breathing and cobra pose

[Guest guest]

Last night when I was doing cobra pose with BoF, I felt pretty

awkward (ok, more so than usual) and think I may have been doing

something wrong. Towards the end of the 1 minute, I felt like I was

getting cramps in my lower abdomen, and it's not my moon cycle. When

I finished the asana, my lower abdomen still felt 'crampy-ish'. The

muscles weren't cramping anymore, but rather felt like I had been hit

a couple of times in the abdomen. Not sure that makes sense. They

felt better this morning, but still a little tender. I'm assuming I

was doing the breath wrong. I feel like a dunce with this one breath.

I thought I had it right for awhile. It's almost like I keep re-

learning or remembering how to do it. One of these days I'll get it.

 

On a positive note though, I began following Pieter's advice last

night and this morning. Not only did I do some pranayam before

starting yoga. But after holding the breath at the end of each asana,

I would exhale very slowly, like Pieter explained in his last breath

post. Previously, I would exhale as I normally do, not slowly. Boy

does that little thing make a big difference in the effects. The

effects of each asana felt amplified when I would exhale slowly at

the end. I was amazed.

 

Christa

[Guest guest]

Cobra stretches the abdominal muscles a lot; people usually don't realise it.

That's probably what you did and they went into spasms a bit.

 

Seva Simran

 

spatialagent1 wrote:

 

> Last night when I was doing cobra pose with BoF, I felt pretty

> awkward (ok, more so than usual) and think I may have been doing

> something wrong. Towards the end of the 1 minute, I felt like I was

> getting cramps in my lower abdomen, and it's not my moon cycle. When

> I finished the asana, my lower abdomen still felt 'crampy-ish'. The

> muscles weren't cramping anymore, but rather felt like I had been hit

> a couple of times in the abdomen. Not sure that makes sense. They

> felt better this morning, but still a little tender. I'm assuming I

> was doing the breath wrong. I feel like a dunce with this one breath.

> I thought I had it right for awhile. It's almost like I keep re-

> learning or remembering how to do it. One of these days I'll get it.

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Satnam dear one,

Like everyone else has pointed out the cobra stretches the abdominal muscles.

It also works on the navel center. If the navel point is "of ",which a lot of

people don't understand, you can have pains in this area. Your navel center

can be of by poor diet , falling, tripping ,carrying heavy bags ect. The book

called the Sadhana Guidelines has a lot of info on it if you think this might

be the problem.

good luck

s.i.r.khalsa