Additional description Pashchimottanasany

Pashchimottanasana can be translated as "stretching the buttocks." Purpose poses - take shape at the waist like a sheet of paper, while the body is placed on straight legs. Canonical form can be seen in sesion Yoga Deepika (4, № 160). 

In the finished version Pashchimottanasany spin is more or less flat arc. A person who falls on his feet to his knees, while the angle of the waist with a floor of not more than forty-five degrees, than it is sharper - the more perfect pose. However, individual configuration Pashchimottanasany depends solely on the structure and shape of the chest, with its barrel-shaped angle of the surface of the waist to the floor increases, with flattening - decreases. 

In the illustrations of substandard materials knees in Pashimottanasane slouching in part, why his legs get kind of kind of an elongated diamond-shaped, strongly departing from the floor in the popliteal region. Of course, this position is wrong. 
A feet in Pashimottanasane must be: 

a), tightly knitted together; 

b), do not pull the sock, as do gymnasts, thus reducing stretching back surface, the fingers have to apply for themselves, but the heel forward to the soles of the feet were more or less perpendicular to the floor, while the rear surface of the hip maximally adjacent to it. 

in), soles of the feet form a single plane, and not turn to each other, like the palms of hands folded. Conversely, when competent performance poses inside edges of feet a little as if "pushed" forward, and the outer slant off slightly back and out. 

When inflexible man sits on the floor with his body perpendicular to the floor, his legs had been stretched. The work begins with the fact that you are sitting upright, let go of them inside, especially the thigh muscles, while relaxing your mind. Feet should remain on the floor in the "unfasten" state, as it were autonomous from the body. And if relaxation is born, the body itself will begin to flow forward and down. If Pashchimottanasanu done correctly, the legs lie on the floor, straight as a stick, they just do not "want" to bend at the knees. The feeling that the bones literally run into the hips, and back stretches. In the third approach, the body is placed on his feet, and feeling well and did not arise at the final form of even more convenient than to enter it. 

Head position. Texts require that all positions not related with special bending of the spine, it is stored directly as possible. Therefore any stage Pashimottanasany do not have to hang my head. 

Back. If it is too much sgorblena, then, according to Tantra, the practitioner receives a "puncture" in the Manipura chakra and loses energy. 

Eyes. They should be possible to close (in all asanas, where possible), however, someone relaxation, including mental, is given it is easier with eyes open, it's idiosyncrasies. Perhaps a third, intermediate position of the eyes - half-closed. 

If the initial level of flexibility does not allow to get his hands feet, you need to move through them, strap, scarf - anything that you can, holding him to sit freely. If the body is an obtuse angle with the feet, then attempts Pashchimottanasany inappropriate, it should be replaced Uttanasanoy (№ 47, "Deepika ...»). To move away from feelings, we can not draw hands to the floor, and say - in a pile of books. 

Therapeutic Effects Pashchimottanasany amenable to pathological lumbar lordosis, in conjunction with the twisting and deflection ago this posture eliminates lumbagos, radiculitis, helps to prevent miscarriages in women (a function of the reproductive sphere depend on the state of the lumbar spine). 

Contraindications: overweight, fat layer of the abdomen, pregnancy, more than three months, inguinal hernia and spinal.