How to do Paripurna Navasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Paripurna Navasana

Paripurna Navasana Although this asana is done on the floor, but actually it is a challenging balancing pose (the balance is on your buttocks).

• The complete posture looks like a boat, and since you are balancing like a boat balances in the water.

Also Know as: Full Boat Posture, Purna Nauka, Noka, Asan Nav Asana, Boat Pose

How to start this Asana

• Start from sitting in Dandasana.
• Take 2-3 deep breaths and start raising legs with knees bend and straight spine.
• Stretch and extend the arms horizontally.
• Raise the legs until knees start touching the hands.
• Stable yourself and straight the legs.
• Maintain this position till you feel confortable while breathing normally.
• Stop the practice if you feel abnormal pain in the lower back.

How to end this Asana

• Bend the legs so as to touch the floor with foots.
• Straight the legs and relax.

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Benefits of Paripurna Navasana

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

1. Increases the strength of abdomen, hip muscles & Spine.
2. Benefits for people having diseases related to kidneys, thyroid & intestines.
3. Relieve stress.
4. Increase digestion power.

Precaution to be taken before doing Paripurna Navasana

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

1. Asthma
2. Diarrhea
3. Headache
4. Heart Problems
5. Insomnia
6. Low blood pressure
7. Menstruation
8. Pregnancy

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