Saturday, February 26, 2011

Yesterday's answer, today's question

ANSWER: Because by evening the body is switching off. Sending so much blood to the brain will stimulate it, keeping you awake. Plus inversions push things back into the body: u don't want to do that when the body has begun its process of pushing things out, by night fall, preparing itself for evacuation.

QUERY:
Why Mayurasana (peacock pose)  must not be done before an inversion?
Think a bit about the pose, the pressure applied, and connect a bit with the answer above... Yoga is a well-crafted science.. Unfortunately, it is not being taught in a structured fashion (except by the Sivananda school) with the sequences in place. Though other schools (Iyengar, Bihar School) discuss this in theory, I am not sure in a classroom a sequence is followed with such nuanced detailing... so u want to know these things to maximise the benefits. And maybe instructors stop being such blah types:)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

iyengar school gives importance to technical perfection only. No sequence is followed like sivananda.

Anila said...

mayurasana is a purifying pose,increase blood circulation and hence releases toxins- If you follow it up with an inversion, you send all the toxins right back again..