Shavasan
(Corpse Pose)
Shavasana is a simple yogic breathing exercise. The yogic breath is a complete breath done with full awareness. The abdomen, the chest, and the neck (clavicular region) expand during a relaxed deep breath. As one relaxes more, the abdominal breathing is more prominent. We may have the habit of breathing from the chest and neck region when we are tense. You may observe that when we are relaxed, abdominal breathing takes over. You can observe the breathing pattern in children. They always breathe from their stomach. But we adults often breathe with our chest and neck. The reason behind this is stress. An individual should practice this exercise to get rid of stress, anxiety, and fear. The correct breathing technique is to breathe from our stomach. Our breathing pattern plays an important role in our health. so it is very important to follow a healthy lifestyle.
Shavasan is such a pose that will be very helpful in practicing the yogic posture. The term Shavasana is a Sanskrit word where,Shav means corpse, Asana means body.
Hence, the pose Shavasana is called corpse pose in English. The name was derived from its posture. During this posture, the practitioner poses like a dead body.
This pose can be practiced by anyone. An individual who is new to yoga can also practice these poses. This pose though is very easy but has lots of benefits. This pose has many hidden benefits. It helps in reducing the stomach fire that causes acidity and other such problems. Practicing the pose will help you to relax your body. It is a great pose that can be practiced for reducing blood pressure and enhancing concentration. This pose boosts energy levels and soothes the nervous system.
Benefits:

• Relaxes your body:  This pose will help you to relax your body. It will enhance energy in your body and calm down your nerves. It rejuvenates your body by bringing sufficient oxygen to the muscles and releases any trapped tensions.
• Soothes the nervous system: This pose enhances the oxygen level in your body and hence soothes the nervous system. It keeps our spine straight and massages our internal organs. Hence, this pose will improve the overall health of our nervous system.
• Reduces blood pressure: Along with relaxing our body, it will manage the blood pressure. When our body and mind are relaxed our blood pressure remains balanced. Hence, this pose will balance the blood pressure.
• Enhance concentration: this pose will help an individual in enhancing concentration. This pose is a type of deep meditation. It enables the practitioner to focus on every part of our body and thus focusing on your mind helps in improving concentration and boosting memory.
• Boost energy level: This pose is used to regain energy instantly if you are tired or stressed. It improves blood circulation and refreshes us.
• Reduces anxiety: Practicing this pose will help an individual in reducing anxiety. It relaxes our mind and the deep meditative position helps in reducing the anxiety.
• Manage anger: managing anger is quite a task nowadays. But it is the need of the hour. Practicing Shavasan can be very helpful in managing your anger.  
• Cure insomnia: Insomnia is a condition of an individual’s body where they couldn’t sleep at night or keep on awakening in the nighttime. It can be for a week or months or years. Practicing this pose will cure insomnia.
• Relaxes your muscles: This pose will help an individual in relaxing the muscles. This pose will cool down your whole body and enhance freshness. This results in relaxing the muscles.
• Practicing this pose could result in curing various other diseases. This pose will cure neurological problems, asthma, constipation, diabetes, and indigestion.
• Relieve headache: This pose will help us in relieving headaches. It will enhance the oxygen in our brain and relieves headache.
• Gastric pain and bloating: Practicing this pose will help you in reducing the excessive gases from your stomach. The breathing exercise from our stomach will help us in releasing the excessive gas and thus cure bloating and other such problems.

Technique:
Step 1: Lay on your back. To practice this Pose you must lay down on the floor with your back straight. your back must touch the floor. Your spine should be straight enough and there must not be any space between the floor and your spine.
Step 2: Stretch your legs, slightly apart from each other. Keep your legs straight and adjust your spine buttocks and legs in a straight line.
Step 3: Your hands should be horizontally straight. and the head should be linear to the body. Do to stretch any part of your body too much. Take a deep breath and relax.
Step 4: Release all the tension and stress from your body and feel relaxed and light.
Step 5: Inhale and exhale with your stomach. Do not force your breathing. Naturally, inhale and exhale from your stomach. Focus on your subconscious mind and try to distress yourself.
Step 6: Stay in the position for at least 5 minutes to 15 minutes.  
Step 7: you can repeat the process if needed.
Precautions:

• Do not force your breathing. This is purely a breathing exercise but forcing your breathing can cause trouble.
• Do not practice this pose if you are suffering from a back injury.
• Consult your doctor before practicing this posture if you recently had recovered from surgery.
• Consult your doctor before practicing this posture if you are suffering from back, neck, shoulder, buttocks, and legs pain. This pose might worsen the condition.  
• Do not practice this posture if you are suffering from respiratory problems.

Props and modifications:

• Place a pillow under your neck if you are not comfortable in the pose. This will support your neck and reduce the chances of injury.
• Use a blanket underneath your neck, spine, back, buttocks, and legs. If you are not comfortable in the pose. This will prevent injury.
• You can also use a wall or chair to support your body posture to decrease the chances of injury.