The Healing Powers of Virasana, Yoga Pose

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[Music] hi everyone welcome to eard yoga my name is Esther and today I'd like to show you how verosa hero POS can heal um certain problems you've got in your body and um especially if those problems are um problems uh in your feet and knees and leg pain you know leg pain can come you think it may come from the hip um and at some point you might have pain all the way down the leg or in the calf localized pain and there can be so many different um ways you can approach it and there's also different reasons why it's there but this is a really good way to try and see if you can release it I've been starting to do this lately a bit and it's really helped some of um some of my pain in my legs that I got lately what you need is two blocks and you need a firm folded up blanket so it's quite High okay so and it really depends you know some of you may have to go a little bit lower some of you may have to go even higher than this so what happens is you're going to sit on your knees and trying to squeeze the blanket in you have to keep your hip Blocks close by to start with between your feet you're going to lean forward and try to squeeze the blanket in as high into your knees as you possibly can and then holding that you're going to lean gently back sit back and sit on your blocks and you can really feel the blanket pressing into the hamstrings the calf muscles this is also very good for the hamstrings it will loosen out your hamstrings and for me I can feel pressure now but I could definitely get a bit more so I could take one block away this block is too low for me so I will put this block up one notch and then see and then it's still a little away but I can slowly let the weight relax the leg muscles and the blanket so that at some point my sitting bones will find the block and this is different for everybody so you need to find your place where you need to be and this is quite intense so you can close your eyes it really dicks into the muscles you obviously don't want to overdo it either huh so it still needs to feel good and then you can stay here for about 5 minutes if you like I would say let's now start with stay for another minute a little bit longer so that in total we've been here for two and then you can build that up yourself at home at other times so it's really helpful to release hamstring troubles outer leg troubles uh even problems in your feet in your ankles in your heels and while you're here you may as well meditate so just close your eyes and be with your breath and except and so now my sitting Bones have landed on the Block so I receive some support back you do keep your back nice and straight without overarching your feet are pointing straight back and for example I can very clearly feel that there's much more tightness in the back of my right leg than left leg which I know is true because that's also the leg that hurts me now and then so you can really feel how that works and this is quite on the level of fascia so you can also with your knuckles massage out the fascia of your feet the skin of your feet if you want to have something to do okay this is about 2 minutes a little longer I'd say um feel free to stay here a little bit longer it really really will help your legs you'll feel quite nice afterwards and repeat you have to repeat this regularly okay thank you for joining me Namaste I'm going to stick around here for a little bit longer before I move so see you next [Music] time