A blog on yoga pose provides the readers with valuable solution about various posture. Today we will discuss about the Hero Pose (Virasana). We serves a guide for the beginners or practitioners and offering the detailed explanation and alignment of poses. So, we will come to know about the What is Hero Pose in this blog. This is the Modern Yoga exercise to practice. This pose requires strength and balance.
What is Hero Pose (Virasana)?
This an intermediate sitting kneeling position in modern yoga as exercise. Hero Pose (Virasana) is the relaxing meditative asana. It will help to stretches the knees, thighs, and ankles. Hero is someone that doing the right things and admires the courage. This will helps to relax the mind and the body. It is the meditation yoga pose that enhance the awareness and breathing. This pose done with the empty stomach as it put pressure on the bowels.
Virasana, the name of this asana come from the the sanskrit words where, Vira means,” man or hero” and Asana means, “posture”. This sitting posture is like the Veer Hanuman. Lord Hanuman sit in this posture as it reflect about his devotion. Sitting posture as he paid his respects to Lord Rama and Sita.
This is the simple kneeling in the knee pose act as courage, trust and surrender. This is act of being the real Hero. Virasaan is one of the pose that gives us inner strength and a feeling of devotion for the others.
How to Perform Virasana?
This is the simple yoga pose that help to give a nice stretch to knee and thighs. This is the best pose to practice meditation.
Here are the steps of guidance of the Hero Pose are discuss below:
- To start this pose, sit on the floor in Dandasana.
- Your legs are extended in front of you and hands are resting by the sides of your body.
- Now, inhale and fold your right knee back to the side of your right buttock.
- Then, fold the left knee back and place it to the side of the left buttock.
- Your ankles are externally rotated and active.
- Make sure that your ankle are face behind.
- Feel the pressure to the heels and knees.
- Bring the knees closer and your arms is resting on the thigh.
- The final posture requires the knees to touch each other.
- Hold this pose for few seconds.
- Keep your mind and body relax.
- Then, slowly release the posture and come back to the starting position.
Benefits of Hero Pose (Virasana)
Hero Pose will gives you both physical and mental benefits. This pose helps to calms the mind and body.
Let’s explore the benefits of the Hero Pose (Virasana):
- Stretches, strengthen and lengthen: The kneeling position of the pose targets the muscles of inner legs and lower body. This stretch helps increase flexibility knees, thighs and pelvis area. It can help relieve tightness and improve range of motion in the hips and legs.
- Relieves Tension: This sitting meditative position helps release tightness in the hip flexors, knees and the lower back. It is particularly helpful for those who experience discomfort and tightness knees. It also helps to stretches the leg and relieves pain in lower body.
- Calms the Mind: As you hold the pose can help to calm the nervous system. It promotes relaxation and reduces stress. This pose helps to reduce the stress, tension and anxiety.
- Root Chakra Activation: The grounding nature of this pose align the body, it helps to activate the Root Chakra. This pose enhances our inner stability and balance.
- Improves the circulation: This pose helps to stimulates the circulation of blood and energy to the entire body. The flow of prana is believed to be the first stage of healing the body from within. Folding the knees and thigh helps in the flow of blood across the legs and this makes these areas flexible.
- Enhances Mental Focus and Concentration: This pose helps to improve the focus and attention. This pose helps to develop the sense of relaxation, focus and calm the mind.
