{"id":1317,"date":"2014-06-29T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2017-05-07T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T06:33:04","slug":"sarpasana-snake-posture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/sarpasana-snake-posture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarpasana &#8211; Snake Posture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarp = Snake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2137\" src=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarpasana-Snake-Posture.jpg\" alt=\"Sarpasana-Snake-Posture\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarpasana-Snake-Posture.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarpasana-Snake-Posture-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sarpasana-Snake-Posture-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lie flat on the stomach, with the chin on the floor.<\/li>\n<li>Inter lock your fingers behind your back.<\/li>\n<li>Inhale, use the lower back muscles, raise the chest as far as possible from the floor, keep the shoulders pulling away from the ears.<\/li>\n<li>Stretch the hands further back, and raise the arms as high as is comfortable, squeeze the shoulder\u00a0blades together and open up the chest.<\/li>\n<li>Work on lifting the chest. Imagine someone is pulling your hands back.<\/li>\n<li>Hold the position, keeping the breaths long and slow. Gradually increasing the time<\/li>\n<li>Exhale and lower your body down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helps to correct the posture, particularly round shoulders.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthens the spine<\/li>\n<li>Stretches chest and lungs, shoulders, and abdomen<\/li>\n<li>Stimulates abdominal organs like liver and kidney, stimulates appetite, alleviates constipation.<\/li>\n<li>Soothes sciatica<\/li>\n<li>Therapeutic for asthma as it deepens breathing.<\/li>\n<li>It tones the ovaries and the uterus and helps in menstrual and some other gynaecological problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contraindications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peptic ulcer,<\/li>\n<li>Hernia,<\/li>\n<li>Intestinal tuberculosis<\/li>\n<li>Hyperthyroidism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarp = Snake Steps: Lie flat on the stomach, with the chin on the floor. Inter lock your fingers behind your back. Inhale, use the lower back muscles, raise the chest as far as possible from the floor, keep the shoulders pulling away from the ears. Stretch the hands further back, and raise the arms&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/sarpasana-snake-posture\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sarpasana &#8211; Snake Posture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,136,146],"tags":[277,278,279],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-yoga-postures","category-backbends","category-core-strengthening","tag-sarpasana","tag-snake-pose","tag-snake-posture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}