Vajra-asana (The Thunderbolt or Diamond Pose)

Vajra-asana
The Thunderbolt or Diamond Pose


Instruction:

1. The vajra-asana is a seated posture. Begin by sitting back on your heels and placing your knees, legs and feet together.

2. Keeping the back straight place the palms of your hands down on top of your thights.


3. Breath gently thorugh your nostrils and sit in this position for at least three minutes.

Comments:

The vajra-asana is a versatile posture well suited for meditation, rest in between other seated postures, or as an aid to digestion.

The vajra-asana is the first stop in various other yoga postures such as the anjaneya-asana (salutation posture) and the ushtra-asana (the camel).


Durations/Repetitions:

The vajra-asana can be held for as long as is comfortable(and depending on the reason for doing the posture).

Do ensure these before doing yoga

Any persons having any
problems to their lungs or
for breathing should not do
any yoga 'asanas' which are
on this blog unless
consulting an expert.
Before starting yoga you
should do some small small
exercises in order to loose
your body muscles. Some
simple exercises like
rotating: arms,fore arms,
shoulders,legs,hips,neck.
bending either sides,
jumping can be done.
While doing yoga don't do
any 'asana' with any stress
or stain, if you can't bend
much bend untill you can
through continues
practicing of yoga you can
achive it.

Yoga & Cricket

You may wonder in what all
ways yoga can improve your
cricketing skills. The main
strength of an cricketer lies
in the mind power. The
batting,bowling and even
the fielding is directly
linked to the mind power.
The master blaster (sachin),
the jumbo (kumble) and
the king of spin (warne) are
the best example for the
cricketers who used their
mind power for victory.
When ever we hear about
yoga like reflex action the
thing which will come to
our mind is about our mind
it self. Yoga will not only
help us to improve our
mind power but also it help
us to improve our
cricketing skills. The main
output of yoga is that all of
your hormons get
activated, which will give
you a huge energy to be
active in any thing and you
will be much more
confident than before.
Second main output of
yogo is that your body will
become more flexible,
which is most important for
any sportsmen and the
most important outcome is
that you can improve your
visualisation power. If you
have a great visualisation
power you can achive any
thing that's why A.P.J Abdul
Kalam has said to the
children " Dream, Dream,
Dream . . . . . "
In the upcoming blogs i will
be posting some
interesting 'asanas' of yoga
to improve the cricketing
skills.