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Cockerel Pose
Also Known as Kukutasana
About the Cockerel Pose / Kukutasana
This is a seated type of asana. It is somewhat difficult pose to perform.
Benefits of Cockerel Pose / Kukutasana
Performing the pose has the following benefits:
* The pose helps you workout your shoulders, elbows and wrists.
* It helps you workout your neck and hands.
* It helps treat deformity and stiffness in legs. It also improves the strength of the legs.
* The pose helps in the purification of your 'Nadis'.
* It reduces the muscular pain in your legs.
* It helps improve your digestive system. Claims have been made that stomach worms can be killed by this pose.
* According to some yogis, the pose also helps in the alleviation of discomfort caused during menstruation cycles.
How to do the Cockerel pose?
Step 1: Come to sit on the yoga mat in the Padmasana pose.
Step 2: Place your hands in between your calves and your thighs. Gradually squeeze your hands with your calf and thigh muscles. Attempt to touch the palms to the floor. The palms should face forward and the fingers should be spread in a fan like position.
Step 3: Now comes the most difficult part. You have to relax the grip of calf and thigh muscles on the hands in order to allow them to actually move up the hands. You would also have to bring the legs as close as possible to the abdomen.
Step 4: Bend forward your torso a bit on top of your thighs. Gradually lift your torso as well as your legs fully off the floor by straightening out your arms and pushing the palms into the floor.
Step 5: Stay in the position for about 5 to 10 seconds.
Step 6: Retrace your steps to come out of the pose.
More about Cockerel Pose or Kukutasana
A word of caution!
The pose is not to be performed if you are suffering from any of the following ailments/injuries:
* Wrist injury
* Shoulder injury
* Elbow injury
* Gas problems
* Diarrhea
Modifications
Those who have layers of fat in the abdominal region would find the pose somewhat difficult to perform. However, there is not much that can be done in order to help such people. What you can eventually opt for in this case is to do this pose for as long as it is possible for you. As your body grows used to it, you can increase the time spent in the pose. Meanwhile, you have to make an attempt to lose that fat on stomach and legs.
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