{"id":735,"date":"2014-05-24T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/?p=735"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T06:12:45","slug":"urdhva-kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/urdhva-kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture\/","title":{"rendered":"Urdhva Kukkutasana &#8211; upward rooster posture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Urdhva means upwards, kukkut means a rooster. There are several ways to come into this posture like headstand and handstand, but for the ones who have a <a href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/padmasana-lotus-posture\/\">tight lotus posture (padmasana)<\/a>\u00a0the best way to do the posture is from <a href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/utpluthih-uprooting-tolasana-scale-posture\/\">utpluthih<\/a>, the steps for the same is described below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2190\" src=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Urdhva-Kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture.jpg\" alt=\"Urdhva-Kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Urdhva-Kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Urdhva-Kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Urdhva-Kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Steps:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Sit in <a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/padmasana-lotus-posture\/\">lotus posture (padmasana)<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Place\u00a0your hands by the sides of your thigh and lift your body up into\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/utpluthih-uprooting-tolasana-scale-posture\/\">utpluthih<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Inhale and swing your knees back and place it on the upper arm, trying to bring the knees as close to the armpits as possible.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Stay here for as long\u00a0as possible and then swigh your knee back into\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/utpluthih-uprooting-tolasana-scale-posture\/\">utpluthih<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Benefits:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Its a good stretch for the hips and\u00a0the spine.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">It helps in strengthening the wrists and arms.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">It strengthens and tones various muscles and organs in the abdominal region.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Contraindications:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Pregnancy<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Carpal tunnel syndrome<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">High blood pressure<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Heart disease<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Cerebral thrombosis<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Knee and ankle injury<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Look for other postures in our\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" title=\"asana\" href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/asana-index\/\">asana directory<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urdhva means upwards, kukkut means a rooster. There are several ways to come into this posture like headstand and handstand, but for the ones who have a tight lotus posture (padmasana)\u00a0the best way to do the posture is from utpluthih, the steps for the same is described below. &nbsp; Steps: Sit in lotus posture (padmasana).&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/urdhva-kukkutasana-upward-rooster-posture\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Urdhva Kukkutasana &#8211; upward rooster posture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2190,"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":[138,140,145],"tags":[74,73],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-yoga-postures","category-arm-balancing","category-padmasana-group","tag-upward-rooster-posture","tag-urdhva-kukkutasana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}