{"id":750,"date":"2014-05-22T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/?p=750"},"modified":"2017-05-08T22:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:24:25","slug":"vipreet-naukasana-reverse-boat-posture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/vipreet-naukasana-reverse-boat-posture\/","title":{"rendered":"Vipreet Naukasana &#8211; Reverse boat posture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Vipreet\u00a0means reverse, nauka means boat. This posture is also called salabhasana in Iyenger yoga.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Variation 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2208\" src=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Variation 2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2209\" src=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vipreet-Naukasana-Reverse-boat-posture-2-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Lie on the floor on the stomach, stretch your arms back along the sides of your body.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Exhale and lift the head, chest and legs off the floor simultaneously as high as possible. The hands shouldnt be placed on the ground. Only the abdominal front portion should rest on the floor.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Contract the butt and stretch the thigh muscles. Keep both leg fully extended and straight and touching at the thigh knees and ankle.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Stay in the posture for as long you can with normal breathing.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><strong>Benefits:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Helps in digestion, relieves gastric troubles and flatulence.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Its practice relieves pain in the lumbar, the sacral region and lower back.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Good for slip disc.<\/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;\">Lumbar spondilitis, high blood pressure, heart conditions<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Look for other postures in our <a href=\"http:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/asana-index\/\">asana directory<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vipreet\u00a0means reverse, nauka means boat. This posture is also called salabhasana in Iyenger yoga. Variation 1 Variation 2 Steps: Lie on the floor on the stomach, stretch your arms back along the sides of your body. Exhale and lift the head, chest and legs off the floor simultaneously as high as possible. The hands shouldnt&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/vipreet-naukasana-reverse-boat-posture\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vipreet Naukasana &#8211; Reverse boat posture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2209,"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":[70,69],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-yoga-postures","category-backbends","category-core-strengthening","tag-reverse-boat-posture","tag-vipreet-naukasana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranayoga.co.in\/asana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}