg strength.
- It promotes flexibility in the spine and shoulders.
d. Practice Tips for Hatha Yoga Wheel Technique:
- Practice partial wheel pose, with your head resting on the ground first, and then move into the full posture when you feel ready.
- Do other simpler backward bending exercises first, to build up the flexibility of your spine, before attempting Chakra Asana.
- Make sure you are properly warmed up before doing this advanced pose to help prevent injury.
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December 4th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Ingiltere,
Yes – it is okay to do this pose 2 times a day.
Trupti
November 28th, 2010 at 6:30 am
it great pose, can i do it 2 times a day?
March 4th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
[...] Class today focused on standing and balancing poses and I was finding some alignment. Chuck was doing some advanced pigeon variations and I followed his example. Feeling open I found myself able to push myself into the upward bowed shape of a wheel pose and catching my reflection in the mirror saw that I emitted crackling sparks of tiny pinpoint light from each one of my vertebrae that spun in support until I could no longer hold my body. Pretty magical. I’m going to shoot for rainbows now that I got the spark I just need to learn how to bend the light. [...]
October 26th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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February 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am
[...] Hatha Yoga Wheel Pose: Try to hold this pose for as long as 3 minutes to get the full benefits. [...]
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
[...] Kundalini Yoga’s Modified Wheel Pose is certainly an exercise worth including as part of your daily yoga routine. It is an integral part of mine. This exercise is called Kandhar Asana in Hatha Yoga and also goes by a few other names in various yoga circles. Since it is often used as a modification to Wheel Pose (see Advanced Yoga Technique for Total Body Workout), and offers many of that position’s benefits without the same degree of difficulty, I find the name Modified Wheel Pose most suitable for it. [...]
November 26th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
[...] Hatha Yoga Wheel Pose: Try to hold this pose for as long as 3 minutes to get the full benefits. [...]
March 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
[...] Bow pose or Dhanur Asana is perhaps the face of yoga. It is another one of those yoga poses that is worth incorporating into your daily practice. It is not as difficult as Wheel Pose, which is detailed in the article, Advanced Yoga Technique – Wheel Pose, but it provides many of the same benefits and a few more when done the special Kundalini Yoga way. [...]
February 29th, 2008 at 2:51 am
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