How to do Tiriyaka Dandasana, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Tiriyaka Dandasana

Tiriyaka Dandasana While sitting in dandasana you have to twist your waist backward with your hands, this is called tiriyaka-dandasana.

Also Know as: Twisted Staff Pose, Tiriyaka Dundasana, Tiryaka Dunda Asana, Tiriyak Dund Posture, Tiryak dand Asan,

How to start this Asana

• Start from sitting in Dandasana .
• Let your left arm move towards your left back.
• Now twist your torso backwards with your right arm in the same side.
• Keep your legs straight.
• To release, come back to the first position and relax.

How to end this Asana

• To release, come back to the first position and relax.

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Benefits of Tiriyaka Dandasana

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

1. It stretches the spine and makes it flexible.
2. It also stretches the shoulders and the arms and makes them strong.

Precaution to be taken before doing Tiriyaka Dandasana

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

1. The persons who have any injury of back should not try to do this asana.
2. But after recovering from the injury you can do this asana by consulting your doctor.

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