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How To Avoid Common Mistakes While Performing The Camel Pose (Ustrasana) ?

The Camel pose (Ustrasana) is an amazing heart-opening or thoracic spine mobility posture. When beginners perform this posture, they may make certain mistakes without being aware, which can lead to serious injuries.

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✅️ Alignment - there is a well-known saying, a heavy weight can be lifted easily if your alignment is correct. The same rule applies to the Camel pose/Ustrasana.

In this pose, the alignment of the legs and hands plays a crucial role in supporting you to perform the posture with ease. If their placement is incorrect, you may suffer a serious injury.

Stand on your knees with feet wide apart parallel to the hips, and keep your feet parallel to the mat. Which helps you to do a deep backbend.

✅️ Hurry to perform it – Camel pose is a challenging pose so take your time to perform the posture step-by-step such as: Hands up, put them on your waist, push your pelvis, lean backward, put the hands on your heels one after another.

Don’t just think you have done the alignment, so you can hop into the posture the right way.

✅️ Not aware of breathing – Proper breathing enhances the benefits you receive from a specific posture, like the Camel pose.

Some beginners, while holding the pose, take a deep breath to create a vacuum in the belly or hold their breath, resulting in a red face and shaking their body.

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A Beginner tip for Camel pose (Ustrasana).

Camel pose is an intermediate backbending posture and requires overall body flexibility and confidence to attempt this pose.

If you are a beginner, you can follow this tip to perform this posture effectively.

➡️Yoga blocks - using yoga blocks with this pose helps you to enhance your shoulders and lower back flexibility, so you can easily hold your feet.

✅Put your knees on the mat with legs apart. Make your feet flat with the mat.

✅Place the yoga blocks vertically next your ankles.

✅Inhale, rise your arms above the head, and push your pelvis area forward to lean your body backward.

✅Exhale, place your hands on the blocks one after another, and rotated your palms inward fingers pointed towards the hips.

✅Inhale, push you chest up toward the ceiling to let your ribcage expand and stretch the shoulders properly.

✅Exhale, slowly push your hips toward the knees to spread the load on your lower back and give your body a shape like a Camel hump.

✅️ keep your neck parallel with the shoulders and look at ceiling.

✅Hold there for 5 breaths,then slowly release it and do a child pose.

If you apply this tip while you perform this posture, you can measure the improvement daily and you will have confidence to perform it without blocks

The Chakrasana can be harmful for the spine.
What do you need to do to avoid the harmfulness?

Well, it is not my words, some experts say that Chakrasana or wheel pose can harm your spine, but I strongly believe that if you do enough exercises before performing the posture, your spine can be safe from injury.

Chakrasana or Wheel pose is an intermediate or advanced yoga posture. A yogi always performs it at the end of the session. As a beginner, you can follow the step-by-step guides and do it at home.

*Exercises - Full body exercises are important to reduce the risk of injury as well as prepare your body for this yoga posture such as neck, hands, lower back movements.

*Movements - Now, You need to do some flexibility movements to loosen your lower back and shoulders. You can do Upward facing dog and Downward facing dog movement, Cat and Cow pose movement, and Ustrasana (also called Camel pose) movement.

*Alignment of the posture - During you perform the Chakrasana, you need to make sure your hands are parallel with your ears, and your legs are aligned with your hips to reduce the effect of lifting up the body, holding it for longer.

*Counter poses - There is a lot of tension and pain after you perform the Chakrasana, so you should do counter poses or front bending poses to balance the muscles pain and to reduce risk of injury. Some of these are Pawanmuktasana, Sasangasana/ Rabbit pose, Half Bridge pose/ Setu Bandhasana.

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मनःप्रशमनोपायो योग इत्यभिधीयते॥

The recourse to pacify the mind is called yoga.