
November 28, 2019
Sun-salutation, known as Surya-namaskaar in Sanskrit, is a sequential yoga that warms, strengthens and aligns our entire body. Sun-salutation is known as a classic exercise since ages. You can warm up so easily with sun-salutation. You can repeat 3 to 4 times and then you can increase to 10 to 11 times. Sun-salutation is more stimulating and a very calming experience.
Before you begin sun-salutation
Before you do sun-salutation, you should warm up your body with Tadasana (Mountain like posture). While you are warming up, you should focus on your inner sun that is situated in your heart, which is the skeuomorph of the outer sun. Our inner sun represents the light of self-consciousness, without which nothing can exist, just as our body cannot exist without our heart.
Steps to perform a perfect sun-salutation
- Tadasana (Mountain like posture)
- Urdhv-hastasana (Upward salute)
- Uttanasana (Standing bend forward)
- Ardh-uttasana (Half standing and bend forward)
- High lunge
- Adho mukha savasana (Facing downward like a dog pose)
- Plank pose
- Chaturanga dandasana (Four-limbed staffing pose)
- Urdhv mukha savasana (Facing upward dog pose)
- Finish postures