How to do Dhruvasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Dhruvasana

dhruvasana In this asana stand straight with feet placed together. Bend the right knee and put the right foot on the left groin with the sole facing upward.

• Bring the hands near the chest and join the palms.

Also Know as: Tree Posture, Dhruwasana, Dhruva Asana, Dhruv Asan, Vrksasana, Vriksha Asana, Vriksh Asana, Vriks Pose

How to start this Asana

• While standing, bend the right knee shifting all the weight into the left leg.
• Put right side of the heel against the left leg.
• Look down at the floor and stare at one point.
• Slowly slide the right foot up the left leg, only as high up as you can maintain your balance.
• When you are balanced here, slowly bring the palms together, prayer position in front of the heart.
• Keep staring at your focal point on the floor.
• Keep the left leg strong pressing the foot into the floor.
• Keep the right knee bent 90 degrees towards the side wall.
• The shoulders are down and back and the chest is pressing forward.
• Breathe and hold for 4-8 breaths.

How to end this Asana

• Exhale, release your arms back down through Angli Mudra (Joining palms of the hands together) then release the right foot.
• Repeat on other side.

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Benefits of Dhruvasana

According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below^(YR/1)

1. Tree pose increases balance, focus, memory and concentration and strengthens the ankles and knees.

Precaution to be taken before doing Dhruvasana

As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below^(YR/2)

1. Recent or chronic knee or hip injury.
2. Those having complaint of reeling sensation should not practice it.

So, consult your doctor if you have any of the problem mentioned above.

Histroy and scientific base of Yoga

Due to the oral transmission of sacred writings and the secrecy of its teachings, yoga’s past is riddled with mystery and confusion. Early yoga literature were recorded on delicate palm leaves. So it was easily damaged, destroyed, or lost. Yoga’s origins may be dated back over 5,000 years. However other academics believe it could be as old as 10,000 years. Yoga’s lengthy and illustrious history may be split into four distinct periods of growth, practise, and invention.

• Pre Classical Yoga
• Classical Yoga
• Post Classical Yoga
• Modern Yoga

Yoga is a psychological science with philosophical overtones. Patanjali begins his Yoga method by instructing that the mind must be regulated – Yogahs-chitta-vritti-nirodhah. Patanjali does not delve into the intellectual underpinnings of the need to regulate one’s mind, which are found in Samkhya and Vedanta. Yoga, he continues, is the regulation of the mind, the constraint of the thought-stuff. Yoga is a science based on personal experience. The most essential advantage of yoga is that it helps us to maintain a healthy bodily and mental state.

Yoga can help to slow down the ageing process. Since aging starts mostly by autointoxication or self-poisoning. So, we can considerably limit the catabolic process of cell degeneration by keeping the body clean, flexible, and properly lubricated. Yogasanas, pranayama, and meditation must all be combined to reap the full advantages of yoga.

SUMMARY
Dhruvasana is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.