What is Headstand?

The headstand has also known as “Sirsasana” and “King of all the asanas”. A headstand is a pose that is an inversion posture of standing head down.

This Yoga asana awakens your spiritual awakening deep down in the sense of your brain.

Here are the 11 benefits of Headstand –

1 – Strengths your Shoulders and Arms –

Headstand is an amazing posture to increase the strength of your arms. When you’re in a headstand, you should be pushing the edges of your hands, wrists, and forearms into the ground. This means you will be using the strength of your arms and shoulders to hold you up, instead of putting pressure on your neck and spine.

2 – Improves Blood Circulation –

Regular practice of Headstands makes pure blood flow through our brain cells and it makes our brain much more active.

3 – Prevents hair fall –

Hair loss, greying of hair and baldness is frequently caused because of bad blood circulation in the scalp. Headstand doesn’t only direct enriched blood to the brain(Cerebrum), also it also sends it to the scalp. The changing of grey hair into its original colour and great development of hair is conceivable through the act of this headstand yoga pose.

4 – Increases Mental Health –

Headstand Asana sparks the nervous system and increases mental alertness and clarity.

5 – Improves eye vision –

Headstand improves the overall functions of our eyesight, sense of smell and taste. The extra supply of blood during Headstand helps to work the sensory organs properly. A general bad hearing has been found to improve by regular practice of Headstand.

6 – Strengths Your Core Part –

In order to hold a straight headstand, a practitioner must engage the abdominal muscles — including the obliques, the rectus abdomen, and the transverse abdominus. The center is reinforced especially if the expert lifts or brings the two legs without a moment’s delay down to come into and out of the headstand.

7 – Healthy Sleep –

Headstand can help those people who are suffering from the loss of sleep, memory by the regular practice of this asana.

8 -Stress Reliever –

Headstands also reduce the production of cortisol, the stress hormone, and increases blood flow to the brain, stimulating the production of melatonin, dopamine and serotonin, all hormones that help regulate mood.

9 -Improves Digestion –

When the body is upside down, the pituitary organ, which plays a role in healthy digestion, is stimulated. Headstands are recommended for irritable bowel disorder and other digestive sicknesses, as they reorient the colon and digestion tracts, encouraging a bowel movement.

10 – Treat sexual disorders – 

Headstand helps in oppose of sexual disorders such as prostate problems hydrocele, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea, and menstrual ailments. This yoga asana drains blood from the associated sexual endocrine glands and organs, thus improving the functional efficiency of the part.

11 – Relieves cold & cough –

By practising this Yoga Pose our lungs gain the power to resist any climate and stand up to any work, thus helpful in relieving colds, coughs, and tonsillitis.

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