Garudasan Eagle Pose yoga asanas, How to Perform Eagle Pose, benefits of Eagle Pose

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Garudasan  (Eagle pose)
Garudasan is a standing balancing pose that requires your hands and legs. Garudasan is a Sanskrit word that has a very beautiful meaning in English. The term Garud means eagle
Asana means pose.
Hence, Garudasan is an eagle pose. Eagle is considered as the messenger of God. So, people considered the Garudasan pose as a god pose. It stretches your upper body, legs. Back, abdomen, shoulder, and calves.
Garudasan is a very beneficial pose. It strengthens your quadriceps, calves, and lower back muscles. It is very important to have a good body balance before practicing this pose. Your body must be steady.
Garudasan has various hidden benefits. It improves concentration, flexibility, strengthens and loosens joints. This pose will activate the Muladhara chakra. Muladhara chakra is the foundation of the physical structure and the energy body. Activating Muladhara chakra will enhance your sexual desires and improve your sexual health. This pose could be a great help in reducing anxiety and stress. Practicing Garudasan will help you in curing problems of sciatica. Sciatica is a condition of severe pain that radiates from the back into the hips and outer side of the leg caused by compression of sciatic nerves.
It is recommended to practice Garudasan daily for at least 15 seconds. The best time for practicing Garudasan is the morning after evacuation. The pose can cure stiffness and improve flexibility. It lengthens and strengthens your spine. Practicing this pose will give a good stretch to your body.
Benefits:

• Improves flexibility: This pose will help you to improve the flexibility of the hips, back, and legs. Practicing Garudasan will help you in improving flexibility in your back muscles.
• Reduce stress and anxiety: Garudasan pose will enhance the blood flow in our body. It squeezes the unhealthy blood out of your body and increases the flow of fresh blood. This will help us to improve our mood and reduce stress and anxiety.
• Helps in sciatica: Practicing Garudasan regularly will stretch your lower back. The stretch in the lower back may be beneficial in reducing pain caused because of sciatica. It will help us to overcome muscles stiffness due to which the sciatica nerve causes pain.
• Activates Muladhara chakra: This pose will help you in activating your Muladhara chakra. It is located between the perineum and the pelvic bone. The regular practice will do a physical touch in that area which will activate the Muladhara chakra.
• Strengthen ankles and increase flexibility: This pose will help in strengthening your ankles. When we practice this pose we lay the weight of our body on our ankle. Doing this will strengthen our ankle and also increase flexibility.
• Shoulder joints: This pose enhances the flexibility in your shoulder joints. Practicing this pose will strengthen ossification. Ossification is the formation of bone tissue. It strengthens and loosens the joints in the arms, shoulder, and legs.
• Improve concentration: This pose will help you in improving concentration. Practicing this pose will increase blood flow in your body. The increased blood flow hence refreshes our mind and improves concentration.
• Strengthen calf muscles: When we perform the pose, we lay a little stress on our calf muscles. The stress hence will result in strengthening the calf muscles.
• Improve balance: This pose will help you to improve balance in your body. To practice Garudasan you need to have a good balance in your body. This pose hence will help you to improve your balance and make your body steady.
• Improve digestive system: during the practice of Garudasan, individuals lay stress on the digestive system. It gives a good massage to your digestive system and strengthens it.
• Relief from tension: this pose will help you in releasing tension. We often feel stiffness or spasm or tension in our shoulder, back, and hips. This pose can relieve all the tension from our shoulders, back, and hips.
• Beneficial for the male reproductive system: This pose will strengthen the male reproductive system. It will activate the Muladhara chakra which enhances the reproductive system and sexual capacity in males.
•   This pose will strengthen your kidney. This pose could be a great help in improving the overall health of the Kidney.

• Consult your doctor in case of knee surgery. You must not practice the pose if you ever had a knee injury as you may face some serious consequences.
• Do not practice the pose in pregnancy. This pose will increase the blood flow and help to remove blood clots in your body. This might cause serious consequences.
• Avoid practicing the pose in case of a knee injury. This may worsen the situation.
• Do not practice this pose if you have recently recovered from surgery. You must not continue any of the yoga poses before consulting your doctor if you have just recovered from surgery. You need a good amount of time for your post-surgery recovery.
• If you have a wrist, back, elbow injury then does not try this pose. It will worsen the condition. Take a rest and consult your doctor or yoga instructor if you still wish to practice the pose.
• Avoid practicing the pose if an individual is suffering from vertigo. Vertigo is a spinning experience when everything is still.
• Avoid the practice of this pose if you are suffering from arthritis.
• Do not forcefully hook your leg and hands in this pose. This may lead to a serious injury.
• Avoid practicing in case of ankle and shoulder injury.
• Do not practice the pose in case of frequent headaches, high or low blood pressure, obesity, and asthma.
• Focus on your body posture. Do not overdo the pose. Do not force yourself. Inhale and exhale naturally to avoid any injury.

• Support yourself against a wall to avoid injury. If you feel this pose is too tough for you and you can’t balance yourself throughout the pose, then support against a wall.
• You can use a chair to get slight support.
• If you can’t touch your elbow to the knees, then avoid touching and skip this step.
• If it is too difficult for you to maintain balance then just try practicing the hand posture first, you can also try to practice the legs posture first before performing the whole pose.
• You can interchange the steps. You can first twist your hands and then focus on your legs.